About me

a) Information about the degrees and diplomas

2018: Habilitation thesis
“Set-theoretic methods in control. Applications to fault tolerant control and motion planning”,
confirmed through Order 5500/14.11.2018;
2008–11: PhD thesis
“Fault tolerant control based on set-theoretic methods” in Control Engineering,
Dept. of Automatic Control, École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Reviewers: R. Bitmead, J. Maciejowski. Supervisor: Sorin Olaru;
2003–08: Electrical Engineering Degree (in Control Systems and Applied Informatics), Faculty of
Automatic Control and Computers, Univ. “Politehnica” of Bucharest (UPB), Romania.
Bachelor diploma “Multisensor control systems” at Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
(through an Erasmus mobility).

b) Information about the professional experience and jobs

i) Jobs

2013–: Full Professor (previously Associate, 2016–2019 and Assistant, 2013–16),
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department (ACSE), UPB, Romania;
2014–15: Postdoctoral research fellow at UPB, Innoresearch POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132395;
2011–12: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), Norway, through an ERCIM Fellowship (supervisor: Morten Hovd).

ii) Professional experience

2020–2022

Principal investigator of a “Young Team” project “Reliable motion planning for nonlinear
systems under uncertainties (REPLAN)”, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-4-1614;

2020–2022

Responsible from UPB’s side for the “Economic Transfer” project “Versatile and economically
viable robotic platform for indoor navigation in cluttered environments with obstacles (OMNI-Z)”,
PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0867;

2020–2022

Mentor in the “Postdoctoral” project “Data Driven Fault Accommodation for Distribution Networks (DDNET)”,
PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0825;

2017

Responsible from UPB’s side for the “Innovation Cheque” project “Implementation and development of algorithms
for the dynamic motion planning of robotic systems (DEVROS)”,
devros.pub.ro, PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2017-0403;

2015–17

Principal investigator of a “Young Team” project “Set-theoretic approaches for fault tolerant control of complex
systems (SETS2FTC)”, sets2ftc.pub.ro, PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2713;

2016, 2019

Responsible for two “Young Researcher from Diaspora” mobility projects (PN-III-MCT-2016-0037
and PN-III-MCT-2019-0112; invited researcher: I. Prodan – Grenoble INP, France);

2018

Grantee of a mobility project covering expenses (travel and registration) for the Safeprocess’18
conference, PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-1913;

2014–2019

Grantee of multiple “Awarding the research results”-type grants: PRECISI-2014-6144,
-2015-10076, -2016-15179, -2016-15822, -2017-14869, -2018-42721, -2019-47925;

2013–20

Member in ESA, ROSA, PN-II/III projects:

“Advanced Control Techniques for Future Launchers (ACTFL)”, 2017–20;
“Multisensory robotic system for aerial monitoring of critical infrastructure systems (MUROS)”, 2013–16;
“Integrated Multi-Agent Aerial Robotic System for Exploring Terrestrial Regions of Interest (MAARS)”, 2016–19;
“Multi-drones system for evaluation of flood effects (SIMUL)”, 2016–18;

2013–14

Co-promotor of a SEE mobility grant between the Engineering Cybernetics Department of NTNU
and ACSE Department of UPB;

c) Publications and visibility

i) Publications (author and co-author)

Co-author (with C. Oară) of the USPTO Patent “Method for controlling vehicle in heterogeneous
platoon, involves translating received control signal into corresponding translated control signal
for vehicle, and setting throttle and brake of vehicle to level based on control signal”,
with no. WO2018215910-A1,
Derwent Primary Accession no. 2018-95178F, published on 29 Nov. 2018;
Book “Set-theoretic Fault-tolerant Control in Multisensor Systems” in FOCUS series,
ed. by Hermes Penton-ISTE Ltd with Wiley (2013);
Book “Mixed-integer representations in control design: Mathematical foundations and applications”,
in SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Eng. series, ed. by Springer (2016);
2 book chapters (ed. by Springer in 2013, 2015);
0 articles in ISI indexed journals;
0 papers (32 ISI) in top (IEEE and IFAC affiliated) Automation and Control conferences;

ii) Research interests

Motion planning algorithms using flat-based descriptions and B-spline representations;
Fault tolerant control (via set-theoretic methods, with applications in multisensor schemes);
Positive and controlled invariance (applications for RPI/mRPI computations, switched systems
with dwell time or time-delay systems, zonotopic sets);
Mixed integer programming (efficient descriptions for non-convex and non-compact regions via
hyperplane arrangements, description of complementarity conditions);
Geometrical interpretations for constrained optimization issues.

My ORCID, ResearcherID numbers and Publons account are
0000-0002-4550-9113,
C-3564-2012 and
http://publons.com/a/1212638/, respectively.