Project-ALIEN:Highlights of the year

Section: Overall Objectives

Thierry Floquet defended his "Habilitation to supervise doctoral research" at 29 Oct, 2009 from Lille 1 Université des Sciences et Technologies [12] .
Patent pending in December 2008 with EDF on the control of hydroelectric projects.
Confirmation of the importance of "model-free control" from various concrete examples [102] , [43] , [50] , [91] , [29] , [88] .
New results in quantitative finance [35] , [45] , [46] .
Adaptation of the ALIEN techniques to hybrid systems [62] , [63] , [66] with switches.
Confirmation of the ALIEN techniques to models with delay [15] .
Hints on multivariable differentiation, with applications to image and video processing.
Plenary presentations by Michel Fliess and Cédric Join at SYSID09: "Model-free control and intelligent PID controllers: towards a possible trivialization of nonlinear control" [36] , and at International Conference on Systems Theory: "Modeling, Analysis and Control: A mathematical proof of the existence of trends in financial time series" [35] .