Name: Azgal Abichou

Title: Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Tunisia Polytechnic School

Address: Tunisia Polytechnic School, Rue El-Khawarizmi, B.P. 743, La Marsa 2078, Tunisia

Office Telephone: (+216) 71 774 611 Ext. 277

Fax: (+216) 71 748 843

Email: azgal.abichou@ept.rnu.tn

Education: Ph.D., Mathematics and Control, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France, 1993; Master of Science, Numerical Analysis, Université Paris-Sud (Centre d'Orsay), Paris, France, 1990; Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud (Centre d'Orsay), Paris, France, 1989.

Research Interests: Control of Mechanical Systems with Bifurcation, Control of flexible structures, Control of Under-actuated Mechanical Systems, Robot Control, Control of Constrained Mechanical Systems.

Research Publications:

Recent Articles published international journals

1.      Stabilization of trim trajectories of a blimp in ascent and descent maneuvers, to appear at International Journal of Control, 2005.

2.      Trajectory generation and tracking of an autonomous mini rotorcraft with streamlined rotors, International Journal of control, automation and systems, Vol. 3, No 1, pp. 87-99, 2005.

3.      Modeling and Control of mini-flying machines, Series: Advances in Industrial Control, Ed. Castillo, Lozano, Dzul, 2005, ISBN: 1-85233-957-8.

4.      Position and attitude control of an under-actuated autonomous airship, International Journal of Differential Equations and Application, Vo. 8, No 3, pp. 231-255, 2003.

Recent Papers presented at international conferences

1.      Modeling and control of an X4 bi-directional  rotors, CLAWAR 2005, London.

2.      Vision-based stabilization of the double inverted pendulum fat output, CLAWAR 2005, London

3.      Smooth control of an X4 bi-directional rotors flying robot, ROMOCO 2005, Poland.

4.      Trajectory generation and tracking of mini-rotorcraft,  ICRA 2005, Spain.

5.      Stabilization with motion planning of a four rotors mini-rotorcraft for terrains missions, ISDA 2004, Hungary.

6.      Longitudinal and steering stabilization of an under-actuated autonomous vehicle, SYROCO 2003.

7.      Longitudinal-lateral stabilization of an under-actuated autonomous vehicle, ICAR 2003.