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Name : GROGNARD
Given names : Frédéric David Gilbert 
Date of birth :August 28th, 1973
Place of birth : Uccle (Belgium)

Nationality : Belgian
Chargé de Recherche in the COMORE Project at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
 

 

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 .
Theme: Nonlinear control design for wastewater treatment


 
 

 


 

 

Research Interests - Publications - Professional Experience - Education - Languages - Hobbies

 
 

Research Interests


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
 


 

Publications



Conference papers
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).

Journal papers
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.

PhD. Thesis
F. Grognard, "Control of constrained systems: closed-loop, open-loop, and hybrid solutions", Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), October 2001, 138pp.

 

Professional Experience


 
10/97- 09/01  Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique  
10/01- 09/02  Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble  
10/02- 12/02  Université catholique de Louvain
    Post-doctoral fellow at CESAME.
 
01/03- .....  Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique  

 

Education


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)
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).

 

Languages


French : mother language
English : fluent 
Dutch : when I'm in good form 

 

Hobbies


Squash
Cycling (road)
Skiing
Hiking in the Ardennes or the Alps with Sylvie, Christophe, and Madeline.  



 
 
 
 

 

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