Nicolas Marchand

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Head of Control Systems Department
Deputy director of GIPSA-lab
Chargé de Recherche CNRS at
GIPSA-lab, Control Systems Department
Contact: Nicolas.Marchand@gipsa-lab.fr
Phone: +33 (0)4 76 82 62 28
Fax: +33 (0)4 76 82 63 88
GPS: 45°11’36.79“N, 05°45’58.35”E
Address: ENSE3, Building B, Office B257
BP 46, Domaine Universitaire
38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, FRANCE

Scientific interests

My research is focused on two main topics:

  • Control and stabilization of biomimetic robots and more specifically micro flying artificial insects. The weight constraints and therefore the computation and energy limitations, the highly nonlinear dynamics coupled with a difficult identification of parameters renders this problem very challenging.

  • Control theory for computer sciences. Computer science and microelectronics is a relatively new area for control theory. My work is focused on the control of systems on chips with asynchronous interconnections and server systems.

PhD Students

Current:

  • MANECY Augustin (oct. 2011-today) coll. S. Viollet (ISM) “Bio inspired visual control: application to the control of UAVs”

  • MARIE-MAGDELEINE Artem (fev. 2010-today) Coll. with R. Fortes-Patella (LEGI) “Transfer function caracterization of cavitating pumps”

Former:

  • MALRAIT, Luc (oct. 2007-jun. 2012) now at Mathworks in UK “Modeling and control of data based web servers” Coll. with S. Bouchenak (LIG)

  • DURAND, Sylvain (dec. 2007-jan. 2011) “Modeling and control of the computational power of embedded platform”

  • RAFEI, Maher (oct. 2005-dec. 2008) now assistant professor at Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon “Modeling and control of an eel robot”

  • RIFAI, Hala (oct. 2005-nov. 2008) now assistant professor at Université Paris Est Créteil and Laboratoire LISSI, France “Modeling and control of insect like flapping wing robots”

  • LOUVAT, Benoit (oct. 2004-fev. 2008) now in a private company in Canada “Real time image analysis for a visual servoing system embarked on a plane”

  • GUERRERO, Jose-Fermi Castellanos (oct. 2004-jan. 2008) now assistant professor at Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico “Rigid bodies attitude estimation and bounded control, application to a mini quadrotors”

  • HABLY, Ahmad (oct. 2004-dec. 2007) now assisant professor at Grenoble-INP, France “Automatic control for UAV's”

Professional experience

Since 2011: Head of Control Systems Department, Deputy director of GIPSA-lab
2008-2011: Head of SYSCO-Team
Since 2002: Chargé de recherche CNRS
2000-2002: Assistant professor at the University Paris-Sud and Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Orsay, France
1999-2000: Temporary teaching and research attaché (ATER) at the technological university institute of Villeurbanne, France
1996-1999: PhD student at Grenoble-INP
1995: Engineer from Grenoble-INP