Invited Speakers

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Kristin Y. Pettersen received the MSc and PhD in Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. She is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). She is Key Scientist at the CoE Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (NTNU AMOS) and co-founder of the NTNU spin-off company Eelume AS, where she was the CEO in 2015-2016. She is member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, and member of the Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Her research interests are in nonlinear control of mechanical systems with applications to robotics, with a special emphasis on marine robotics and snake robotics. (Slides of the Presentation)

Kenji Fujimoto received his B.E. and M.E. degrees and Ph.D. degree in Informatics from Kyoto University, in 1994, 1996 and 2001, respectively. He is a Professor at Kyoto University in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, Delft University of Technology, Groningen University and RIKEN. Prof. Fujimoto received the IFAC Congress Young Author Prize in the IFAC World Congress 2005 and SICE Pioneer Award in 2007. His research interest includes control of Hamiltonian/Lagrangian systems, model order reduction for nonlinear systems, optimal control based on classical mechanics, and statistical learning for dynamical systems. (Slides of the Presentation)

Pauline Bernard graduated in Applied Mathematics from MINES ParisTech in 2014. She joined the Centre Automatique et Systèmes of MINES ParisTech and obtained her PhD in Mathematics and Control from Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) in 2017. For her work on Observer design for nonlinear systems, she obtained the European PhD award on Control for Complex and Heterogenous Systems 2018. As a post-doctoral scholar, she then visited the Hybrid Systems Lab at the University California Santa Cruz, USA, and the Center for Research on Complex Automated Systems at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2019, she became an Assistant Professor at the Centre Automatique et Systèmes of MINES ParisTech, Université PSL, France. Her research interests cover the observation and output regulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems. (Slides of the Presentation)

Tarek Hamel is a Professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis since 2003. He received his Ph.D. degree in Robotics from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), France, in 1996.
After two years as a research assistant at the UTC, he joined the Centre d’Etudes de Mécanique d’Ile de France in 1997. He is IEEE Fellow and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, estimation and vision-based control with applications to Unmanned Robotic Systems. (Slides of the Presentation)

Airlie Chapman received the Ph.D. degree from the William E. Boeing Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2013. She received the M.S. degree in Mathematics from University of Washington (2013) and the M.S. degree and the B.S. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia (2008 and 2006). She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Chapman was awarded the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship and is a two-time recipient of the Amelia Earhart Fellowship. Her research interests are multi-agent dynamics, networked dynamic systems, data-driven control and graph theory with applications to robotics and aerospace systems. (Slides of the Presentation)

Pauline Pounds is an associate professor in mechatronics at the University of Queensland since 2012.  She completed her undergraduate in systems engineering in 2002 and PhD in robotics at the Australian National University in 2008.  She is a 2013 ARC DECRA Fellow, 2019 Advance Queensland TAS Senior Fellow, 2022 ATSE Batterham Medalist, and president of the Australian Robotics and Automation Association.  She specialises in unmanned aerial vehicle dynamics, propulsion, stability and control, with recent advances in legged locomotion and sensor module technology. (Slides of the Presentation)