Postdoctoral Researcher, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL
Short Bio
Yannick studied Electrical Engineering (EE) at the Institut Supérieur d’Electronique et du Numérique (ISEN) from 1998 to 2000. He then joined Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) department of Ocean Engineering (OE), where he began work on robotics, unmanned vehicles, and research on automatic control under the direction of Dr. Alexander Leonessa. He was awarded a MS in EE by ISEN in September 2002, and a MS in OE by FAU in December 2002. The topic of his Master’s Thesis was the nonlinear adaptive control of a large class of marine vehicles, with particular applications to a specific type of autonomous underwater vehicle.
After working as system engineer on a marine autonomous surface craft, still within FAU’s OE department, Yannick joined University of Central Florida’s (UCF) department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) in 2004, where he studied towards a Ph.D. in the aerospace track. He research work while at UCF concerned issues related to the application of nonlinear adaptive control techniques to practical examples; issues including actuator amplitude and rate saturation, partial information feedback, and various degrees of system uncertainty.
In 2007, Yannick transferred to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPISU), where he finished work on his dissertation under the direction of Dr. Leonessa within the Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory (VAL). The topic of his dissertation was the applied nonlinear control of uncertain systems in general, with special applications to unmanned vehicles. In addition to the results developed while at UCF, the dissertation featured a novel nonlinear observation technique, relevant to a wide range of nonlinear systems including systems nonlinear in the unmeasured state variables, and a novel nonlinear output feedback control framework for uncertain systems, in which the adaptation mechanism is replaced with an output predictor capturing the essential dynamical features of the system. Yannick was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in spring 2009.
Following graduation, he joined the French-German research Institute of St-Louis (ISL). As a research fellow within the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) group, he developed novel GNC algorithms for aeronautical systems, and designed simulation tools allowing rapid performance evaluation of novel guided projectile concepts. Yannick joined EPFL’s BioRobotics laboratory in fall 2010, where he works on control of bio-inspired swimming robots.
Publications
High-κ Wide-Gap Layered Dielectric for Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures
ACS Nano
2024-04-01
Vol. 18 , num. 15, p. 10397-10406.DOI : 10.1021/acsnano.3c10411
Automatic and high-precision microseismic monitoring of progressive failure prior, during, and after tunnel excavation
Journal of Acoustic Emission (JAE)
2023-09-28
ACOUSTIC EMISSION WORKING GROUP, Princeton, NJ, USA, September 26-28, 2023.Automatic and high-precision acoustic emission-based structural health monitoring of concrete structures
2023-09-14
14th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, CA, September 12-14, 2023.Shaped Laser Pulses for Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM: Outrunning Crystallization during Flash Melting
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2024-04-11
num. 15, p. 4244−4248.DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00315
Electromagnetic time reversal for online partial discharge location in power cables: Influence of interfering reflections from grid components
IET Science, Measurement & Technology
2024
p. 1-8.DOI : 10.1049/smt2.12197
Comparison of selected surface level ERA5 variables against in‐situ observations in the continental Arctic
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
2024
Vol. 1-24 .DOI : 10.1002/qj.4700
Settlement Layout Optimization: Appropriate Communal Open Space
2024
p. 4.Settlement Layout Optimization: Appropriate Communal Open Space – Annex 1: Public Services & Facilities (PSF)
2024
p. 31.Settlement Layout Optimization: Appropriate Communal Open Space – Annex 2: Efficient Circulation Network (CN)
2024
p. 21.3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability
MEGA Seminar , EPFL, Switzerland, 2024-03-21.