Roland Longchamp

Expertise Adaptive controlRobust controlControl systems in mechatronics Roland Longchamp is Professor of Automatic Control and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree both from EPFL. He was appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow, first at the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, and then at the Decision and Control Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working in the areas of nonlinear systems, estimation theory and predictive control. He was with the Asea Brown Boveri Company in Turgi, Switzerland, involved in the field of on-line control of large power systems. He joined EPFL in 1983, where his current research interests include control of linear systems, adaptive control, robust control, with applications to mechatronic systems. He served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1991-1993 and as Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory for the periods 1986-1993 and 1997-2003. He is Editor of the EPFL Press Mechanical Engineering Series since 1996.COURSE MATERIAL Automatique I Automatique II Commande avancée CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS Data-driven Controller TuningModel-based Control Design Using the Polynomial ApproachEDUCATION Diploma, Electrical Engineering, EPFL, 1968-1973Ph.D., Automatic Control, EPFL, 1973-1978FULL LIST OF PHD GRADUATES PhD Thesis MISCELLANEOUS Current Student Projects Roland Longchamp received in 2004 the Best Teacher Award from the School of EngineeringPROFESSIONAL COURSE Lecturer, Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, 1973-1978Postdoctoral Fellow, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, 1978-1979Postdoctoral Fellow, Decision and Control Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980-1981System Engineer, Asea Brown Boveri, Turgi, 1981-1983Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, since 1983RESEARCH INTERESTS OVERVIEW Control of linear systemsAdaptive controlRobust controlControl of mechatronic systemsPUBLICATIONS Commande numérique de systèmes dynamiques Vol. I & IIby Roland Longchamp Third edition (2010) Publications available at EPFL Infoscience Publications available at IEEE Xplore Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Denis Gillet, Olivier Pierre Chételat, Yves Piguet, Thomas Baumann, Karine Rausis, Friedhelm Altpeter, Martin Dimmler, David Hoover, Babak Sedghi, Pierre Huguenin, Daniel Garcia, Marc Kunze, Mark Edward John Butcher, Gorka Galdos Sanz de Galdeano, Basile Graf, David Ingram