Section: Research Program

Applications

The application of the developed control and estimation algorithms for different scenarios in IoT is a priority for Non-A POST team. Participation in different potential applications allows the team to better understand the features of IoT and their required performances. A list of possible applications, partially already addressed in the team, is as follows:

• smart bivalve-based biosensor for water quality monitoring (ANR project WaQMoS): presence of persistent external perturbations, which are hard to measure, and important model uncertainty make application of conventional techniques complicated; another issue is consensus seeking between animals for a contamination detection;

• control and estimation for flying vehicles, e.g. quadrotors or blimps (1 PhD ONERA, 2 PhDs EC Lille): nonlinearity of the model and its uncertainty coupled with important aerodynamic perturbations have to be compensated by fast (finite- or fixed-time) and robust control and estimation algorithms;

• human behavior modeling and estimation with posterior design of algorithms for human-computer interaction (ANR project TurboTouch): robust finite-time differentiators demonstrate good estimation capabilities needed for prediction in this application;

• human physiological characteristics estimation (like emotion detection, galvanic skin response filtering, fatigue evaluation in collaborations with Neotrope and Ellcie Healthy): intelligent robust filtering and finite-time distributed estimation are key features in this scenario;

• path planning for autonomous vehicles taking into account behavior of humans (PhD CIFRE with SEQUEL team and Renault): application of interval estimation and prediction techniques to treat the uncertainty of the environment by reducing computational complexity of reinforcement learning;

• flow control (in the framework of ContrATech subprogram of CPER ELSAT): the case of control and estimation of a distributed-parameter system with very fast and uncertain dynamics, where finite-time solutions developed by Non-A POST team are necessary

Involvement in various real-world scenarios will allow Non-A POST to develop demonstrators of disposed technologies with application to IoT.