Georges Bastin

Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME)
Department of Mathematical Engineering
Bâtiment Euler, Avenue Georges Lemaître, 4,
1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium.

Tel: +32 10 47 80 38
Fax: +32 10 47 21 80
Email: Georges.Bastin (at) uclouvain.be

SUMMARY

  • Main academic appointments

  • Teaching activities

  • Research fields of interest

  • Direction of research programmes

  • Supervision of doctoral dissertations

  • Industrial contracts

  • Editorial activities

  • Other responsabilities

  • Publications

    • MAIN ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

    Professor at the Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME), Department of Mathematical Engineering, Louvain University.

    1983 - 1989 : Head of the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Dynamique et Analyse des Systèmes , Louvain University.

    1994 - 2000 : Head of the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Louvain University.


    Part-time appointments :

    1984 - 2003 : Professor Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise.

    2001 - 2003 : Associate Professor, Ecole des Mines de Paris.


    Short term appointments :

    1983 : Visiting Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Hydraulique de Grenoble (Institut National Polytechnique), France (7 months).

    1985 : Research Fellow at the Systems Engineering Department, Australian National University, Canberra (6 months).

    1989 - 1990 : Invited Research Fellow, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Centre d'Automatique, Fontainebleau, France (6 months)

    1994 : Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (5 months).

    1998 : Associate Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Centre de Robotique, France (6 months)

    2006 : Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia (6 months).

    TEACHING

  • At Université Catholique de Louvain
    • Modelling and Analysis of Dynamical Systems

    Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems

    Modelling of Biological Systems


  • Other Teaching activities
    • General and Advanced Statistical Hydrology (ENSHG, Grenoble,1983).

    Environmental Systems Analysis (Faculté Universitaire Luxembourgeoise, 1984-2003).

    Applied Nonlinear Systems (Ecole des Mines de Paris, 1992-2005)

    Belgian Graduate School in Systems and Control : Nonlinear control systems (1992), Theory of robot control (1999), Positive systems (2004).

    Dutch Graduate School in Systems and Control : Control of mechanical systems (1991), Modelling and control of hyperbolic PDE systems (2007).

    Graduate School of European Embedded Control Institute : Control of hyperbolic PDE systems (2009).
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    RESEARCH FIELDS

  • Nonlinear Control

  • Modelling and Control of Compartmental and Mass-Balance Systems

  • Modelling and Control of Dynamical Network Systems

  • Boundary Control of Hyperbolic (PDE) Systems of Conservation Laws

  • Application of System Theory in Biology, Robotics, Communication Networks and Environmental Problems.

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    DIRECTION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

    Biotechnology Action Programme (European Commission); Project BAP-0032-B , Advanced Monitoring and Computer Control of Biotechnological Processes, 1986-1989.

    Action de Recherche Concertée (Service de Programmation de la Politique Scientifique - Communauté Française de Belgique) : Control of Nonlinear Multivariable Systems. (Co-direction with Prof. M. Gevers), 1988-1990.

    Interuniversity Attraction Pole (Belgian Federal Scientific Policy) : Modelling, Simulation and Control of Complex Systems, (Co-direction with Prof. M. Crochet et M. Gevers), 1990-1995.

    BRITE/EURAM Programme (European Commission)) : Development of novel intelligent monitoring techniques and optimal adaptive control of fed-batch penicillin fermentations,1992-1995.

    AIR Programme (European Commission)) : Design and scale-up of a bioprocess for the production of natural vanillin from agricultural by-products, 1996 - 1999.

    Regional Government : Design, optimisation, control and validation of a new glycoprotein production process in perfused bioreactors with high cellular densities (Co-direction with Prof. Y-J. Schneider and Prof. S. Agathos), 1999 - 2002.

    Belgian Federal Scientific Policy (SSTC): Sustainable effects of traffic management systems (Co-direction with Prof. G. Campion), 2001-2003.

    Solvay Research Funds (University of Louvain) : Optimal scheduling and on line control of hybrid batch-continuous production processes (Co-direction with Prof. Y. Pochet and Prof. D. Dochain), 2003-2005.

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    SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

    D. Dochain : "On-line state and parameter estimation and adaptive control of biotechnological processes", October 1986.

    V. Van Breusegem : "Modelling and feedback control of underground transportation systems", September 1988.

    B. Wery : "Identification of hydrological systems with application to flood forecasting", March 1990.

    C. Delépaut : "Output feedback control of nonlinear systems with state observers", December 1990.

    L. Chen : "Modelling, identifiability and control of complex biotechnological processes", February 1992.

    F. Jarachi : "Predictive control of nonlinear recursive systems", December 1993.

    O. Françoisse : "Adaptive nonlinear control of distributed chemical reactors", December 1993.

    V. Chotteau : "A general modeling methodology for animal cell cultures", July 1995.

    A.M. Guillaume : "Commande adaptative en temps discret de systèmes nonlinéaires continus", May 1996.

    F. Jadot : "Dynamics and robust nonlinear PI control of stirred tank reactors", June 1996.

    P. Carette : "Discarding data to perform more accurate identification of input/output system dynamics", March 1997.

    F. Grognard : "Control of constrained systems : closed loop, open loop and hybrid solutions", October 2001.

    B. David : "Parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamical systems with correlated noise", November 2001.

    J. de Halleux : "Boundary control of quasi-linear hyperbolic systems", September 2004.[pdf]

    V. Guffens : "Compartmental Fluid-Flow Modelling in Packet Switched Networks with Hop-by-Hop Control", December 2005. [pdf]

    A. Provost : "Metabolic design of dynamic bioreaction models", November 2006. [pdf]

    B. Haut : "Modelling and control of road traffic networks described by hyperbolic systems of conservation laws", September 2007. [pdf]

    F. Warichet : "Scheduling of mixed batch-continuous production lines", October 2007. [pdf]

    I. Simeonova : "On-line periodic scheduling of hybrid chemical plants with parallel production lines and shared resources", August 2008. [pdf]

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    INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTS

    Modelling and Identification of Hydrological Systems (Ministère des Travaux Publics, Service d' Etudes Hydrologiques), 1986-1988.

    Modelling and Traffic Control on Metro Lines (Société des Transports Inter-communaux de Bruxelles), 1985-1987.

    On-line Monitoring of Biotechnological Processes (SOLVAY, Neder-over-Heembeek), 1987-1988.

    Design of Industrial Adaptive Regulators (Absy, Bruxelles), with the support of IRSIA, 1986-1989.

    Control of Yeast Fermentation Processes for Pharmaceutical Industry (Smith-Kline-Rit, Rixensart), 1988-1989.

    Modelling and Control of Industrial Grinding Processes, with the support of Région Wallonne, 1990-1994 and 1999-2001.

    Modelling of Animal Cell Culture Systems (Smith-Kline-Beecham-Biologicals, Rixensart), 1991-1994.

    Development of flood forecasting models (Ministère de l'équipement et des transports de la Région Wallonne, Service d'Etudes Hydrologiques), 1994-2009.

    Modelling and control of an epichlorhydrin production process (SOLVAY, Neder-over-Heembeek), 1996-1999.

    Modelling and control of cooling tables in hot rolling mills (USINOR, Cockerill-Sambre), 2000-2002.

    Automatic prediction of ice conditions on road traffic networks (MACQ-Electronics), 2003-2005.

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    EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

    Associate Editor "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control", 1998 - 2000.

    Associate Editor "Journal of Forecasting" (Wiley), from 1988.

    Associate Editor "Electronic Journal of Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations", European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM), 1998 - 2003.

    Member of Editorial Board "Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering" (Springer), from 2002.

    Member of Editorial Board "IET Control Theory & Applications", from 2006.

    OTHER RESPONSABILITIES

    Member of the Administrative Council of the European Union Control Association (EUCA), 1990 - 1998

    Co-Chair of the European Control Conference (ECC 1997).

    Member (Belgian Representative) of the "Modelling and Control of Biotechnical Systems Committee" , International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 1988 - 2004.

    Chairman of the Symposium on Modelling of Bioprocesses at the 6th European Congress of Biotechnology, 1993.

    SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • G. Bastin, J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, "On Lyapunov stability of linearised Saint-Venant equations for a sloping channel", Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Vol. 4(2), 2009, pp. 177 - 187. [pdf]

  • N. Bedjaoui, E. Weyer and G. Bastin, "Methods for the localization of a leak in open water channels", Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Vol. 4(2), 2009, pp. 189 - 210. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin, A.M. Bayen, C. D'Apice, X. Litrico, B. Piccoli, "Open problems and research perspectives for irrigation channels", Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Vol.4(2), 2009, pp. i-v. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin, J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, "Using hyperbolic systems of balance laws for modeling, control and stability analysis of physical networks", Lecture notes for the Pre-Congress Workshop on Complex Embedded and Networked Control Systems, 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 2008. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin, "Quantitative analysis of metabolic networks and design of minimal bioreaction models: a brief tutorial", ARIMA, Revue Africaine de la Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées, Vol.9, pp. 41 - 55, 2008. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin, D. Nesic, Y. Tan, I. Mareels, "On extremum seeking in bioprocesses with multivalued cost functions", Biotechnology Progress, Vol. 25(3), 2009, pp. 683 - 689. [pdf]

  • J-M. Coron, G. Bastin, B. d'Andréa-Novel, "Dissipative boundary conditions for one-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic systems", SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 47(3), 2008, pp. 1460 - 1498. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin, B. Haut, J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, "Lyapunov stability analysis of networks of scalar conservation laws ", Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Vol. 2(4), pp. 749 - 757, 2007. [pdf]

  • V. Dos Santos, G. Bastin, J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, "Boundary control with integral action for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws : stability and experiments ", Automatica, Vol. 44(5), 2008, pp. 1310 - 1318. [pdf]

  • C. Prieur, J. Winkin, G. Bastin, "Robust boundary control of systems of conservation laws",  Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, Vol. 20, pp. 173 - 197, 2008. [pdf]

  • B. Haut, G. Bastin, P. Van Dooren, "Maximal stability region of a perturbed nonnegative matrix", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 19(3), pp. 364 - 376, 2009. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin, "Sur la modélisation et le contrôle des réseaux dynamiques conservatifs", Revue E-STA, Special CIFA 2006, Vol. 3(2), 2007. [pdf]

  • B. Haut and G. Bastin, "A second order model of road junctions in fluid models of traffic networks", Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Vol. 2(2), pp. 227 - 253, 2007 [pdf]

  • A. Provost, G. Bastin, S. Agathos, Y-J. Schneider "Metabolic design of macroscopic bioreaction models : Application to Chinese hamster ovary cells", Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Vol. 29(5-6), 2006, pp. 349-366. [pdf]

  • J-B. Coulaud, G. Campion, G. Bastin, M. Dewan, "Stability analysis of a vision-based control design for an autonomous mobile robot", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22(9), 2006, pp. 1062 - 1069. [pdf]

  • J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, G. Bastin, "A strict Lyapunov function for boundary control of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52(1), 2007, pp. 2 - 11. [pdf]

  • G. Bastin and V. Guffens, "Congestion control in compartmental network systems", Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 55(8), 2006, pp. 689 - 696. [pdf]

  • F. Grognard, Y. Chitour, G. Bastin, "Equilibria and stability analysis of a branched metabolic network with feedback inhibition", Network and Heterogeneous Media, Vol. 1(1), 2006, pp. 219 - 239. [pdf]

  • O. Bernard and G. Bastin, "Identification of reaction networks for bioprocesses : determination of a partially unknown pseudo-stoichiometric matrix", Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Vol. 27(5), 2005, pp. 293 - 301. [pdf]

  • C. Dal Cin, L. Moens, P. Dierickx, G. Bastin, Y. Zech, "An integrated approach for real-time flood-map forecasting on the Belgian Meuse river", Natural Hazards, Vol. 36(1-2), 2005, pp. 237 - 256. [pdf]

  • O. Bernard, G. Bastin, "On the estimation of the pseudo-stoichiometric matrix for macroscopic mass balance modelling of biotechnological processes", Mathematical Biosciences, Vol. 193, 2005, pp. 51 - 77. [pdf]

  • A. Provost, G. Bastin, "Dynamical metabolic modelling under the balanced growth condition", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 14(7), 2004, pp. 717 - 728. [pdf]

  • I.Y. Smets, J.E. Claes, E.J. November, G. Bastin and J.F. Van Impe, "Optimal adaptive control of (bio)chemical reactors: past, present and future", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 14(7), 2004, pp. 795 - 805. [pdf]

  • J. de Halleux, C. Prieur, J-M. Coron, B. d'Andréa-Novel, G. Bastin, "Boundary feedback control in networks of open channels", Automatica, Vol.39(8), 2003, pp. 1365-1376. [pdf]

  • B. David and G. Bastin, " Parameter estimation in nonlinear systems with auto and crosscorrelated noise", Automatica, Vol. 38(1), 2002, pp. 81 - 90. [pdf]

  • I. Smets, G. Bastin, J. Van Impe " Feedback stabilisation of fed-batch bioreactors for microbial conversion processes with non-monotonic kinetics", Biotechnology Progress, Vol.18(5), 2002, pp. 1116 - 1125. [pdf]

  • F. Grognard, R. Sepulchre, G. Bastin " Improving the performance of low-gain designs for bounded control of linear systems ", Automatica,Vol. 38(10), 2002, pp. 1777-1782. [pdf]

  • L. Ikonomou, J.C. Drugmand, G. Bastin, Y-J. Schneider, S. Agathos, "Microcarrier culture of lepidopteran cell lines: Implications for growth and recombinant protein production", Biotechnology Progress, Vol. 18(6), 2002, pp. 1345-1355. [pdf]

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