PhD Thesis Offer

Member of the organization staff of the GTAA Evry (Groupe Thématique Automatique et Automobile) May 22-23 2012

Local arrangement co-chair of the internatinal conference IEEE ICNSC 2013 (Evry)

Co-chair of the invited session on motorcycle dynamics in MED'11 (Greece) with Said Mammar

Co-chair of the  session on fuzzy systems in ICNSC'13 (Evry) with Hichem Maaref



Research interests


My research interests include some theoretical and practical aspects of nonlinear dynamical systems. In my team (VASCO), we are invistigating some interesting topics:

  1. Observer and control design for nonlinear systems with Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy modeling (Stability, ISS, Set Invariance, Time delay, sampled data,...)
  2. Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of nonlinear systems
  3. Observer for T-S systems with unmeasurable premise variables
  4. Applications in biomedical and biological systems, vehicles and industrial systems (Cement mill) 

Observer and control design for nonlinear systems with T-S systems

This part concerns the developement of different algorithms for state and unknown input estimation and state/output feedback for nonlinear systems. Takagi-Sugeno modeling approach is then exploited. The main orientation of these works is the assumption that the weigthing functions depend, completely of partialy, on unmeasured or unknown parameters (as the unmeasured states) wich can represent a larger calss of nonlinear systems compared to the T-S models with known premise variables.

Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control

In practical situations, systems are often subject to actuator/sensor faults and/or system components. The objective of this topic is to provide tools and algorithms aiming to detect, to isolate and to estimate different faults (Diagnosis) by developing residual generators and fault tolerant controllers based on state and fault observers. 

Vehicle and motorcycle applications

The main objective in this part is th application of different control/observation and diagnosis algorithms in the field of vehicles and motorcycles. These algorithms aims to assist the riders or drivers:
  • Passive assistance: detect dangerous situations and alert the drivers (for example compute the maximal authorized longitudinal velocity in cornering situation).
  • Active assistance: detect dangerous situations, alert the drivers and generate an adequate control to avoid this situation (for example lane keeping)

Biomedical and biological applications

Biological systems have attracted many researchers and a new point of view is provided. This point of view aims to exploit the rich domain of automatic control and observation in order to control such systems. For example, the regulation of the sugar in the blood and the control of tumor growth  by optimal administration of the adequate drugs. Our study focuses on understanding the mechanism of cell self-controlling, migrations and mutations. This is in the purpose to develop different control strategies in the sense of drugs administration, in order to reduce for example the volume of a localized tumor or its migration.
 

Ongoing thesis


  • Sara IFQIR Ph.D. Student, October 2016-...
    • Thesis Topic: : Interval and event triggered observers : application for three wheeled vehicles 
    • Thesis supervision : Saïd Mammar, Naïma Ait Oufroukh and Dalil Ichalal
  • Pierre-Marie DAMON Ph.D. Student, 2015-...
    • Thesis Topic: : Motorcycle semi-active safety and control
    • Thesis supervision : Hichem Arioui, Saïd Mammar and Dalil Ichalal
  • Luc Meyer Ph.D. Student, 2015-... 
    • Thesis Topic: : State and Unknwon Input Observation in stochastic framwork.
    • Thesis supervision : Vincent Vigneron, Claire Vasiljevic and Dalil Ichalal

Ongoing master



Past PhD thesis

  • Zedjiga YACINE Ph.D. Student, (Université de Tizi-Ouzou / Université d'Evry) 2012-2016
    • Thesis Topic: : Vehicle lane keeping assistance.
    • Thesis supervision : Saïd Mammar, Naîma Ait-Oufroukh and Dalil Ichalal
  • Habib DABLADJI Ph.D. Student, 2012-2015
    • Thesis Topic: Observation and control of Motorcycles: toward a semi-active safety system
    • Thesis supervision : Hichem Arioui, Saïd Mammar and Dalil Ichalal
  • Chabane CHENANE Ph.D. Student, 2010-2014
    • Thesis Topic: : Motorcycle control and observation.
    • Thesis supervision : Saïd Mammar, Hichem Arioui and Dalil Ichalal

Master thesis

  • Hyan-Jun BAE Master Student, March 2016-September 2016
    • Thesis Topic: : Parameter identification in two wheeled vehicles 
    • Thesis supervision : Hichem Arioui and Dalil Ichalal
  • Houria CHAABNA Master Student, March 2016-September 2016
    • Thesis Topic: : Dynamic systems inversion and UIO for LPV systems 
    • Thesis supervision : Saïd Mammar, Naïma Ait Oufroukh and Dalil Ichalal
  • Sara IFQIR Master Student, March 2016-September 2016
    • Thesis Topic: : Interval observers for three wheeled vehicles 
    • Thesis supervision : Saïd Mammar, Naïma Ait Oufroukh and Dalil Ichalal
  • Nayef Naquib Master Student, february 2014-...
    • Thesis Topic: : Fault diagnosis of aerospace launcher
    • Thesis supervision : Claire Vasiljevic and Dalil Ichalal
  • Lyès Mellal Master Student, February 2013-June 2013 (Now PHD student)
    • Topic: : Model-based control and observation for immunotherapy and chemotherapy cancer treatement.
    • Master supervision : Dalil Ichalal, Lamri Nehaoua, Saïd Mammar
  • Ahmed IZIROUEL Master Student, February 2012-June 2012
    • Topic: : Control and observation of a ROV-observer.
    • Master supervision : Dalil Ichalal, Samir Otmane