Benoit Boulet's Resume

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Toronto, Ontario, M5A 4M8
(416) 978-4124 (office), (416) 777-0905 (home)
benoit@control.toronto.edu
boulet@hatchcos.com

• Education
• Experience
• Publications
• Contributions to Books
• Theses
• Technical Reports
• Additional Information

Objective

Education

• 1992-1995: University of Toronto, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
• 1990-1992: McGill University, M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
• 1986-1990: Université Laval, B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

Experience

• 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, Montréal, 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, Québec, 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 étudiant(e)s en génie électrique, Université 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.

Publications

• 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.

Contributions to Books

• 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.

Theses

• 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.

Technical Reports

• 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. (Abstract)
• 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. (Abstract)
• 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. (Abstract)
• 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. (Abstract)