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Current Teaching

Lecturer at Polytech'Nice in the Electrical Engineering Department of the following classes:

System Modeling and Automatic Control

  • Mathematical Modeling of Dynamic Systems, in the 4th year (prefinal year of School of Eng. = Master level 1)
  • Digital Control, in the 4th year (prefinal year of School of Eng. = Master level 1)

  • Industrial Control, in the 4th year (prefinal year of School of Eng. = Master level 1)

  • Practical Lab Sessions in Automatic Control in the 4th year (prefinal year of School of Eng. = Master level 1)


  • ArmProp

    I have created this scale model for the lab sessions. 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:

    1. model the physics behind this system,
    2. simulate it with Matlab or Scilab,
    3. design a controller to stabilize the bar at any desired angle, and finally
    4. implement the controller in C on a small microcontroller (Pic16F877 or STM32F4).



    Robotics and Estimation

  • Estimation for Autonomous Systems (LS, RLS, KF, EKF), in the pre-final year (4th year, prefinal year of School of Eng. = Master level 1).

  • Robotics (architecture, sensors, sensor-fusion with applications to UAVs), in the final year (5th year, Final year of School of Eng. = Master level 2).
  • stm32f411

    Practical sessions are based on the STM32F411 boards featuring a full IMU.




    Past Teaching

    Former lecturer at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, of the following classes:

    Modeling of Dynamic Systems, IDSC, ETH Zurich


    Signals and Systems, IDSC, ETH Zurich


    Control Systems 2, IDSC, ETH Zurich


    Navigation Systems for UAVs, ASL, ETH Zurich


    Guidance Systems for UAVs, ASL, ETH Zurich


    Recursive Filtering and Estimation, IDSC, ETH Zurich.

    Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes (I3S) de Sophia-Antipolis - UNS - CNRS
    2000, route des Lucioles - Les Algorithmes - bât. Euclide B - BP 121 - 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - France
    Tél. +33 4 92 94 27 01 - Fax : +33 4 92 94 28 98 - www.i3s.unice.fr

    Book releases

    ISBN : 978-1-84882-560-4 ISBN : 978-7-118-07723-0 ISBN : 978-90-481-9706-4


    Paper Download

    arrow.png Find and download most of my scientific papers on Research Gate.