Ahmad Hably, PhD HDR

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Associate Professor - HDR
GIPSA-lab, PSD pole
Contact: ahmad.hably@grenoble-inp.fr
Phone: +33 (0)4 76 82 63 87

Research Address: Ampere Building B, Office B131
BP 46, Domaine Universitaire
38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, FRANCE

Teaching Address: GreEn-ER ENSE3
21 avenue des Martyrs CS 90624
38031 Grenoble cedex 1, France

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News

  • (October 2024)

    • Prix de l'innovation pédagogique de l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie AUF (For more information on this nice prize).

    • A new video on a tutorial on MPC for linear systems (Video link). I think any control engineer will used it once in his life :-).

    • Participation in the “Semaine mondiale de la Francophonie scientifique (SMFS)” in Toulouse.

    • Examination in the PhD defense of Massimiliano Maurizio De Benedetti (POLIMI - ITALY on 14-10-2024).

    • Reviewer of the Phd defense of Tareg Mohammed (POLIMI - ITALY on 14-10-2024).

    • A seminar on mobile robotics activities given in POLIMI - ITALY.

    • Welcome to Miguel Arpa Perozo who will join the STRAD project as research engineer.

  • (September 2024)

    • Co-organization of the International Summer School of Automatic Control Grenoble, MOBROB 2024, (Website of the school) and my comments on it in a short video as usual (Out of control! Ep2).

    • Our paper entitled “Magnus-Effect Winged Hybrid UAV System : Improved Energy Efficient and Autonomy Through Control Allocation Strategy” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

    • Welcome to Ethan Niddam who will do his last PhD year at Grenoble in the STRAD project.

  • (July 2024)

    • Our paper entitled “Design of a Suspended Manipulator with Aerial Elliptic Winding” has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

    • I gave a workshop in the IEEE R8 Student and Young Professional Congress website

    • The first episode on “Out of control!” is posted on YouTube. It talks about “incontrol” podcast on ECC 2024 discussion panel - see it here

    • A new video tutorial useful for mobile robotics projects is prepared by Rayan Abdul El Samad Skaff and posted on YouTube. How to branch and code an IMU module - video.

    • Two conference papers have been presented in the international conference CODIT 2024 in Malta.

    • Presentation in the 2ème journée nationale des roboticiens à l’heure des défis écologiques Problématiques de contrôle pour les éoliennes aéroportées

    • Participation in the CSI of Sacha Clavel (Gipsa-lab 1A), Ahmed Meligy (G2elab 2A), Monir Ashrafi (G2elab 2A), Kenza Khedache (Lirmm 1A).

  • (June 2024)

    • New videos have been created on two student projects a PV cleaner drone (PVC video), a mobile robot with GPS (AORGPS video).

    • A video tutorial explaining how to branch and code a GPS - video.

  • (May 2024)

    • Explanation on the engineering project with the Université Saint Joseph (USJ) Lebanon - read here

    • Participation in the CSI of Corentin Jacquier (G2elab 2A).

Scientific interests

My research is related mainly to Control, Optimization, Energy systems and Robotics with applications in:

  • Airborne wind energy.

  • Vehicle to grid (V2G) and smart grids.

  • Mobile robotics and drones.

  • Automatic control educational systems.

Short bio

  • 2020 - today: Head of Master MARS.

  • 2020 -2024: Head of COPERNIC Team.

  • 2017: HDR, Habilitation à diriger des recherches, from Comue UGA (GIPSA-lab). Title: “Non-conventional energy systems: Modeling, control and integration to power grids”.

  • 2008- today: Associate professor in ENSE3 of G-INP.

  • 2007-2008: ATER, Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche, in Université Montpellier II et LIRMM.

  • 2007: PhD in automatic control from INPG (GIPSA-lab). Title: “Approches bornées pour la commande des drones”.

  • 2003-2004: Master 2 Recherche en automatique – productique - INPG (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble).

  • 2003: Electrical and control engineer from Lebanese University.

Some educational responsibilities
  • 2019 - today: Head of international master MARS (Mobile Autonomous Robotic Systems).

  • 2012-2019: Responsible Relations Internationales (RI) For the option ASI of ENSE3.

  • 2017-2019: Responsible second year students ASI (50 students).

  • 2015 - today: Responsable of three courses (50 students).

  • 2015 - today: Co-responsible of engineering projects (300 students).

  • 2015 - today: Organizer of Innovation Challenge ENSE3 (300 students).

  • 2011 - today: Co-responsible of collective projects (150 students).

  • 2008 - 2012: Responsable of technological platform AIDA.

PhD boards

Harun Turker (G2eLab, 20-12-2012), Examinateur.
Jonatan Alvarez (GIPSA-Lab, 07-11-2017), Examinateur.
Baptiste Cadalen (IMS Bordeaux, 14-09-2018), Rapporteur.
Mohamed Irfanulla MOHAMED ABDULLA (LS2N Laboratory, Nantes, 11-10-2023), Rapporteur.
Tarso Kraemer Sarzi Sartori (GSCOP, 17-10-2023), Examinateur.

Conferences committees

International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing countries (REDEC), International Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC), ICMEM’2017.

(Main) Projects
  • Research projects:

2019-2022: “aVEnir” National project. Partners: Groupe Renault, Groupe PSA, Schneider Electric, Total EV Charge, Groupe EDF (filiale IZIVIA), Dreev, GIREVE, Trialog, Electric 55 Charging, Université Grenoble Alpes, Aix Marseille Université.
2017-2020: “m2M-Grid” Joint programming initiative ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus. Partners : Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola ,CEA-INES, Göteborg Energi, G2eLab, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Göteborg Energi.

  • Industrial projects:

2018: “HRDRONE” Projet Out of labs de la SATT Linksium.
2018-2020: “HRDRONE” Maturation Drone Hybride, SATT Linksium project.

  • Educational projects:

2017-2019: IDEX formation project “RobotMe”.
2018-2020: IDEX formation project “MRSA”.