Curriculum vitæ

Curriculum Vitæ of Sami Tliba
Born: 25.12.1976, in Grenoble, France. Married, two children
Associate professor (Maître de conférences) at University Paris-Sud 11(Univ Paris-Sud)
Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physic, Orsay, France
Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S/CNRS/Supelec/Univ Paris-Sud)
Address: L2S/CNRS/Univ Paris-Sud/Supelec, 3 rue Joliot Curie, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
URL: http://www.l2s.supelec.fr/perso/tliba Phone: 00-33-1-6985-1756
E-mail: sami.tliba@lss.supelec.fr Fax: 00-33-1-6985-1765
Studies and academic position
1. Studies and degrees
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Automatic Control, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
(ENS Cachan), France, 2004
• Former student of ENS Cachan, France, from 1997 to 2001 with the following degrees
– M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2001
– Agrégation of Mechanical Engineering, 2000
– B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 1998
2. Academic positions
• since 2005: Associate professor (Maître de conférences) at Univ Paris-Sud
• 2004–2005: Assistant professor (A.T.E.R.) at ENS Cachan
• 2001–2004: PhD student at Laboratory SATIE/ENS Cachan and Lecturer (Moniteur) at
Univ Paris-Sud/IUT Cachan/Mechanical Department
• 2001: undergraduate student at University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, trainee at ONERA/CERT/DCSD
(Systems Control and Flight Dynamic, Department of the French aerospace Lab ONERA).
Research interests
• Robotics: mathematical formulation and investigation of control problems in robotic co-manipulation
• Application of robust and optimal control methods
• Control of linear systems with bounded inputs: anti-windup design
• Analytical (PDEs) and numerical (Finite Element Method) modeling of thin mechanical flexible
structures equipped with piezoelectric sensors and actuators
• Model reduction
• Active vibration control of flexible structures using piezoelectric transducers
• Demonstrator design for control experimentation of active vibration control
Last publications and submitted works
[1] S. Tliba: Vibration damping of a flexible beam with saturated control, in Proceedings of the 2012
American Control Conference, p.5330 (ACC 2012) - Montréal, Québec, CA, 2012-06-27.
[2] S. Jlassi, S. Tliba and Y. Chitour: Sur la comanipulation homme-robot pour des tâches de manutention
- in Acte de la 7ème Conférence Internationale Francophone d’Automatique (CIFA 2012), p.72
(2012) - Grenoble, FR, 2012-07-04
[3] S. Jlassi, S. Tliba and Y. Chitour: On Human-Robot Co-manipulation for Handling Tasks: Modeling
and Control Strategy - in Proceedings of the 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control,
p.710 (SYROCO 2012) - Dubrovnik, HR, 2012-09-05
[4] S. Jlassi, S. Tliba and Y. Chitour: An event-controlled Online Trajectory Generator based on processing
of the human-robot interaction force for load handling tasks - submitted to “Industrial Robot:
An International Journal” - January 2013

Grants
• From July 2003 to August 2005: main investigator of an industrial contract with THALES Airborne
System of 160000 euros. “Active vibration control of electronic boards embedded in airplanes”
• From October 2008 to January 2013: member of the project Digiteo NOVEO of 232000 euros,
including funds for a PhD thesis, for a Post-doc position and for experimental materials: “New
tools for the design, the experimental implement and the control of BioMEMS”. In collaboration
with Mehdi Boukallel from CEA-LIST and Gilles Duc from Supelec.
• Since October 2009: member of the project Digiteo ROBOTEO of 501000 euros including 55000
euros for L2S/CNRS/Supelec/Univ Paris-Sud as funds dedicated to experimental materials. It is a
project gathering the research activities on robotic in Paris. In collaboration with {J.-M. Alexandre,
Y. Perrot, M. Grossard} from CEA-LIST, H. Mounier from IEF/Univ Paris-Sud, P. Tarroux from
LIMSI/ENS Cachan/CNRS, {S. I. Niculescu, W. Pasillas-Lépine} from L2S/CNRS/Supelec/Univ Paris-
Sud
Teaching activities
• Responsible of the following Master courses:
– Control of flexible structures: tools for their modeling, their analyze and their robust control
– Multivariable control of linear systems
– State-space approach for linear control of SISO systems
– Linear control of sampled-data SISO systems
• Responsible of the License course on “Linear control systems in the frequency domain”
Student supervision
1. PhD Students:
• Matthieu VARNIER (rate of advising 80%, with Professor Gilles DUC) Started 01/09 ; “Control
of flexible structures by robust and saturating control laws”; expected defence: 12/2013;
Mr VARNIER is actually engineer at THALES Alenia-Space.
• Sarra JLASSI (rate of advising 50%, together with Professor Yacine CHITOUR) Started 09/10;
“Mathematical formulation and investigation of control problems in robotic co-manipulation”;
expected defence: 09/2013
2. Master students:
• Djamaleddine MAAMRIA from 02/2012 to 08/2012 (actually Ph.D. student at Ecoles des
Mines-ParisTech). “Control of linear systems with bounded inputs”.
• Belkacem BENMESSAOUD from 02/2011 to 08/2011 (actually engineer at Bertrand Consulting).
“Comparative study of anti-windup compensators in active vibration control with actuator
saturation
• Abdenbi MOHAND OUSAID from 02/2009 to 08/2009 (actually Ph.D. student at ISIR, Univ.
Pierre & Marie Curie). “Synthesis of observers for the control of a piezoelectric micro-gripper
prototype”
• Cao Hoang Minh N’GUYEN from 02/2007 to 08/2007 (actualy engineer at ?). “Active vibration
control by robust and saturating control of piezoelectric actuators”