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Name : GROGNARD
Given names : Frédéric David Gilbert
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Date of birth :August 28th, 1973
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Place of birth : Uccle (Belgium)
Nationality : Belgian
Chargé de Recherche in the COMORE Project at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
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More interesting pictures of me and my family, can be seen at my pictures
page.
Address
Professional (UCL,CESAME)
CESAME
Avenue G. Lemaitre, 4
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIQUE
Tel. : +32.(0)10.47.80.41
Fax : +33.(0)10.47.21.80
Email: grognard@auto.ucl.ac.be
Engineering degree in Applied Mathematics, June 1997.
Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences, October 2001.
Post-doctoral fellow at CESAME
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Theme: Nonlinear control design for wastewater treatment |
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Research
Interests
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Stabilization
of structured nonlinear systems (in feedback or feedforward form).
Control
of cement mills .
Low-gain
control of linear systems with bounded input .
Time
optimal control of linear systems with bounded input..
Orbital
stabilization of nonlinear systems.
Nonlinear
control design for wastewater treatment
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Publications
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Conference papers
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F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin, L. Praly, "Nested linear low-gain design
for semiglobal stabilization of feedforward systems", IFAC NOLCOS'98 Symposium,
Enschede (July 1998), pp. 830-835.
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin, "Slow control for global stabilization
of feedforward systems with exponentially unstable Jacobian linearization,
37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa (December 1998), pp.
1452-1457.
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin, "Improved performance of low-gain control
for linear systems with saturated input", MTNS 2000, Perpignan (June 2000).
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin, "Control
of linear systems with affine constraints: a gain-scheduling approach",
39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney (December 2000), pp.
4785-4790.
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, J. De Doná, "Dynamical
systems that compute time-optimal switchings", IFAC NOLCOS 2001 Symposium,
St Petersburg (July 2001).
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, "Global
stability of a continuous-time flow which computes time-optimal switchings",
40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando (December 2001),
pp. 3826-3831.
F.
Grognard, C. Canudas de Wit, "Design
of orbitally stable zero-dynamics for a class of nonlinear systems",
41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas
(December 2002).
J. Perram, A. Shiriaev, C. Canudas-de-Wit, F. Grognard, ``Explicit for
mula for a general integral of motion for a class of
mechanical systems subject to holonomic constraint'', 2nd IFAC Workshop on
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Seville (avril
2003).
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, "Computation of time-optimal switchings for linear systems with complex poles", European Control Conference 2003, Cambridge (September 2003).
Y. Chitour, F. Grognard, G. Bastin, "Stability analysis of a metabolic model with sequential feedback inhibition", First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003), Rome, Italy (August 2003).
F. Grognard, Y. Chitour, G. Bastin, "Equilibria and stability analysis of a branched metabolic network with feedback inhibition," accepted to the 9th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB9), Nancy, France (March 2004).
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Journal papers
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F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin, "Global
stabilization of feedforward systems with exponentially unstable Jacobian
linearization" Systems & Control Letters, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 107-115,
1999.
F.
Grognard, F. Jadot, L. Magni, G. Bastin, R. Sepulchre, V. Wertz, "Robust
stabilization of a nonlinear cement mill model", IEEE Trans. on Automatic
Control, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 618-623, 2001.
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin,"Improving
the performance of low-gain designs for bounded control of linear systems",
Automatica, vol. 38, no.11, pp. 1777-1782, 2002..
F. Grognard, C. Canudas de Wit, "Design
of orbitally stable zero-dynamics for a class of nonlinear systems",
accepted to Systems & Control Letters.
Y. Chitour, F. Grognard, G. Bastin, "Stability analysis of a metaboli
c model with sequential feedback inhibition,'' submitted to the Journal of Mathematical Biology.
F. Grognard, Y. Chitour, G. Bastin, "Equilibria and stability analysis of a branched metabolic network with feedback inhibition," submitted to Mathematical Biosciences.
F.
Grognard, R. Sepulchre, "Global stability of a continuous-time flow which
computes time-optimal switchings", in progress.
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PhD. Thesis
Professional
Experience
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Education
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1992-1997 |
Université catholique de
Louvain [Louvain-la-Neuve]
Engineering in Applied Mathematics
Master Thesis: Nested linear low-gain design for semiglobal stabilization
of feedforward systems (Supervisors: R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin and L. Praly)
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1997-2001 |
Université
catholique de Louvain [Louvain-la-Neuve]
Ph.D. Thesis: Control of constrained systems: closed-loop, open-loop,
and hybrid solutions (Supervisors: R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin).
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Languages
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French
: mother language |
English
: fluent |
Dutch
: when I'm in good form |
Hobbies
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Squash |
Cycling
(road) |
Skiing |
Hiking
in the Ardennes or the Alps with Sylvie, Christophe, and Madeline. |
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