{"id":502,"date":"2021-04-24T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:26:02","slug":"florin-stoican","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/en\/florin-stoican\/","title":{"rendered":"Florin Stoican"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"about-me\">\n<h1>About me<\/h1>\n<h2>a) Information about the degrees and diplomas<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>2018<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/habilitation-thesis-sets-in-control-florin-stoican.pdf\">Habilitation thesis<\/a><br \/>\n      &#8220;Set-theoretic methods in control. Applications to fault tolerant control and motion planning&#8221;,<br \/>\n      confirmed through Order 5500\/14.11.2018;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2008\u201311<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/tel.archives-ouvertes.fr\/tel-00633622v1\/document\">PhD thesis<\/a><br \/>\n      &#8220;Fault tolerant control based on set-theoretic methods&#8221; in Control Engineering,<br \/>\n      Dept. of Automatic Control, \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019\u00c9lectricit\u00e9 (Sup\u00e9lec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France.<br \/>\n      Reviewers: R. Bitmead, J. Maciejowski. Supervisor: Sorin Olaru;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2003\u201308<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Electrical Engineering Degree (in Control Systems and Applied Informatics), Faculty of<br \/>\n      Automatic Control and Computers, Univ. &#8220;Politehnica&#8221; of Bucharest (UPB), Romania.<br \/>\n      Bachelor diploma &#8220;Multisensor control systems&#8221; at Sup\u00e9lec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France<br \/>\n      (through an Erasmus mobility).\n    <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2>b) Information about the professional experience and jobs<\/h2>\n<h3>i) Jobs<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>2013\u2013<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Full Professor (previously Associate, 2016\u20132019 and Assistant, 2013\u201316),<br \/>\n      Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department (ACSE), UPB, Romania;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2014\u201315<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Postdoctoral research fellow at UPB, Innoresearch POSDRU\/159\/1.5\/S\/132395;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2011\u201312<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Postdoctoral research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology<br \/>\n      (NTNU), Norway, through an ERCIM Fellowship (supervisor: Morten Hovd).\n    <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>ii) Professional experience<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>2020\u20132022<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Principal investigator of a &#8220;Young Team&#8221; project &#8220;Reliable motion planning for nonlinear<br \/>\n      systems under uncertainties (REPLAN)&#8221;, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-4-1614;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2020\u20132022<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Responsible from UPB\u2019s side for the &#8220;Economic Transfer&#8221; project &#8220;Versatile and economically<br \/>\n      viable robotic platform for indoor navigation in cluttered environments with obstacles (OMNI-Z)&#8221;,<br \/>\n      PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0867;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2020\u20132022<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Mentor in the &#8220;Postdoctoral&#8221; project &#8220;Data Driven Fault Accommodation for Distribution Networks (DDNET)&#8221;,<br \/>\n      PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0825;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2017<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Responsible from UPB\u2019s side for the &#8220;Innovation Cheque&#8221; project &#8220;Implementation and development of algorithms<br \/>\n      for the dynamic motion planning of robotic systems (DEVROS)&#8221;,<br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/devros.pub.ro\">devros.pub.ro<\/a>, PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2017-0403;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2015\u201317<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Principal investigator of a &#8220;Young Team&#8221; project &#8220;Set-theoretic approaches for fault tolerant control of complex<br \/>\n      systems (SETS2FTC)&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/sets2ftc.pub.ro\">sets2ftc.pub.ro<\/a>, PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2713;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2016, 2019<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Responsible for two &#8220;Young Researcher from Diaspora&#8221; mobility projects (PN-III-MCT-2016-0037<br \/>\n      and PN-III-MCT-2019-0112; invited researcher: I. Prodan \u2013 Grenoble INP, France);\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2018<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Grantee of a mobility project covering expenses (travel and registration) for the Safeprocess\u201918<br \/>\n      conference, PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-1913;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2014\u20132019<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Grantee of multiple &#8220;Awarding the research results&#8221;-type grants: PRECISI-2014-6144,<br \/>\n      -2015-10076, -2016-15179, -2016-15822, -2017-14869, -2018-42721, -2019-47925;\n    <\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2013\u201320<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Member in ESA, ROSA, PN-II\/III projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Advanced Control Techniques for Future Launchers (ACTFL)&#8221;, 2017\u201320;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Multisensory robotic system for aerial monitoring of critical infrastructure systems (MUROS)&#8221;, 2013\u201316;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Integrated Multi-Agent Aerial Robotic System for Exploring Terrestrial Regions of Interest (MAARS)&#8221;, 2016\u201319;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Multi-drones system for evaluation of flood effects (SIMUL)&#8221;, 2016\u201318;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2013\u201314<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\n      Co-promotor of a SEE mobility grant between the Engineering Cybernetics Department of NTNU<br \/>\n      and ACSE Department of UPB;\n    <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2>c) Publications and visibility<\/h2>\n<h3>i) Publications (author and co-author)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      Co-author (with C. Oar\u0103) of the USPTO Patent &#8220;Method for controlling vehicle in heterogeneous<br \/>\n      platoon, involves translating received control signal into corresponding translated control signal<br \/>\n      for vehicle, and setting throttle and brake of vehicle to level based on control signal&#8221;,<br \/>\n      with no. <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/WO2018215910A1\/\">WO2018215910-A1<\/a>,<br \/>\n      Derwent Primary Accession no. 2018-95178F, published on 29 Nov. 2018;\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      Book &#8220;Set-theoretic Fault-tolerant Control in Multisensor Systems&#8221; in FOCUS series,<br \/>\n      ed. by Hermes Penton-ISTE Ltd with Wiley (2013);\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      Book &#8220;Mixed-integer representations in control design: Mathematical foundations and applications&#8221;,<br \/>\n      in SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Eng. series, ed. by Springer (2016);\n    <\/li>\n<li>2 book chapters (ed. by Springer in 2013, 2015);<\/li>\n<li>\n      0 articles in ISI indexed journals;\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      0 papers (32 ISI) in top (IEEE and IFAC affiliated) Automation and Control conferences;\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>ii) Research interests<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Motion planning algorithms using flat-based descriptions and B-spline representations;<\/li>\n<li>Fault tolerant control (via set-theoretic methods, with applications in multisensor schemes);<\/li>\n<li>\n      Positive and controlled invariance (applications for RPI\/mRPI computations, switched systems<br \/>\n      with dwell time or time-delay systems, zonotopic sets);\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      Mixed integer programming (efficient descriptions for non-convex and non-compact regions via<br \/>\n      hyperplane arrangements, description of complementarity conditions);\n    <\/li>\n<li>Geometrical interpretations for constrained optimization issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n    My ORCID, ResearcherID numbers and Publons account are<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4550-9113\">0000-0002-4550-9113<\/a>,<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/publons.com\/researcher\/C-3564-2012\/\">C-3564-2012<\/a> and<br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/publons.com\/a\/1212638\/\">http:\/\/publons.com\/a\/1212638\/<\/a>, respectively.\n  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About me a) Information about the degrees and diplomas 2018 Habilitation thesis &#8220;Set-theoretic methods in control. Applications to fault tolerant control and motion planning&#8221;, confirmed through Order 5500\/14.11.2018; 2008\u201311 PhD thesis &#8220;Fault tolerant control based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acse.pub.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}