Roland Longchamp
Nationality: Swiss
Expertise
Adaptive control
Robust control
Control systems in mechatronics
Roland Longchamp is Professor of Automatic Control and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree both from EPFL. He was appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow, first at the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, and then at the Decision and Control Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working in the areas of nonlinear systems, estimation theory and predictive control. He was with the Asea Brown Boveri Company in Turgi, Switzerland, involved in the field of on-line control of large power systems. He joined EPFL in 1983, where his current research interests include control of linear systems, adaptive control, robust control, with applications to mechatronic systems. He served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1991-1993 and as Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory for the periods 1986-1993 and 1997-2003. He is Editor of the EPFL Press Mechanical Engineering Series since 1996.
COURSE MATERIAL
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
EDUCATION
Diploma, Electrical Engineering, EPFL, 1968-1973
Ph.D., Automatic Control, EPFL, 1973-1978
FULL LIST OF PHD GRADUATES
MISCELLANEOUS
Current Student Projects
Roland Longchamp received in 2004 the Best Teacher Award from the School of Engineering
PROFESSIONAL COURSE
Lecturer, Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, 1973-1978
Postdoctoral Fellow, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, 1978-1979
Postdoctoral Fellow, Decision and Control Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980-1981
System Engineer, Asea Brown Boveri, Turgi, 1981-1983
Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, since 1983
RESEARCH INTERESTS OVERVIEW
Control of linear systems
Adaptive control
Robust control
Control of mechatronic systems
PUBLICATIONS
Model-Free Precompensator Tuning Based on the Correlation Approach
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2007.916315.Fixed-Order Controller Design for Systems with Polytopic Uncertainty Using LMIs
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2007.914301.A Statistical Analysis of Certain Iterative Learning Control Algorithms
International Journal of Control. 2008. DOI : 10.1080/00207170701484851.Robust Control of Polytopic Systems by Convex Optimization
Automatica. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2007.01.022.Robust Controller Design by Linear Programming with Application to a Double-Axis Positioning System
Control Engineering Practice. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.06.002.Robust PID controller tuning with specifications on the infinity-norm of sensitivity functions
IEE Proceedings Control Theory and Applications. 2007. DOI : 10.1049/iet-cta:20050369.Data-Driven Controller Tuning Using Frequency Domain Specifications
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2006. DOI : 10.1021/ie0513043.Two-Degree-of-Freedom l2-Optimal Tracking with Preview
Automatica. 2004. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2003.09.003.Infoscience
Model-Free Precompensator Tuning Based on the Correlation Approach
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2007.916315.Fixed-Order Controller Design for Systems with Polytopic Uncertainty Using LMIs
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2007.914301.A Statistical Analysis of Certain Iterative Learning Control Algorithms
International Journal of Control. 2008. DOI : 10.1080/00207170701484851.Robust Control of Polytopic Systems by Convex Optimization
Automatica. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2007.01.022.Robust Controller Design by Linear Programming with Application to a Double-Axis Positioning System
Control Engineering Practice. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.06.002.Robust PID controller tuning with specifications on the infinity-norm of sensitivity functions
IEE Proceedings Control Theory and Applications. 2007. DOI : 10.1049/iet-cta:20050369.Data-Driven Controller Tuning Using Frequency Domain Specifications
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 2006. DOI : 10.1021/ie0513043.Two-Degree-of-Freedom l2-Optimal Tracking with Preview
Automatica. 2004. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2003.09.003.Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Denis Gillet, Olivier Pierre Chételat, Yves Piguet, Thomas Baumann, Karine Rausis, Friedhelm Altpeter, Martin Dimmler, David Hoover, Babak Sedghi, Pierre Huguenin, Daniel Garcia, Marc Kunze, Mark Edward John Butcher, Gorka Galdos Sanz de Galdeano, Basile Graf, David Ingram