"ISA" Team

Automated Systems Engineering

Team Leader: J.-M. Roussel, Associate Professor

The overall objective of the research carried out by the Automated Systems Engineering team is to propose a number of formal and methodological contributions that serve to improve both operational safety and performance of highly-discrete control systems. The industrial sectors for applying our findings comprise systems for producing goods and services (manufacturing, energy, transportation, etc.) as well as complex mechatronics systems. The control architectures under study herein extend from on-board electronic systems to Internet-based control ("e-control") and include more conventional distributed architectures.

Our scientific skills thus lie in the field of discrete-event systems control. In order to contribute to the various phases of the engineering process (specification, design, production, testing, validation) for these systems, research works have been channeled into three main topic areas: Identification, Synthesis and Analysis. These headings correspond to the three types of paths within the discrete state space handled during this process.