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  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to modeling and control of mechanical, robotic, and networked systems

Overview

Carlos Canudas de Wit is affiliated with the Grenoble Institute of Technology in France. Their research focuses predominantly on engineering, with a total of 59 publications in this area. Key subfields include Control and Systems Engineering, Transportation, Computer Networks and Communications, Automotive Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to traffic, transportation, and control systems. Specific topics include:

  • Traffic control and management
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

They have contributed extensively to academic literature with papers published in notable venues such as IFAC-PapersOnLine, the 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the European Journal of Control.

Recent scholarly works include the following publications:

  • A Continuation Method for Large-Scale Modeling and Control: from ODEs to PDE, a Round Trip (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Multi-directional continuous traffic model for large-scale urban networks (2022), Transportation Research Part B Methodological
  • Average State Estimation in Large-Scale Clustered Network Systems (2020), IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
  • Model Reduction Based Approximation of the Output Controllability Gramian in Large-Scale Networks (2020), IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
  • Analysis of the Impact of Variable Speed Limits on Environmental Sustainability and Traffic Performance in Urban Networks (2022), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Denis Nikitin
  • Liudmila Tumash
  • Muhammad Umar B. Niazi
  • Paolo Frasca
  • Alain Y. Kibangou

Among their recognitions, they were named an IEEE Fellow in 2016 for contributions to modeling and control of mechanical, robotic, and networked systems.

Best Publications

  • A new model for control of systems with friction

    C. Canudas de Wit;H. Olsson;K.J. Astrom;P. Lischinsky

  • A survey of models, analysis tools and compensation methods for the control of machines with friction

    Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry;Pierre Dupont;Carlos Canudas de Wit

  • Friction Models and Friction Compensation

    Henrik Olsson;Karl Johan Åström;Carlos Canudas de Wit;Magnus Gäfvert

  • Theory of Robot Control

    Carlos Canudas de Wit;Georges Bastin;Bruno Siciliano

  • Exponential stabilization of mobile robots with nonholonomic constraints

    C. Canudas De Wit;O. J. Sørdalen

  • Adaptive friction compensation with partially known dynamic friction model

    C. Canudas de Wit;P. Lischinsky

  • Adaptive friction compensation in dc-motor drives

    C. Canudas;K. Astrom;K. Braun

  • Adaptive friction compensation in robot manipulators: low velocities

    C. Canudas de Wit;P. Noël;A. Aubin;B. Brogliato

  • Dynamic tire friction models for vehicle traction control

    C. Canudas de Wit;P. Tsiotras

  • NONLINEAR CONTROL DESIGN FOR MOBILE ROBOTS

    C. Canudas de Wit;H. Khennouf;C. Samson;O. J. Sordalen

  • Sliding observers for robot manipulators

    C. Canudas De Wit;J.-J. E. Slotine

  • Eco‐driving in urban traffic networks using traffic signals information

    Giovanni De Nunzio;Carlos Canudas de Wit;Philippe Moulin;Domenico Di Domenico

  • Trajectory tracking in robot manipulators via nonlinear estimated state feedback

    C.C. de Wit;N. Fixot;K.J. Astrom

  • Dynamic Friction Models and Control Design

    C. Canudas de Wit;H. Olsson;K.J. Astrom;P. Lischinsky

  • Observability conditions of induction motors at low frequencies

    C. Canudas De Wit;A. Youssef;J.P. Barbot;P. Martin

  • On the Construction of Stabilizing Discontinuous Controllers for Nonholonomic Systems

    H. Khennouf;C. Canudas De Wit

  • Exponential control law for a mobile robot: extension to path following

    O.J. Sordalen;C. Canudas de Wit

  • Adaptive Kalman filtering for multi-step ahead traffic flow prediction

    Luis Leon Ojeda;Alain Y. Kibangou;Carlos Canudas de Wit

  • Adaptive eccentricity compensation

    C.C. de Wit;L. Praly

  • Switching and PI control of walking motions of planar biped walkers

    E.R. Westervelt;J.W. Grizzle;C. Canudas de Wit

  • Adaptive control of robot manipulators via velocity estimated feedback

    C. Canudas de Wit;N. Fixot

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Johan Åström
Karl Johan Åström Lund University
Bruno Siciliano
Bruno Siciliano University of Naples Federico II
Bernard Brogliato
Bernard Brogliato Grenoble Alpes University
Karl Henrik Johansson
Karl Henrik Johansson Royal Institute of Technology
Roberto Horowitz
Roberto Horowitz University of California, Berkeley
Luigi Villani
Luigi Villani University of Naples Federico II
Sandro Zampieri
Sandro Zampieri University of Padua
Anton S. Shiriaev
Anton S. Shiriaev Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jingang Yi
Jingang Yi Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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