Section: Overall Objectives

Overall Objectives

Generally speaking, this project deals with non-smooth systems, control, modelling and simulation, with emphasis on

• dynamic systems, mostly mechanical systems with unilateral constraints, impacts and set-valued friction models (like Coulomb's friction), but also electrical circuits with ideal diodes and transistors Mos, sliding-mode controllers, biological neural networks, etc;

• numerical methods for nonsmooth optimization, and more generally the connection between continuous and combinatorial optimization.