Current Teaching
Lecturer at Polytech'Nice in the Electrical Engineering Department of the following classes:Automatic Control
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Email: ducard@i3s.unice.fr
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This platform is called the "Balancing arm" designed and realized by G. Ducard. It is made of an aluminium bar pivoting around an axis on one end and actuated by a motor/propeller unit at the other end. The goal of this lab is to model the physics behind this system, to simulate it with Matlab or Scilab, to design a controller to stabilize the bar at any desired angle, and finally to implement the controller in C on a small microcontroller (Pic 16F877, MIcrochip).
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Mechatronics and Robotics
Mechatronics and Robotics (with applications to UAVs, Avionics), in the final year (5th year, Final year of School of Eng. = Master level 2).
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Past Teaching
Former lecturer at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, of the following classes:Navigation Systems for UAVs, ETH Zürich
I taught in Fall 2009 the "Navigation Systems" lecture as part of the lecture entitled: Unmanned Aircraft: Design, Modeling and Control (Autonomous System Lab, ETH Zurich). The current class content can be viewed here.
Guidance Systems for UAVs, ETH Zürich
I taught in Fall 2009 the "Guidance Systems" lecture as part of the lecture entitled: Unmanned Aircraft: Design, Modeling and Control (Autonomous System Lab, ETH Zurich). View content . The current class content can be viewed here.
Recursive Filtering and Estimation, ETH Zurich.
I taught in Spring 2009 at ETH Zurich, the theory and practice of (recursive-) least squares and (extended-) Kalman filters (KF, EKF) with practical applications, as part of the lecture entitled: "Recursive Filtering and Estimation." The current class content can be viewed here.
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