Ahlem Sassi

Assistant professor in Automatic Control and Electrical Engineering
ESME

Overview of research area

The research interests of Ahlem Sassi encompass the theory and application of observers for linear and some nonlinear systems, especially systems with time delays.

Short biography

Ahlem SASSI received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the Nancy-Université, France, in 2018 and the B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the National School of Engineers of Gabes (ENIG), Tunisa in 2013. She was Temporarily Attached to Education and Research at Polytech Grenoble, 2018-2019 and from 2019 to 2022, she has been an assistant professor at IPSA, Lyon. She is currently working as asistant professor at the School of Engineering, ESME, Lyon since 2022.

Publications

• A. Sassi, I. Boussaada, S.-I. Niculescu, and M. Zasadzinski, Observer-based Controller Design for LTI SISO Systems with Feedback Delay. A Partial Pole Placement Approach, IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS), Udine, Italy, September 2024.
• A. Sassi, I. Boussaada, and S.-I. Niculescu, Some insights into partial pole placement method in observers design for time-delay systems, accepted for publication in Trends in Mathematics, Birkhauser, September 2024.
• C. Abdelaali, A. Brouri, F. Giri, A. Sassi, and A. Bouklata, Modeling and Adaptive Observer Design of Buck Power Converter with Transmission Delay, 12th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems (CPES), Rabat, Morocco, July 2024.
• A. Sassi, I. Boussaada, and S.-I. Niculescu, Reduced-Order Observer Design for Time-Delay Systems using Partial Pole Placement, 11th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC) 2023, Sousse, Tunisia, December 2023.
• A. Sassi, I. Boussaada, and S. Niculescu, Observer Design in LTI Time-Delay Systems Using Partial Pole Placement with Applications, Joint 8th IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control, 17th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, 5th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems, (Joint SSSC, TDS, LPVS 2022), through the Conference Manuscript Management System of Joint SSSC, TDS, LPVS 2022, Montreal, Canada, September 2022.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley Ali, M. Zasadzinski, and K. Abderrahim, Functional adaptive H-infinity observer design for a class of bilinear systems with time delays, Stability, Control and Application of Time-delay Systems, Butterworth-Heinemann, pp. 387-403, 2019.
• A. Sassi, M. Zasadzinski, H.Souley Ali, and K. Abderrahim, Functional H-infinity observer design for a class of bilinear systems with time delays, Stability, Control and Application of Time-delay Systems, Butterworth-Heinemann, pp. 405-422, 2019.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley Ali, M. Zasadzinski, and K. Abderrahim, Adaptive observer design for a class of descriptor nonlinear systems, European Journal of Control, Vol. 44, pp. 90-102, 2018.
• A. Sassi, M. Zasadzinksi, H. Souley Ali, and K. Abderrahim, Adaptive observer design for a class of nonlinear systems with time delays, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTES), Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 373-383, 2018.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley Ali, M. Zasadzinski, and K. Abderrahim, Commande basée observateur d’un système LPV: Application à une génératrice asynchrone à double alimentation, Congrès National de la Recherche en IUT, CNRIUT’2018, Aix en Provence, France, June 2018.
• A. Sassi, M. Zasadzinski, H. S. Ali, and K. Abderrahim, Observer based control of a wind Driven Doubly Fed Induction Generator, ICOME’18, San Sebastian, Spain, April 2018.
• A. Sassi, M. Zasadzinski, H. Souley Ali, and K. Abderrahim, Adaptive observer design for bilinear descriptor system with time delays, 14th International Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, ACD 2017, Bucarest, Romania, November 2017.
• A. Sassi, M. Zasadzinski, H. Souley Ali, and K. Abderrahim, A robust reduced order functional H∞ observer for time delay bilinear systems, 2017 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), pp. 637-642, Valetta, Malta, July 2017.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley Ali, M. Zasadzinski, and K. Abderrahim, Design of an H-infinity adaptive observer for bilinear delayed systems, IFAC World congress, pp. 2923-2928, Toulouse, France, July 2017.
• H. Souley Ali, A. Sassi, M. Zasadzinski, K. Abderrahim, and M. El Ganaoui, Fault tolerant control for energy power systems, International Conference on Materials and Energy, ICOME’17, Tianjin, China, July 2017.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley Ali, M. Zasadzinski, and K. Abderrahim, Full order adaptive observer design for time delay bilinear system, 2017 6th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC), pp. 267-272, Batna, Algeria, June 2017.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley Ali, M. Zasadzinski, K. Abderrahim, and A. Di Sano, Observateur adaptatif pour des systèmes Proie-Prédateur, Congrès National de la Recherche en IUT, CNRIUT’2017, Auxerre, France, May 2017.
• H. Souley Ali, A. Sassi, A. Barbata, M. Zasadzinski, and A. Di Sano, Modélisation et contrôle appliqués à la maîtrise de la demande en énergie des bâtiments, Congrès National de la Recherche en IUT, CNRIUT’2017, Auxerre, France, May 2017.
• A. Sassi, H. Souley-Ali, S. Bedoui, K. Abderrahim, and M. Zasadzinski, Design of a functional adaptive observer for bilinear delayed systems, IFAC workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS), Volume 49, Issue 10, pp. 25-30, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2016.
• A. Sassi, S. Bedoui, and K. Abderrahim, Time delay system identification, 2013 17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), pp. 473-478, Sinaia, Romania, October 2013.

PhD of Automatic

• 2014-2018

  PhD of Automatic

  Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
• 2011-2013

  Engineer in Electronic and Automatic

  Université de Gabès, Gabès, Tunisie

Assistant professor in Automatic Control and Electrical Engineering

• Since 2022

  Assistant professor in Automatic Control and Electrical Engineering

  ESME, Lyon, France
• 2019-2022

  Assistant professor in Engineering Science

  IPSA, Lyon, France
• 2018-2019

  ATER

  Polytech Grenoble, Grenoble, France