Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

The team organized the international ERC Scale-FreeBack workshop on “Analysis and Control of Large-Scale Complex Networks”, Grenoble, September 10-11th, 2018 (http://scale-freeback.eu/workshop-on-analysis-and-control-of-large-scale-complex-networks-10-11-sept-2018-grenoble/).

M. L. Delle Monache organized a mini-symposium on “Modélisation et gestion du trafic routier”, 44e Congrès National d'Analyse Numérique, May 2018 (with P. Goatin, Acumes team).

M. L. Delle Monache organized a workshop on “Traffic flow control via PDE techniques”, CDC, December 2018 (with Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis, Delphine Bresch-Pietri and Rafael Vazquez).

Team members organized the following invited sessions at the European Control Conference ECC 2018, Cyprus, June 2018:

• “Model reduction and control in large-scale networks” (P. Frasca and C. Canudas de Wit)

• “Multi-agent network games” (F. Garin, with S. Grammatico from Delft Univ. of Technology)

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

C. Canudas de Wit has served as Associate Editor at Large for the American Control Conference ACC 2019.

P. Frasca has served as Associate Editor in the conference editorial boards for the 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems and the 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS).

F. Garin is Associate Editor in the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board (this year, she served for CDC 2018, ACC 2019) and Associate Editor in the European Control Association (EUCA) Conference Editorial Board (this year, she served for ECC 2019).

H. Fourati was member of:

• the International Program Committee (IPC) of international conferences STA’18, ICCAD’18, ICITE’18.

• the International Program Committee (IPC)/Associate Editor for contributed papers for the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA’18), Copenhagen (Denmark), Aug. 2018;

• the Technical Program Committee (TCP) for the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN’18), Nantes (France), Sep. 2018;

• the committee of the reviewing phase of the 21st Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT’18), Braunschweig (Germany), Sep. 2018.

Reviewer

Team members have been reviewers for several conferences, including the most prestigious ones in their research area: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC, European Control Conference ECC, American Control Conference ACC, European Signal Processing Conference, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS, IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys), IFAC Workshop on Control for Transportartion Systems (CTS), IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

C. Canudas de Wit is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Networks Systems IEEE-TCNS (since June 2013) and Editor of the Asian Journal of Control AJC (since 2010).

P. Frasca is Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (Wiley) (since February 2014), Associate Editor of the IEEE Control System Letters (from February 2017) and Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control (Wiley) (since January 2017).

H. Fourati is Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control (Wiley) (since January 2016) and of the Open Transportation Journal https://benthamopen.com/TOTJ/editorial-board. He has also been guest editor of the special issue “Multi-sensor Integrated Navigation and Location based services applications” for International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), 2017-2018 (http://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-dsn/dsn-1-msinalbsa/dsn) and lead guest editor of the special issue “Recent Advances on Data Fusion, Estimation in Navigation and Control” for Asian Journal of Control (AJC), 2018.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Team members have been reviewers for several journals, including the most prestigious ones in their research area: IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Automatica, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Systems and Control Letters, Int. Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Elsevier Transportation Research Part B, IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentations and Measurements, IEEE Sensors journal, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, AIMS Networks and Heterogeneous Network (NHM), Wiley Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (MMAS), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMMA), Journal of Nonlinear Science and Applications (JNSA), Journal of the Franklin Institute, AMS Mathematical Reviews, Asian Journal of Control.

Invited Talks

• C. Canudas de Wit, “Model and Control of Large scale systems", plenary talk at IFAC-NecSys'18, Groningen, The Netherlands, August 2018.

• C. Canudas de Wit, “Control of Large scale Urban networks: a new perspective", plenary talk at IFAC-CTS'18, Savona, Italy, June 2018

• C. Canudas de Wit, “Scale-FreeBack", pitch talk at Transport Research Arena, Vienna, Austria, April 2018 .

• C. Canudas de Wit, “Towards Scale-Free Control of Large-scale Traffic Networks” and M. L. Delle Monache, “Micro-macro traffic modeling for estimation and control”, First SoPhy International Workshop on Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Transport Systems Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2018.

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Can big data help traffic flow control?”, Workshop: Traffic flow control via PDE Techniques, IEEE-CDC Conference, Miami Beach, USA, December 2018.

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Control and estimation of traffic flow using autonomous vehicles”, Joint meeting of the Italian Mathematical Union, the Italian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Polish Mathematical Society, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2018.

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Riemann solver for a macroscopic double-lane roundabout model”, 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Savona, Italy, June 2018.

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Control of traffic: from ramp metering to autonomous vehicles”, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, USA, May 2018.

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Control of traffic flow: from ramp metering to autonomous vehicles”, Seminar of the department of mathematics, University of Alabama, USA, April 2018

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Two-dimensional macroscopic model for large scale traffic network”, Incontro Scientifico su Modellizzazione ed Analisi di Problemi di Folle e Traffico, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, April 2018.

• M. L. Delle Monache, “Les mathématiques cachées du trafic routier”, ISN Conference, Académie de Grenoble, Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, France, March 2018.

• P. Frasca, “The harmonic influence in social networks and its distributed computation by message passing”, IXXI, ENS Lyon, July 3, 2018

• P. Frasca, “Randomization and quantization in opinion dynamics”, IRSTEA, Clermont-Ferrand, March 14, 2018.

• F. Garin, “Input-and-state observability of structured systems”, Paths in Mathematical Systems Theory workshop, Torino (Italy), Feb. 2018.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Team members participate to the following technical committees of IEEE Control Systems Society and of the International Federation of Automatic Control:

• IEEE-CSS Technical Committee “Networks and Communications Systems” (P. Frasca and F. Garin);

• IFAC Technical Committee 1.5 on Networked Systems (P. Frasca and C. Canudas de Wit);

• IFAC Technical Committee 2.5 on Robust Control (P. Frasca);

• IFAC-TC7.1 Automotive Control (C. Canudas de Wit);

• IFAC-TC7.4 Transportation systems (C. Canudas de Wit).

C. Canudas de Wit is member of the advisory board (2017-21) of the project ”Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Transport Systems” supported by the Swedish Strategic Research Foundation, KTH Sweden.

P. Frasca is member of the “Comité de Direction du GdR MACS ”, term 2019-2023.

P. Frasca reviewed project proposals for the ERC and the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research; A. Kibangou reviewed project proposals for ANR, NRF (South-African research agency), and ERC.

Research Administration

C. Canudas de Wit is a member of the COST-Inria-RA (Conseil d’Orientation Scientifique et Technologique, Inria Rhône-Alpes), since 2017.

F. Garin is member of two local committees at Inria Rhône-Alpes: Comité des Emplois Scientifiques (post-docs, délégations) since 2015 and Comité des Études Doctorales (PhD grants CORDI-S) since 2016.

A. Kibangou is:

• Elected member of the research department MSTIC (mathematics, information and communication sciences) of Univ. Grenoble Alpes

• Co-head of the PCS (Pervasive Computing Systems) action of Persyval-Lab

• Academic director (L2) IUT1 (GEII)

• Co-head for higher studies opportunities (Responsable poursuite d'études) (IUT1-GEII)

H. Fourati is

• Member of the Department of Electrical Engineering Council, IUT1 Grenoble, France (2018-2021)

• Member of CNU61 (Conseil national des universités, Génie informatique, Automatique et Traitement du Signal) since 2016.

• In charge of communication mission and visits to high school within the Department of Electrical Engineering, IUT1 Grenoble, France (2017-present).