William Jussiau
About
Hei,
My name is William Jussiau, I arrived at NTNU-ITK in April 2025 to work on bird strike prevention for wind turbines.
- I graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO (Aerospace Graduate School in Toulouse, France) in 2018 as an Aerospace Control Engineer.
- I worked for Safran Electronics & Defense near Paris, France, from 2018 to 2020 as a Research Control Engineer, mainly on aircraft anticollision with MPC and trajectory optimization techniques.
- I started a PhD at ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab late 2020, which I defended in July 2024. This research was focused on developing control laws for suppressing oscillations in oscillator fluid flows.
Feel free to contact me!
Competencies
Research
- My previous research (PhD at ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab) consisted in developing controller synthesis methods for oscillator fluid flows. Oscillator flows form a particular class of laminar flows that exhibit an unstable equilibrium and an attractor (limit cycle, quasi-periodic attractor or chaotic attractor). The most well-known oscillator flow is the flow past a cylinder exhibiting the von Kármán vortex street. The control challenge lie in the high-dimensionality and nonlinearity of the system.
- My current research at NTNU-ITK consists in developing control laws for bird avoidance with wind turbines, as part of the SKARV project with SINTEF.
Publications
Data-driven stabilization of an oscillating flow with linear time-invariant controllers
In this paper (published in a fluid dynamics journal), we propose advances towards the data-based control of periodic oscillator flows with a sequence of linear time-invariant controllers.
Control of a Class of High-Dimensional Nonlinear Oscillators: Application to Flow Stabilization
In this article, we propose a simulation-based method using Youla parametrization to produce linear time-invariant controllers suppressing oscillations in oscillator flows.
My publications focus on the control of oscillator flows at low Reynolds number (e.g. the Von Kármán vortex street behind a cylinder, or the flow over an open cavity) with linear time-invariant controllers.
Teaching
- 2021-2023: Assistant teacher in Signal Processing (level: BSc) at Université de Toulouse, France.
- 2021-2023: Assistant teacher in Signal Processing (level: Advanced Masters) at ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France.
- 2021-2023: Assistant teacher in Control Theory and Applications (levels: BSc, MSc) at ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France.
Supervision
- 2022-2024: Supervision of 2 MSc projects at ISAE-SUPAERO (Toulouse, France) on MPC/RG for uncertain constrained systems, with an application to quadrotors.