Control Electrical

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Toronto, ON, Canada

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January 25, 2013

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Benoit Boulet's Resume

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Toronto, Ontario, M5A 4M8

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Control System Design. I enjoy developing and applying advanced

control techniques to real-world problems. My background in modeling

and robust control of robotic and aerospace systems has prepared me

to undertake challenging projects in these areas.

1992-1995:, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering1990-1992:, M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering1986-1990: Université Laval, B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

Consulting Control Engineer at Hatch Associates since 1995.

Simulation and control of high power smelting furnaces for non-ferrous

metals.

UNIX assistant system administrator, Systems Control Group,

University of Toronto, 1995.

Teaching assistant in the graduate course Systems Control,

U. of T., 1993 and 1994, and in the undergraduate courses Signals

and Systems II, U. of T., 1994, and Robotics and Control Systems

Laboratory, McGill U., 1991.

Model identification and robust controller designs for a large

flexible space structure experimental testbed at the Institute for

Aerospace Studies, U. of T., 1994.

Modeling and control of hydraulic actuators at the McGill

Research Centre for Intelligent Machines, 1991.

Software engineer at Spinex Medical Technologies,

Montr&eacuteal, summer of 1990. I refined many C functions for the

Spinoscope and modified an algorithm computing the kinematics

of the patient's spine.

Communication equipment supplies manager at Bell Canada,

Qu&eacutebec, summer of 1989. I developed and directed a one-million-dollar

project for province-wide supply of circuit boards to centrals.

Speaker in three technical sessions at the 1994 American Control

Conference. Speaker at the 1995 IEEE Conf. on Control Applications.

Vice-President of the Groupement des &eacutetudiant(e)s en g&eacutenie

&eacutelectrique, Universit&eacute Laval, 1988-1989.

Hands-on experience with the following hardware: TMS320C30 DSP,

Moore Mycro 352 industrial controller, 68HC11 controller, various A/D, D/A

cards, etc.

Control design techniques: H-infinity, µ-synthesis, Pole-placement,

LQG, Loop Shaping, PID, Smith Predictor, etc.

B. Boulet, B.A. Francis, P.C. Hughes, and T. Hong, Robust Control of Large Flexible Space Structures Using a Coprime Factor Plant Description. Proc. of the 1994 American Control Conference.

B. Boulet and B.A. Francis, Consistency of Experimental Frequency-Response Data with Coprime Factor Plant Models. Proceedings of the 1994 American Control Reference.

B. Boulet, B.A. Francis, P.C. Hughes, and T. Hong, Uncertainty Modelling and Experiments in H-infinity Control of Large Flexible Space Structures. 1995 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Albany, New-York.

Also accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

B. Boulet, B.A. Francis, P.C. Hughes, and T. Hong, Daisy: A Large Flexible Space Structure Testbed for Advanced Control Experiments. Invited paper, 1995 European Control Conference.

B. Boulet, B.A. Francis, P.C. Hughes, and T. Hong, Control Design for a Large Flexible Space Structure Experimental Testbed by µ-Synthesis. Submitted to the Int. Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 1995.

B. Boulet, L. Daneshmend, V. Hayward, and C. Nemri, System Identification and Modelling of a High Performance Hydraulic Actuator. Experimental Robotics II, The Second International Symposium, R. Chatila, G. Hirzinger (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 1994.

B. Boulet, B.A. Francis, P.C. Hughes, and T. Hong, Daisy: A Large

Flexible Space Structure Testbed for Advanced Control Experiments.

Trends in Control, a European Perspective. A. Isidori, Ed.,

Springer, 1995.

Modeling and Robust Control of Large Flexible Space Structures.

Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 1996.

Modeling and Control of a Robotic Joint with In-Parallel Redundant Actuators. M.Eng. Thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, McGill University, 1992.

B. Boulet, B.A. Francis, P.C. Hughes, and T. Hong, Robust H-infinity Control of Large Flexible Space Structures Using a Coprime Factor Plant Description. Systems Control Group Report No. 9401, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 1994.

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B. Boulet and B.A. Francis, Consistency of Experimental Frequency-Response Data with Coprime Factor Plant Models. Systems Control Group Report No. 9402, Version 2, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 1995.

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B. Boulet and V. Hayward, Robust Control of a Robot Joint with Hydraulic Actuator Redundancy. Part I: Theory, Application, and Controller Design. Report No. TR-CIM-93-6, McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines, 1993. Report No. TR-CIM-93-6, McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines, 1993.

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B. Boulet and V. Hayward, Robust Control of a Robot Joint with Hydraulic Actuator Redundancy. Part II: Practical Variations and Experimentation. Report No. TR-CIM-93-6, McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machine, 1993.

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Scholarships and AwardsWalter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship, 1994-1995 and 1995-1996

University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1994-1995

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC),

Post Graduate Scholarship, 1991-1994

Bourse d'&eacutetude du Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs

et l'aide &agrave la recherche, Qu&eacutebec (FCAR), 1993-1994.

Bourse Girardin-Vaillancourt de la Fondation Desjardins, 1991-1992

BP Canada's Award of Excellence, 1988-1989

Bell Canada's Engineering and Computer Science Award of Excellence,

1988-1989

Professional SocietiesIngénieur junior, Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec; Member of the IEEE.

Languages

French, English, C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, Matlab, Mathematica, etc.

Hobbies

Windsurfing, skiing, reading, etc.

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