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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 my family and me, can be seen at my  pictures page
 

Address

Professional (INRIA,COMORE, Office B210) 

INRIA Sophia-Antipolis 
2004 route des Lucioles 
BP 93 
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex 
FRANCE 

Tel. :   +33.(0)4.92.38.78.72 
Fax :   +33.(0)4.92.38.78.58 
Email: frederic.grognard@inria.fr
 
 

Engineering degree in Applied Mathematics, June 1997.
Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences, October 2001.


 
 

 


 

 

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



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", Systems & Control Letters, vol. 51, no.1, pp. 89-103, 2004. 

Y. Chitour, F. Grognard, G. Bastin, "Equilibria and stability analysis of a branched metabolic network with feedback inhibition," Networks and Heterogeneous Media, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 219-239, 2006. 

F. Grognard, O. Bernard, "Stability analysis of a wastewater treatment plant with saturated control," Water Science & Technology, vol. 53, no.1, pp. 149-157, 2006.

F. Grognard, F. Mazenc and A. Rapaport, "Polytopic Lyapunov functions for persistence analysis of competing species," Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 73-93, 2007. 

S. Nundloll, L. Mailleret, F. Grognard, "The effect of partial crop harvest on biological pest control ," Rocky Mountains Journal of Mathematics, vol. 38, no 5, pp. 1633-1661, 2008. 

S. Nundloll, L. Mailleret, F. Grognard, "Two models of interfering predators in impulsive biological control," to appear in Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2009. 

L. Mailleret, F. Grognard, "Global stability and optimisation of a general impulsive biological control model ," to appear in Mathematical Biosciences, 2009. 

S. Nundloll, L. Mailleret, F. Grognard, "Impulsive biological control with intra-specific predator competition: global stability and convergence," submitted to Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2009. 

P. Masci, F. Grognard, E. Benoit, O. Bernard, "Competitive exclusion in the generalized Droop model with N species," submitted to Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2009. 


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 formula 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). 

F. Grognard, Y. Chitour, G. Bastin, "Equilibria and stability analysis of a branched metabolic network with feedback inhibition," 9th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB9), Nancy, France (March 2004). 

F. Grognard, O. Bernard, "Stability analysis of a wastewater treatment plant with saturated control," 6th International Symposium on Systems Analysis and Integration Assessment (WATERMATEX 2004), Beijing, China (November 2004). 

F. Grognard, J.-L. Gouzé, "Positive control of Lotka-Volterra systems," 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic (July 2005). 

F. Grognard, F. Mazenc, A. Rapaport, "Polytopic Lyapunov functions for the stability analysis of persistence of compet ing species", joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference 2005, Sevilla, Spain (December 2005).

I. Ndiaye, J.-L. Gouzé, F. Grognard, "Etude d'un petit réseau métabolico-génétique par des techniques de systèmes monotones", RIAMS 2006 (Réseaux d'interactions : analyse, modélisation et simulation), Lyon, France, 2006..

P. Masci, O. Bernard, F. Grognard, "Continuous selection of the fastest growing species in the chemostat", 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, 2008.

S. Nundloll, L. Mailleret, F. Grognard, "Global Stability in a General Impulsive Biological Control Model with Harvest", 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, 2008.

P. Masci, O. Bernard, F. Grognard, E. Latrille, J.-B. Sorba and J.P. SteyerS. Nundloll, "Driving competition in a complex ecosystem: application to anaerobic digestion",European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.


Chapters in books

Y. Chitour, F. Grognard, G. Bastin, "Stability analysis of a metabolic model with sequential feedback inhibition", in "Positive Systems Proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003), Rome, Italy", Eds L. Benvenuti, A. De Santis and L. Farina, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS) 294, Springer Verlag, pp. 143-150.

F. Grognard, C. Canudas-de-Wit, "Virtual constraints for the orbital stabilization of the pendubot," in "Nonlinear and adaptive control: theory and algorithms for the user", Ed. A. Astolfi, Imperial College Press, pp. 115-145, 2005.

L. Mailleret, F. Grognard, "Optimal Release Policy for Prophylactic Biological Control", in " Positive Systems Proceedings of the second Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 06), Grenoble, France", Eds. C. Commault, N. Marchand, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS) 341, Springer-Verlag, p. 89-96, 2006.

F. Grognard, J.-L. Gouzé, H. de Jong, "Piecewise-linear models of genetic regulatory networks: theory and example", in "Biology and control theory: current challenges", Eds. I. Queinnec, S. Tarbouriech, G. Garcia, S. Niculescu, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS) 357, Springer-Verlag, p. 137-159, 2007.


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 
"Conseiller municipal" of Caussols and webmaster of the Site officiel du village de Caussols



 
 
 
 

 


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