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Cédric Join

Bio: Cédric Join is an academic researcher from University of Lorraine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nonlinear system & Fault detection and isolation. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 178 publications receiving 4562 citations. Previous affiliations of Cédric Join include Nancy-Université & Concordia University Wisconsin.


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TL;DR: Model-free control and the corresponding ‘intelligent’ PID controllers (iPIDs), which already had many successful concrete applications, are presented here for the first time in an unified manner, where the new advances are taken into account.
Abstract: ''Model-free control'' and the corresponding ''intelligent'' PID controllers (iPIDs), which already had many successful concrete applications, are presented here for the first time in an unified manner, where the new advances are taken into account. The basics of model-free control is now employing some old functional analysis and some elementary differential algebra. The estimation techniques become quite straightforward via a recent online parameter identification approach. The importance of iPIs and especially of iPs is deduced from the presence of friction. The strange industrial ubiquity of classic PID's and the great difficulty for tuning them in complex situations is deduced, via an elementary sampling, from their connections with iPIDs. Several numerical simulations are presented which include some infinite-dimensional systems. They demonstrate not only the power of our intelligent controllers but also the great simplicity for tuning them.

645 citations

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TL;DR: It is shown that the introduction of delayed estimates affords significant improvement in numerical differentiation in noisy environment, and that the implementation in terms of a classical finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter is given.
Abstract: Numerical differentiation in noisy environment is revised through an algebraic approach. For each given order, an explicit formula yielding a pointwise derivative estimation is derived, using elementary differential algebraic operations. These expressions are composed of iterated integrals of the noisy observation signal. We show in particular that the introduction of delayed estimates affords significant improvement. An implementation in terms of a classical finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter is given. Several simulation results are presented.

382 citations

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TL;DR: Non-linear state estimation and some related topics like parametric estimation, fault diagnosis and perturbation attenuation are tackled here via a new methodology in numerical differentiation within the framework of differential algebra.
Abstract: Non-linear state estimation and some related topics like parametric estimation, fault diagnosis and perturbation attenuation are tackled here via a new methodology in numerical differentiation. The corresponding basic system theoretic definitions and properties are presented within the framework of differential algebra, which permits to handle system variables and their derivatives of any order. Several academic examples and their computer simulations, with online estimations, illustrate our viewpoint.

363 citations

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TL;DR: A model-free control and a control with a restricted model for finite-dimensional complex systems that may be viewed as a contribution to "intelligent" PID controllers, the tuning of which becomes quite straightforward, even with highly nonlinear and/or time-varying systems.

268 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a model-free control and a control with a restricted model for finite-dimensional complex systems are presented, which can be viewed as a contribution to intelligent PID controllers.
Abstract: We are introducing a model-free control and a control with a restricted model for finite-dimensional complex systems. This control design may be viewed as a contribution to "intelligent" PID controllers, the tuning of which becomes quite straightforward, even with highly nonlinear and/or time-varying systems. Our main tool is a newly developed numerical differentiation. Differential algebra provides the theoretical framework. Our approach is validated by several numerical experiments.

206 citations


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TL;DR: A bibliographical review on reconfigurable fault-tolerant control systems (FTCS) is presented, with emphasis on the reconfiguring/restructurable controller design techniques.

2,455 citations

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15 Feb 2011

1,876 citations

01 Nov 1981
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the effect of local derivatives on the detection of intensity edges in images, where the local difference of intensities is computed for each pixel in the image.
Abstract: Most of the signal processing that we will study in this course involves local operations on a signal, namely transforming the signal by applying linear combinations of values in the neighborhood of each sample point. You are familiar with such operations from Calculus, namely, taking derivatives and you are also familiar with this from optics namely blurring a signal. We will be looking at sampled signals only. Let's start with a few basic examples. Local difference Suppose we have a 1D image and we take the local difference of intensities, DI(x) = 1 2 (I(x + 1) − I(x − 1)) which give a discrete approximation to a partial derivative. (We compute this for each x in the image.) What is the effect of such a transformation? One key idea is that such a derivative would be useful for marking positions where the intensity changes. Such a change is called an edge. It is important to detect edges in images because they often mark locations at which object properties change. These can include changes in illumination along a surface due to a shadow boundary, or a material (pigment) change, or a change in depth as when one object ends and another begins. The computational problem of finding intensity edges in images is called edge detection. We could look for positions at which DI(x) has a large negative or positive value. Large positive values indicate an edge that goes from low to high intensity, and large negative values indicate an edge that goes from high to low intensity. Example Suppose the image consists of a single (slightly sloped) edge:

1,829 citations