PhD Students and Post-doctoral positions

Current students

  • A. Vivien starting in 2024,

    • joint PhD ENSTA Bretagne/Flinders University,

    • funded by Naval Group Pacific

    • co-supervised with Prof. Paulo Santos and Prof. Karl Sammut

    • Robust bio-inspired learning-based control of groups of robots

  • A. Wanctin sarting in 2023

    • joint PhD ENSTA Bretagne and Flinders University co-supervised with Prof. Paulo Santos and Prof. Karl Sammut

    • AID and Fliders University

    • Machine Learning applied to proactive COLREGs

  • K. Lagattu starting in 2022

    • joint PhD ENSTA Bretagne and Flinders University (co-supervised with Karl Sammut, Paulo Santos, Eva Artusi and Gilles Le Chenadec)

    • CIFRE with Naval Group

    • Fault Detection Control of underwater robots with Machine Learning.

  • D.M. Kaleel starting in 2021

    • joint PhD ENSTA BretagneQueen Mary University of London with DSTLDGA funding, co-supervised with Prof. Kaspar Althoefer

    • Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment

    • webpage

  • K. Karam starting in 2021

    • PhD at ENSTA Bretagne and Balamand University (Libanon), co-supervised with Prof. Ali Mansour and Prof. Mohamad Khaldi)

    • UAV Routing Protocol for Crop Health Management.

  • A. Haidar starting in 2021

    • PhD at ENSTA Bretagne and AUCE (Libanon), co-supervised with Dr. Abbass Nasser

    • Intelligent Traffic Mechanisms for Optimizing Path Planning and Adapting Control of UAV

  • A. Olivier starting in 2020

    • PhD at ENSTA Bretagne in cooperation with CHRU Brest, co-supervised with Prof. Ali Mansour, Prof. Luc Bressollettes and Dr. Clement Hoffmann;

    • Deep Learning et Méthodes Statistiques pour la caractérisation d’une Thrombose Veineuse Profonde par échographie et élastographie

Former students

  • Q. Ferdinand (2023)

    • PhD at ENSTA Bretagne (co-supervised with Gilles Le Chenadec, Quentin Oliveau and Panagiotis Papadakis)

    • CIFRE with Naval Group

    • Incremental Learning for Classification of Objects of Interest

    • webpage

  • T. Chaffre (2022)

    • PhD at ENSTA Bretagne and Flinders University (co-supervised with Karl Sammut, Paulo Santos, Estelle Chauveau and Gilles Le Chenadec)

    • funding from Region Bretagne, South Australia and Naval Group

    • Adaptive Control of underwater robots with Machine Learning

    • webpage

  • A. Majeb (2022)

    • PhD at ENSTA Bretagne and AUCE (Libanon), co-supervised with Abbass Nasser and Hassan Harb

    • Sensing-based Self-Reconfigurable Strategies for Autonomous Modular Robotic Systems.

    • webpage

  • Y. Sola (2021)

    • PdD funding by DGA and Region Bretagne (ARED) - co-supervided with Gilles Le Chenadec and Jordan Ninin

    • Contributions to the development of Deep Reinforcement Learning-based controllers for AUV

    • webpage

  • H. Kolher (2021)

    • Master student from Sorbonne Universite

    • Reinforcement Learning for UUV Control

  • A. Lefort - abandon

    • Commande robuste structurée appliquée au pilotage des navires de données expérimentales incertaines

    • PhD with Naval Group Research - funding with Naval Group and ANRT - 2019 (co-supervied with Jordan Ninin)

  • A. Laidani

    • PhD at AVCIS Research Laboratory, Department of Automatics, USTO-MB, Oran, Algeria

  • R. Keyetieu

    • Calibration of multi-beam echo sounder systems by inverse methods

    • PhD funding by CIDCO France - 2018 (co-supervised with Pierre Bosser)

  • X. Wang

    • joint PhD with Ocean University of China (in Qingdao) - 2018 in China and 2021 in France (co-supervised with Benoit Zerr and Helene Thomas)

  • D. Monnet

    • PhD with DGA and Brest funding - 2018 (co-supervied with Jordan Ninin)

    • Post Doc in LS2N, Nantes (2020)

  • J.L. Rosendo

    • PhD with Universidad de La Plata (Argentina) -2019

  • B. Huard

    • Associate Professor at Universite de Poitier (homepage)

    • Post Doc at OSM for 3i Project - PhD

  • Y. Rui

    • Associate Professor at Ocean University of China (in Qingdao)

    • PhD 2015

  • N. Fezans

  • C. Sadikou

    • Automatic Control Freelance Engineer CS CONTROLCOM (linkedin profile)

    • MSc 2005

  • M. Abbas-Turki

    • Associate professor - SATIE at ENS Cachan (homepage)

    • PhD 2005

  • O. Voinot

    • Engineering Manager at Moog

    • PhD 2002

  • A. Constantinescu

    • now with CASI (Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institute)

    • PostDoc 2002

  • A. Maloum - PostDoc 2001

PhD and HDR committees

  • 2022 - PhD committee of A. Milot, Algorithms and architectures for the control of zone exploration by a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles, INSA, University of Toulouse.

  • 2022 - PhD committee of A. Mitriakov as President, Modèles d’interaction physique de robots compagnons, IMT Atlantique.

  • 2021 - PhD committee of A. Shehu as reviewer and President, Commande robuste non linéaire de robots sous marins, Université de Montpellier.

  • 2021 - PhD committee of O. Tortorici as reviewer, Conception et contrôle automatique d’un ombilical instrumenté pour robots sous-marins, Université de Toulon.

  • 2021 - PhD committee of A. Bourdelle as reviewer, Contributions méthodologiques à la modélisation et à la compensation des ballottements d’ergol pour le contrôle en attitude des véhicules spatiaux, Université de Toulouse.

  • 2020 - PhD committee of M. Trehin, Pilotage automatique des bateaux volants: algorithmes dynamiques et multicritères, Université Bretagne Sud.

  • 2020 - PhD committee of N. Michel, Invariant set design for the constrained control of a quadrotor, Université Paris-Saclay.

  • 2019 - HDR committee of L. Burlion as reviewer, Commande et observation non linéaires des systèmes aéronautiques et spaciaux, Université de Toulouse.

  • 2018 - PhD committe of H. El Fawal, Machine-to-Machine Congestion Mechanism, Université Bretagne Loire.

  • 2018 - HDR committee of C. Pittet as reviewer, Le contrôle d'attitude des satellites, support et projet de recherche en automatique, Université de Toulouse.

  • 2016 - PhD committee of H. Zeberi as reviewer, Hinfinity Linear Parameter Varying Controllers Order Reduction. Application to semi-active suspension control, Université Haute-Alsace.

  • 2003 - PhD committee of P. Langouët Sur la stabilité locale des systèmes linéaires soumis à des actionneurs limités en amplitude et en dynamique, Université de Toulouse 3.