Nicolas Petit

Projects

Students

Publications

Teaching

Editorship

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Projects

Autonomous air vehicles
Constrained optimal trajectory generation
HCCI Diesel and Variable Valve Timing Engine Control
Artificial Bird
Rotary wing UAV
Distributed magnetometry positioning and navigation systems
Post-treatment for automotive engines
Blending systems
Process control
Oil wells modeling and control

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Students PhD-candidates

Delphine Bresch-Pietri	Pierre-Jean Bristeau
Florent Di Meglio	Eric Dorveaux

Former graduate students

Visitors

Fady Assassa 06.08 - 12.08 (RWTH Aachen)
Eric Dorveaux 04.08 - 09.08 (Supelec)
Clément Ponssard 05.08 - 07.08 (ENSTA)
Olivier Renaud 05.08 - 07.08 (ENSTA)
Pierre-Jean Bristeau 04.07 - 09.07 Awarded Grand Prix d'Option de l'Ecole Polytechnique 2007 (joint with David Vissière, École Polytechnique) 04.08 - 09.08 (SupAero)
Knut Graichen 01.07 - 12.07 postdoc (ISD, University of Stuttgart)
Dong Eui Chang 10.03 - 11.04 postdoc (CDS - CalTech)
Domitilla Del Vecchio 09.03 - 11.03 (CDS - CalTech)
William Dunbar 05.02 - 07.02 (CDS - CalTech)
Oskar Nilsson 04.03 - 08.03 (Lund LTH)
Tobias Neckel 04.03 - 08.03 (École Polytechnique)

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Publications

Journals

Conferences

1. T. Leroy, J. Chauvin, and N. Petit, "Transient Burned Gas Rate Control on VVA equipped Diesel Engines", in 6th IFAC Symposium Advances in Automotive Control 2010 (to appear)
2. F. Di Meglio, G.-O. Kaasa, N. Petit, and V. Alstad, "Model-based control of slugging flow: an experimental case study", in Proc. of the American Control Conference 2010 (to appear)
3. E. Dorveaux, D. Vissière, and N. Petit, "On-the-field calibration of an array of sensors", in Proc. of the American Control Conference 2010 (to appear)
4. F. Di Meglio, G.-O. Kaasa, and N. Petit, "A first principle model for multiphase slugging flow in vertical risers", in Proc. of the 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2009 (pdf)
5. E. Dorveaux, D. Vissière, A. P. Martin, N. Petit, "Iterative calibration method for inertial and magnetic sensors", in Proc. of the 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2009 (pdf)
6. P.-J. Bristeau, and N. Petit, "Trajectory estimation for a hybrid rocket", in 2009 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference (to appear)
7. M. Hillion, J. Chauvin, and N. Petit,"Combustion control of an HCCI Diesel engine with cool flame phenomenon", in Proc. of European Control Conference 2009 (pdf)
8. T. Leroy , J. Chauvin, and N. Petit,"Controlling In-cylinder Composition on Turbocharged Variable-Valve-Timing Spark Ignition Engines", in Proc. of European Control Conference 2009 (pdf)
9. O. Lepreux, Y. Creff, and N. Petit,"Warm-up Strategy for a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst", in Proc. of European Control Conference 2009 (pdf)
10. C. Ponssard, K. Graichen, N. Petit and J. Laurent-Varin,"Ascent optimization for a heavy space launcher ", in Proc. of European Control Conference 2009 (pdf)
11. P.-J. Bristeau, Ph. Martin, E. Salaun, and N. Petit,"The role of propeller aerodynamics in the model of a quadrotor UAV", in Proc. of European Control Conference 2009 (pdf)
12. O. Lepreux, Y. Creff, and N. Petit,"Model-based Control Design of a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst", in Proc. of the ADCHEM 2009, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes 2009 (pdf)
13. M. Hillion, H. Buhlbuck, J. Chauvin, and N. Petit,"Combustion Control of Diesel Engines Using Injection Timing", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2009 (pdf)
14. T. Leroy, M. Bitauld, J. Chauvin, and N. Petit,"In-cylinder Burned Gas Rate Estimation and Control on VVA Diesel Engines", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2009 (pdf)
15. E. Dorveaux, D. Vissière, A. P. Martin, and N. Petit, "Timestamping for an array of low-cost sensors" in Proc. of the IFAC workshop on programmable devices and embedded systems 2009 (pdf)
16. K. Graichen, N. Petit, A. Kugi, "Transformation of optimal control problems with a state constraint avoiding interior boundary conditions" in Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2008 (pdf)
17. M. Hillion , J. Chauvin, and N. Petit, "Open-loop Combustion control of a Spark-Ignited Engine", in Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2008 (pdf)
18. T. Leroy, J. Chauvin, and N. Petit, "Controlling Air and Burned Gas Masses of Turbocharged VVT SI Engines", in Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2008 (pdf)
19. M. Hillion , J. Chauvin, and N. Petit, "Controlling the start of combustion on an HCCI Diesel engine", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2008 (pdf)
20. O. Lepreux, Y. Creff, and N. Petit, "Motion Planning for a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst Outlet Temperature", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2008 (pdf)
21. T. Leroy, J. Chauvin, and N. Petit, "Airpath Control of a SI Engine with Variable Valve Timing Actuators", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2008 (pdf)
22. D. Vissière, and N. Petit, "An embedded system for small-scaled autonomous vehicles", in Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) 2008 (pdf)
23. K. Graichen, N. Petit, "A continuation approach to state and adjoint calculation in optimal control applied to the reentry problem", in Proc. of the 2008 IFAC World Congress (pdf)
24. K. Graichen, N. Petit, "Solving the Goddard problem with thrust and dynamic pressure constraints using saturation functions", in Proc. of the 2008 IFAC World Congress (pdf)
25. D. Vissière, P.-J. Bristeau, A. P. Martin, N. Petit, "Experimental autonomous flight of a small-scaled helicopter using accurate dynamics model and low-cost sensors", in Proc. of the 2008 IFAC World Congress (pdf)
26. M. Hillion, J. Chauvin, O. Grondin and N. Petit,"Active Combustion Control of Diesel HCCI Engine: Combustion Timing", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2008 (pdf)
27. D. Vissière, A. Martin, and N. Petit, "Using spatially distributed magnetometers to increase IMU-based velocity estimation in perturbed areas", in Proc. of the 46th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2007 (pdf)
28. F. Chaplais and N. Petit, "Inversion in indirect optimal control: constrained and unconstrained cases", in Proc. of the 46th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2007 (pdf)
29. J. Chauvin, and N. Petit, "Experimental control of Variable Cam Timing actuators", in Proc. of the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control 2007 (pdf)
30. J. Chauvin, A. Albrecht, G. Corde, and N. Petit, "Modeling and control of a Diesel HCCI engine", in Proc. of the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control 2007 (pdf)
31. T. Leroy, J. Chauvin, G. Corde, and N. Petit, "Motion planning control of the airpath of a S.I. engine with Valve Timing Actuators", in Proc. of the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control 2007 (pdf)
32. D. Vissière, A. Martin, and N. Petit, "Using magnetic disturbances to improve IMU-based position estimation", in Proc. of European Control Conference 2007 (pdf)
33. D. Vissière, D. E. Chang, and N. Petit, "Experiments of trajectory generation and obstacle avoidance for a UGV", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2007 (pdf)
34. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, and N. Petit, "Transient control of a Diesel engine airpath", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2007 (pdf)
35. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, and N. Petit, "Constrained motion planning for the airpath of a Diesel HCCI engine", in Proc. of the 45th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2006 (pdf)
36. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, Ph. Moulin, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Kalman Filtering for Real-Time Individual Cylinder Air Fuel Ratio Observer on a Diesel Engine Test Bench", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2006 (pdf)
37. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Experimental Motion Planning in Airpath Control for HCCI engine", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2006 (pdf)
38. L. Sinègre, N. Petit and P. Ménégatti,"Predicting instabilities in gas-lifted wells simulation", in Proc. of American Control Conference 2006 (pdf)
39. L. Sinègre, N. Petit and T. Saint-Pierre, "Active control strategy for density-wave in gas-lifted wells", in Proc. of the ADCHEM 2006, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (pdf)
40. J. Chauvin, N. Petit, P. Rouchon and G. Corde,"Periodic Input Observer Design: Application for Imbalance Diagnosis", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2006 (pdf)
41. J. Chauvin, N. Petit, P. Rouchon, Ph. Moulin, and G. Corde,"Six Degrees Crankshaft Individual Air Fuel Ratio Estimation of Diesel Engines for Cylinder Balancing Purpose", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2006 (pdf)
42. J. Chauvin, N. Petit, P. Rouchon, G. Corde and C. Vigild,"Air Path Estimation on Diesel HCCI Engine", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2006 (pdf)
43. L. Sinègre, N. Petit and P. Ménégatti, "Distributed delay model for density wave dynamics", in Proc. of the 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2005 (pdf)
44. L. Sinègre, N. Petit, P. Lemétayer, P. Gervaud and P. Ménégatti, "Casing-heading phenomenon in gas-lifted well as a limit cycle of a 2D model with switches", in Proc. of the 2005 IFAC World Congress (pdf)
45. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, Ph. Moulin, M. Castagné, N.Petit and P. Rouchon, "Real-Time Nonlinear Individual Cylinder Air Fuel Ratio Observer on a Diesel Engine",in Proc. of the 2005 IFAC World Congress (pdf)
46. D. E. Chang, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Time-optimal control of a particle in a dielectrophoretic system", in Proc. of the 2005 IFAC World Congress (pdf)
47. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, Ph. Moulin, M. Castagné, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Real-Time Combustion Torque Estimation on a Diesel Engine Test Bench Using Time-Varying Kalman Filtering",in Proc. of the 43rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2004 (pdf)
48. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, Ph. Moulin, M. Castagné, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Real-Time Combustion Torque Estimation on a Diesel Engine Test Bench Using an adaptive Fourier Basis Decomposition", in Proc. of the 43rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2004 (pdf)
49. J. Barraud, Y. Creff and N.Petit, "PI Controllers Performance for a Process Model with varying delay", in Proc. of UKACC Int. Control Conference 2004 (pdf)
50. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, Ph. Moulin, M. Castagné, N.Petit and P. Rouchon,"Observer Design for Torque Balancing on a DI Engine", in Proc. of Society Automotive Engine World Congress 2004 (pdf)
51. J. Chauvin, G. Corde, Ph. Moulin, M. Castagné, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Time-varying Linear Observer for Torque Balancing on a DI Engine", in Proc. of the 1st IFAC Symp. on Advances in Automotive Control 2004 (pdf)
52. T. Neckel, Ch. Talbot, and N. Petit,"Collocation and inversion for a reentry optimal control problem", in Proc. of the 5th Intern. Conference on Launcher Technology. 2003 (pdf)
53. F. Chaplais, and N. Petit,"Inversion in indirect optimal control",in Proc. of the 7th European Control Conf. 2003 (pdf)
54. W. B. Dunbar, N. Petit, P. Rouchon, Ph. Martin, "Boundary control for a nonlinear Stefan Problem", in Proc. of the 42nd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control. 2003 (pdf)
55. N. Petit, M. B. Milam, and R. M. Murray,"A new computational method for Optimal Control of a Class of Constrained Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations", in Proc. of the 2002 IFAC World Congress. (pdf)
56. N. Petit and P. Rouchon, "Flatness of Heavy Chain Systems",in Proc. of the 41st IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control. 2002 (pdf)
57. N. Petit, M. B. Milam, and R. M. Murray, "Inversion Based Trajectory Optimization", in 2001 IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems Design. (pdf)
58. M. B. Milam, N. Petit, and R. M. Murray, "Constrained Trajectory Generation for Micro-satellite Formation Flying", in 2001 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference. (pdf)
59. M. Fliess, Ph. Martin, N. Petit and P. Rouchon, "Active Restoration of a Signal by Precompensation Technique", in Proc. of the 38th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control. 1999 (pdf)
60. F. Dubois, N. Petit, and P. Rouchon,"Motion Planning and Nonlinear Simulations for a Tank Containing a Fluid", in Proc. of the 5th European Control Conf. 1999. (pdf)
61. N. Petit, Y. Creff and P. Rouchon,"Motion Planning for Two Classes of Nonlinear Systems with Delays Depending on the Control", in Proc. of the 37th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control. 1998. (pdf)
62. N. Petit, Y. Creff and P. Rouchon, "Delta-Freeness of a Class of Linear Systems", in Proc. of the 4th European Control Conf. 1997. (pdf)

Book chapters

• J. Chauvin, G. Corde, N. Petit and P. Rouchon, "Airpath strategy for experimental control of a Diesel HCCI Engine", in E-COSM – Rencontres Scientifiques de l’IFP – 2-4 Octobre 2006, Proceedings, pp. 111-119, 2006 (pdf)
• J. Chauvin, G. Corde, N. Petit and P. Rouchon,"Filtre de Kalman ou observateur de Luenberger nonlinéaire? Comparaison expérimentale sur des exemples issus du contrôle moteur", in Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique 2006
• N. Petit and P. Rouchon, "Théorie du contrôle non linéaire", in Science et Info Prépas Hors-Série 4, Tangente Sup Sciences POLE, pp. 60-67, 2002
• M. B. Milam and N. Petit,"Constrained Trajectory Generation for a Planar Missile", Research report, California Institute of Technology, Control and Dynamical Systems, 2001
• N. Petit, "Delay Systems. Flatness in Process Control and Control of some Wave Equations". PhD Dissertation, Ecole des Mines de Paris. (pdf) (ps.zip) (ps)

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Industrial applications