New Developments and Advances in Robot Control / Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Bd.175 (PDF)

Nabil Derbel is Professor in Control Systems Theory at the Electrical Engineering Department of The "National Engineering School of Sfax", University of Sfax, Tunisia. He received his engineering Diploma from the "Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax" in 1986, the "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" in Automatic control from the "Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse" in 1986, the "Doctorat d'Université" degree from the "Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes de Toulouse" in 1989, and the "Doctorat d'Etat" degree from the" Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis". His current interests include: Optimal Control, Sliding Mode Control, Complex Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks. He is the author and the co-author of more than 80 papers published in international Journals and of more than 500 papers published in international conferences. Currently, Professor Derbel is associate editor of International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, the editor of International Journal of Digital Signals and Smart Systems, and co-editor (and co-founder) of Transactions on Systems, Signals & Devices, an International Journal, which has been renamed in 2017 as Advances in Systems, Signals & Devices. He has edited a book for Springer entitled "Applications of sliding mode control", in 2017.

Jawhar Ghommam is an Associate Professor in Control Theory and Robotics at the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology, University of Carthage, Tunis. He's got the BSc degree in Computer and Control Engineering from the National Institute and Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT) in 2003 in Tunis. He's got the DEA ( MSc) degree form the university of Montpelier at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, Robotique et Micro-électronique (LIRMM, France) in 2004 and later on in 2008 a Ph.D in Control Engineering degree jointly from the National Engineering School of Sfax and the university of Orleans in France. From September 2008 through September