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Guilherme Espindola-Winck

Associate Professor
Centrale Lille Institute
guilherme.espindola (at) centralelille.fr
guilherme.espindola-winck (at) univ-lille.fr


Short Bio

Guilherme Espindola-Winck received his degree in Control and Automation Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and his Master’s degree in Signal Processing and Dynamic Systems from Polytech Angers, the engineering school of the University of Angers, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in Automatic Control from the University of Angers, France. He is currently an Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale de Lille and a researcher within the UMR CNRS CRIStAL at the University of Lille, France.

His research interests include idempotent semirings and their applications to Discrete Event Systems (CT SED), with a focus on stochastic and set-membership estimation.

He is also interested in parametric curve-based state-space representation approaches for the control of robotic systems, including cooperative and synchronized control of fleets of autonomous robots and shape control of soft-continuum manipulators.

Peer-reviewed journal publications

  1. SMT-Based and Fixed-Point Approaches for State Estimation in Max-Plus Linear Systems
    Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
    2025, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems To Appear

  2. On the Set-Estimation of Uncertain Max-Plus Linear Systems
    Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
    2025, Automatica
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  3. Stochastic Filtering Scheme of Implicit Forms of Uncertain Max-Plus Linear Systems
    Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Rafael Santos-Mendes
    2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
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    4. International conferences

    1. Parametric curve-based State-Space Representation for Shape Control of Soft-Continuum Manipulators
      Loic Bal, Steeve Mbakop, Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Christophe Sueur, Rochdi Merzouki
      8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025), Lausanne, Switzerland To Appear

    2. Towards a Comfortable Model-based Control of a fleet of Communicated wheelchairs
      Yehya Sharif, Gilles Tagne, Meziane Labri, Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Rochdi Merzouki, Christophe Sueur
      11th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE 2025), Lille, France To Appear

    3. Comparing Disjunctive and Concise Approaches for Set-Guaranteed Estimation in Max-Plus Linear Systems
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
      17th IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2024), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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    4. Criteria stochastic filtering of max-plus discrete event systems with bounded random variables
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Rafael Santos-Mendes
      1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Complex Systems (COSY 2022), Bologna, Italy
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    5. Efficient State-Estimation of Uncertain Max-Plus Linear Systems with High Observation Noise
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Renato Markele Ferreira Cândido, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
      16th IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2022), Prague, Czech Republic
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    6. Max-plus polyhedra-based state characterization for uMPL systems
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
      European Control Conference (ECC 2022), London, United Kingdom
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      7. National conferences

      1. Sur l'estimation d'état des systèmes max-plus
        Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
        Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (MSR 21), 2O21, Paris, France
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      2. Analyse d'atteignabilité des systèmes (max,+)-linéaires à l'aide des polyèdres tropicaux
        Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Mehdi Lhommeau, Laurent Hardouin
        Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (MSR 19), 2O19, Angers, France
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        3. Doctoral thesis

        1. On the stochastic filtering of max-plus linear systems
          Guilherme Espindola-Winck
          University of Angers, 2022, Thesis in Automatic Control, Robotics and Production Systems
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          2. Further details are available on my ResearchGate profile.

          Teaching

          IG2I

            Automation Engineering:
            -Automation (PLC programming)
            -Industrial Local Networks and Distributed Automation
            -Petri Nets (PN) and PN-based Distributed Automation
            -Supervision of Industrial Systems
            -Industrial Computing and Real-Time Systems

          ITEEM

            Industrial Innovation:
            -Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Production Systems using Discrete Event System Simulation

          Ecole Centrale de Lille

            Automation Engineering:
            -Automation (PLC programming)
            -Discrete Event Systems: Petri Nets, Idempotent Semirings and Automata Theory
            -Supervision of Industrial Systems
            -Industrial Computing and Real-Time Systems
            Industrial Innovation:
            -Scheduling and Production Planning
            -Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Production Systems using Discrete Event System Simulation
            Computer Science:
            -High Level Python Programming
            -Machine Learning and Deep Learning

          Services

            I am a member of the Technical/Programme Committee and an instructor for the french summer school on Discrete Event Systems: Ecole SED (CT SED de la SAGIP) .

          Contact

          Address: Cité scientifique CS 20048 59651 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex FRANCE
          Office Location: Ecole Centrale de Lille - C-329
          Email: guilherme.espindola (at) centralelille.fr
          Phone: +33 (0)3 20 33 54 92