My Ph.D. dissertation Observer Design for Hybrid Systems is found here.
Below is a list of my select publications.
In black = publications about hybrid or discrete-time observer theory, from my Ph.D. work.
In purple = publications about robust continuous-time observers with applications to the vehicle suspension, most from my Master years.
★ denotes equal contribution (co-first authors)
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Valentin Alleaume, Pauline Bernard, Florent Di Meglio, Dealing with Indistinguishability in Gluing KKL Observer Design for Hybrid Systems with Unknown Jump Times, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. [See content in Chapter 12 of my thesis]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Observer Design for Hybrid Systems with Partially Affine Forms and Known Jump Times: Applications to Walking Robots, submitted to Automatica. [HAL]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Reduced-Order Observer for a Class of Uncertain Descriptor NLPV Systems: Application to the Vehicle Suspension, submitted to International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
★Thach Ngoc Dinh, ★Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Systematic Interval Observer Design for Linear Systems, provisionally accepted by Automatica. [arXiv]
★Thach Ngoc Dinh, ★Gia Quoc Bao Tran, A Unified KKL-Based Interval Observer for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), April 2024 (joint presentation at 63rd IEEE CDC). [PDF, arXiv]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Arbitrarily Fast Robust KKL Observer for Nonlinear Time-Varying Discrete Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, October 2023. [PDF, HAL]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Unified Generalized H2 Nonlinear Parameter Varying Observer: Application to Automotive Suspensions, IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), June 2022 (joint presentation at 61st IEEE CDC). [PDF, HAL]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Eduarda Costa, Peter Gaspar, Integrated Comfort-Adaptive Cruise and Semi-Active Suspension Control for an Autonomous Vehicle: An LPV Approach, Electronics, March 2021. [PDF, GitHub]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thach Ngoc Dinh, Interval Observer Design Using Observability Decomposition for Detectable Linear Systems, submitted to 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2025.
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Sergio Garcia, Pauline Bernard, Florent Di Meglio, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Towards Gluing KKL Observer for Hybrid Systems with Unknown Jump Times, 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, December 2024. [PDF, HAL (full version)]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Vincent Andrieu, Daniele Astolfi, Constructible Canonical Form and High-Gain Observer in Discrete Time, 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, December 2024. [PDF, HAL (full version)]
Errata: In Item A1.2 of Assumption 1, remove all the time k from the points. In Equation (21) of the full version, change \tilde{z}_0 to \hat{z}_0.
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Fault Estimation Observers for the Vehicle Suspension with a Varying Chassis Mass, 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS), Ferrara, Italy, June 2024. [PDF, HAL]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Kalman-Like Observer for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, December 2023. [PDF, HAL (full version)]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Coupling Flow and Jump Observers for Hybrid Systems with Known Jump Times, 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, July 2023. [PDF, HAL (full version)]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Florent Di Meglio, Lorenzo Marconi, Observer Design based on Observability Decomposition for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times, 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, December 2022. [PDF, HAL]
Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Non Linear Parameter Varying Observer based on Descriptor Modeling for Damper Fault Estimation, IFAC Joint Conference SSSC – TDS – LPVS, Montreal, Canada, September 2022. [PDF]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Multi-Objective Grid-Based Lipschitz NLPV PI Observer for Damper Fault Estimation, 11th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS), Paphos, Cyprus, June 2022. [PDF]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer: Application to a Semi-Active Suspension System, 4th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter-Varying Systems (LPVS), Milan, Italy, July 2021. [PDF]
Marcelo M. Morato, Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Guilherme N. G. dos Reis, Julio E. Normey-Rico, Olivier Sename, NMPC Through qLPV Embedding: A Tutorial Review of Different Approaches, 7th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2021. [PDF]
Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Cao Tho Phan, Gia Quoc Bao Tran, H∞ Observer for Road Profile Estimation in an Automotive Semi-Active Suspension System Using Two Accelerometers, 10th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering (ICMCE), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2021. [PDF, HAL]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Zheng Wang, Yusuke Koge, Kimihiko Nakano, Surface Electromyography-Controlled Vehicle Braking Assistance System Using Deep Learning, 12th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), New York, USA, July 2021. [PDF, GitHub]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Olivier Sename, Peter Gaspar, Balazs Nemeth, Eduarda Costa, Adaptive Speed Control of an Autonomous Vehicle with a Comfort Objective, 17th International Conference on Vehicle System Dynamics, Identification and Anomalies (VSDIA), Budapest, Hungary, November 2020. [PDF]
Eduarda Costa, Thanh-Phong Pham, Olivier Sename, Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Trong Tu Do, Peter Gaspar, Definition of a Reference Speed of an Autonomous Vehicle with a Comfort Objective, 17th International Conference on Vehicle System Dynamics, Identification and Anomalies, Budapest, Hungary, November 2020. [PDF]
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Binh Minh Nguyen, Towards Parameter and Unknown Input Estimation for Multi-Rotors, SICE International Symposium on Control Systems (ISCS), Osaka, Japan, March 2025.
Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Pauline Bernard, Florent Di Meglio, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Observer Design for Hybrid Systems: Applications to Robotics and Hybrid Dynamics, 11th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC), Delft, Netherlands, July 2024.