Nonlinear Control and Energy Management for Electric Mobility: From Advanced Control Theory to Industrial Deployment in EV/HEV Systems
This keynote provides a comprehensive overview of major scientific and technological advances achieved over more than a decade of collaboration between Renault/Ampere and Centrale Nantes–LS2N within an industrial research chair dedicated to electric mobility.
The research activities presented cover three main interconnected domains in electric mobility systems. The first domain focuses on AC motor
and converter control for EV/HEV applications, including sensorless control strategies for AC machines with emphasis on position estimation and torque monitoring, as well as advanced control of DC–AC power converters. The second domain addresses energy management and control strategies for EV/HEV charging and discharging systems. This includes global energy management approaches and DC bus regulation techniques for EV/HEV chargers, and automated generation of VHDL code for embedded control implementation. The third domain concerns the control and optimization of EV/HEV powertrains, including the control of batteryless series hybrid electric vehicles and energy management strategies for electric vehicles powered by fuel cell–supercapacitor hybrid systems. A particular emphasis is placed on the successful transition from academic research to industrial deployment, with several control and estimation algorithms currently exploited by Renault Group.
Overall, the talk aims to synthesize the main research directions developed within the Chair, highlighting how advances in nonlinear control theory contribute directly to next-generation electric mobility systems.
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- École de technologie supérieure
- 1100 Notre-Dame St W
- Montreal, Quebec
- Canada H3C 1K3
- Building: Pavillon A
- Room Number: A2473
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- Starts 06 May 2026 03:26 PM UTC
- Ends 27 July 2026 04:00 AM UTC
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Malek Ghanes
Biography:
Prof. Malek Ghanes is a faculty member at Centrale Nantes (CN), LS2N. He is the Director of the Electric Vehicle Performance Chair (Ampere/Renault – CN/LS2N) and Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master E-PiCo+. He received his Engineer–Magister degree in control systems from UMMTO (2000–2001), followed by an M.Sc. (2002) and a Ph.D. (2005) from IRCCyN, Centrale Nantes, and held a postdoctoral position at GReyC. From 2006 to 2016, he was Associate Professor and Head of the Automatic and Electrical Engineering Department at Quartz-ENSEA. His research focuses on nonlinear control systems applied to electric energy systems, including electric vehicles and renewable energy. His contributions cover observation/differentiation, robust and adaptive control, and AI-based methods, with applications such as fault-tolerant control, sensorless estimation, and inverter control. He introduced the “Power Tower Function” for control design.
Prof. Ghanes received the Best Paper Award (CEP IFAC, 2014) and the Applied Research Award (FIEEC, 2015). Since 2024, he serves as Associate Editor for the IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice and has authored numerous journal papers, conference publications, and patents.