I am since September 2006 Associate professor (Maître de conferences – HDR) at the Institut Pascal – Polytech Clermont-Ferrand (Electrical Engineering department). In 2015, he obtained from Blaise Pascal University a HDR (habilitation to steer research in Robotics). Dr. Adouane’s main research and teaching activities are linked mainly to robotics and automatic control and have several links with computer science tools and methodologies. His current research focuses on Intelligent Vehicles, more specifically, he is working on three main topics:
- Autonomous navigation of mobile robots / vehicles in complex environments
- Cooperative control architectures for multi-robot / vehicle systems
- Optimized energy management of dynamic hybrid electric vehicles
He is the author/coauthor of more than 100 refereed international papers and 2 books on these topics. More specifically, his main research include planning and control, hybrid (continuous/discrete) and hybrid (reactive/cognitive) multi-controller architectures, Lyapunov-based synthesis and stability, obstacle avoidance, cooperative multi-robot systems, navigation in formation, artificial intelligence (such as Markov decision process, multi-agent systems or fuzzy logic), energy management (optimal control and Neuro-Fuzzy approaches) and multi-robot/agent simulation.