Dr Khaled Laib

Khaled Laib received the "dipl Ingénieur" in Automatic Control from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algeria, in 2011, the MSc in Control and Automation Engineering from INSA Lyon, France in 2013 and the PhD in Control and Systems from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, in 2017. Before joining De Montfort University, he was a Research Associate with the Control Group of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge from October 2018 to August 2022. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Automatic Control, Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble, France from late 2017 to August 2018.

His research interest focuses on developing new tools and techniques for understanding, analysing, and controlling complex systems. A special focus is given to analysing and controlling large-scale networks, interconnected systems, and large-scale systems using tools and techniques such as Lyapunov stability theory, input-output approaches (integral quadratic constraint-based approaches), and convex optimisation subject to linear matrix inequalities.

In addition to the analysis and control of large-scale and interconnected systems, some of his research projects include, e.g., synchronization of Phase Locked Loops (PLLs) networks, power flow analysis in conventional AC grids, cooperative adaptive cruise control of vehicle platoons, stability and control problems of AC and DC microgrids and convergence analysis of optimisation algorithms.

Institute of Engineering Sciences (IES)

Selected papers

• K. Laib, J. Watson, Y. Ojo and I. Lestas, ”Decentralized Stability Conditions for DC Microgrids: Beyond passivity approaches,” in Automatica.
• K. Laib, M.T. Pham, X. Lin-Shin, and R. Meghnous, ”Average Modeling and Nonlinear Observer Design for Pneumatic Actuators With On/Off Solenoid Valves,” in Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 144, no. 2, February, 2022.
• K. Laib, A. Korniienko, M. Dinh, G. Scorletti, and F. Morel, ”Hierarchical robust performance analysis of uncertain large scale systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 2075-2090, July, 2018.
• K. Laib, J. Watson, Y. Ojo and I. Lestas, ”Decentralized Stability Conditions in DC Microgrids,” in Proceedings of the 2021 60th of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5659-5664, Austin, TX, USA, December, 2021.
• K. Laib, J. Watson and I. Lestas, ”Decentralized Stability Conditions for Inverter-Based Microgrids,” in Proceedings of the 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1341-1346, Jeju, Korea (South), December, 2020.
• K. Laib, O. Senam and L. Dugard, ”String Stable H∞ LPV Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control with a Variable Time Headway,” in Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress, pp. 15140-15145, Berlin, Germany, July, 2020.
• K. Laib, A. Korniienko, F. Morel, and G. Scorletti, ”LMI based approach for power flow analysis with uncertain power injection,” in Proceedings of the 9th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, pp. 310-315, Florianopolis, Brazil, September, 2018.
• K. Laib, R. Meghnous, M.T. Pham, and X. Lin-Shin, ”Averaged state model and sliding mode observer for on/off solenoid valve pneumatic actuators,” in Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, pp. 4569-4574, Boston, MA, USA, July, 2016.
• K. Laib, A. Korniienko, G. Scorletti, and F. Morel, ”Phase IQC for the hierarchical performance analysis of uncertain large scale systems,” in Proceedings of the 2015 54th of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5953-5958, Osaka, Japan, December, 2015.

• Decentralised and scalable control design strategies for large-scale networks.
• Robustness analysis of large-scale networks.
• Nonlinear systems: Lyapunov methods, input/output approaches, integral quadratic constraints (IQCs), robust H infinity and linear parameter varying (LPV) approaches.
• Efficient analysis/synthesis method development based on convex optimisation and linear matrix inequalities (LMIs).

• Control Systems Engineering
• Signal Processing

• PhD in Control and Systems, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, 2017.
• MSc in Control and Automation Engineering, INSA Lyon, France, 2013.
• Dipl Ingénieur in Automatic Control, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algeria, 2011.

• Dynamics and Control
• Digital Control
• Programable Logic Circuits

• IEEE member
• IEEE Control Systems Society

Dr Khaled Laib is always open to discussions with potential future Master, PhD and intern students to conduct research in his research areas. Please feel free to get in touch with him to discuss your interests and potential opportunities.

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