Events and Seminars

19/06/2025 / 14h – 15h: Scientific Committee meeting (Visio)
  • Talk 1: Nonlinear Spectral Modeling from Data, (George Haller, Professor at ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Talk 2: Vehicle speed estimation (Denis Murier)
  • Talk 3: Identification de systèmes LTI pour la simulation de procédés industriels (Jalil Lahrach)
  • Talk 4: Sensor Fusion for Accurate Vehicle Attitude Estimation (Paco Lardy-Nugues)
  • Talk 5: Modélisation à partir des données du procédé de calandrage de la gomme (Thomas Dominguez)
17/04/2025 / 14h – 15h: Scientific Committee meeting (Visio)
  • Talk: Singular perturbation for coupled PDEs admitting different time-scales (Swann Marx, CNRS Researcher, LS2N, Nantes)
20/03/2025 / 14h – 16h: Scientific Committee meeting (Visio)
  • Talk 1: Recursive total least squares: Application to model-based vehicle mass estimation (Hugo Koide)
  • Talk 2: Real time tire grip potential estimation for safer autonomous driving (Maxime Boulanger)
  • Talk 3: A first introduction on CACC system – current work on variable time- headway for heterogeneous platoon (Maelle Haudrechy)
13/02/2025 / 14h – 16h: Scientific Committee meeting (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
  • 10h – 12h: Operational Committee meeting (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
  • 14h – 16h: Steering Committee meeting (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

Ongoing PhD theses

  • Maëlle Haudrechy (Thèse Présidence Grenoble-INP). Thesis started in October 2024. Provisional title: contrôle coopératif flottes véhicules
  • Maxime Boulanger, (CIFRE grant). Thesis started in December 2023. Provisional title: Estimation temps-réel des capacités d’adhérence d’un véhicule automobile.
  • Hugo Koide (CIFRE grant). Thesis started in September 2023. Provisional title: Model learning with uncertainty certificates. Application to data-based tire dynamics.

Ongoing Master theses

  • Paco Lardy-Nugues. Six month project started in March 2025. Title: Development of a vehicle attitude estimation algorithm (roll, pitch and yaw angles)
  • Denis Murier. Six month project started in March 2025. Title: Development of a vehicle speed estimation algorithm
  • Thomas Dominguez. Six month project started in April 2025. Title: Data-driven experimental modeling: application to the calendering process
  • Jalil Lahrach. Six month project started in March 2025. Title: Systems identification for industrial process simulation and control

Preliminary Research

PhD Theses
  • Mohamed Elsherbiny (CIFRE grant). Thesis defended on January 22, 2025 (duration: 3 years). Title: Adaptive tire parameter estimation for enhanced vehicle dynamics: real-time solutions for tire slip ratio, effective rolling radius, and longitudinal stiffness.
  • Taleb Bou Hamdan (CIFRE grant). Thesis defended on January 15, 2025 (duration: 3 years). Title: Predictive control of time-varying systems: application to the rubber calendering process.
  • Vincent Mussot (CIFRE grant). Thesis defended on March 2, 2022 (duration: 3 years). Title: Tire friction potential estimation combining Kalman filtering and Monte Carlo Markov Chain model learning.
Master Theses
  • Saba Al Bacha (M2 project defended in September 2023). Title: Modeling and control of nonlinear processes: application to rubber calendering.
  • Romain Tomasso (M2 project defended in September 2022). Title: Tire slip estimation using Kalman filters.
  • Taleb Bou-Hamdan (M2 project defended in September 2021). Title: Modeling and control of calendering: application to the tire manufacturing process.
  • Prabu Palaniappan (M2 project defended in September 2021). Title: Tire slip estimation for connected vehicles.
  • Leslie Nguan (M2 project defended in September 2018). Title: Development of a real-time estimation algorithm for detecting changes in adhesion levels.
Postdoctoral Research
  • Alireza Fakhrizadeh Esfahan Project: "Physically-based data-driven modeling for tire parameter estimation," from June 2018 to December 2019.