ROOM 3   Opening Ceremony and Plenary Prof  Gildas Besançon, PhD
Channel: Cinvestav - Ingeniería Eléctrica
Date: 2021-11-11

Opening Ceremony and Plenary ​

 Title: From observers macro scopes to microscopes applications​

Abstract​

State observers have proved to be very efficient tools for information reconstruction in dynamical systems since R. E. Kalman introduced them at the end of 1950's. They have been constantly developed and improved from that time on, with a growing number of successfull applications. After recalls on their various features and interests, this talk will more particularly focus on applications in the field of so-called scanning probe microscopy, which appeared in the 1980's with the invention of Scanning Tunneling Microscope by Nobel Price winners G. Binnig and H. Rohrer, and which has been attracting an increasing attention even in the control community for the past two decades, within the challenging context of submicronic research.​

Short-Bio​

Gildas Besançon  received an MSc in Electrical Engineering in 1993, and a PHD degree in Control in 1996, both in Grenoble, France. After a stay at Rome University La Sapienza, Italy, he joined the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1998. He got the French degree of ‘Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches’ in 2002, and became a full professor at Grenoble INP in 2010, to which he is still currently affiliated. Between 2010 and 2015, he also held a nationally distinguished position at the Institut Universitaire de France, and remains part of its honorary members. He serves in various IFAC and IEEE committees as well as editorial boards, and has been continuously active - and still is, in various industrial projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 270 international peer-reviewed papers, and about 20 book chapters. He is also the editor of the Springer book ‘Nonlinear observers and applications’, and he supervised or co-supervised more than 20 PHD students. His research activities are held at the Control and Diagnosis Department of Gipsa-lab - where he was the head of a research group on 'nonlinear and complex systems' between 2011 and 2020, and these activities address various topics about such systems, with a special interest in observer issues, and applications in energy, hydraulics, or micro/nano-sciences.​