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IRISA - CNRS

Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu

Rennes, France

esteban.restrepo@irisa.fr

I am a CNRS Tenured Researcher (Chargé de Recherche) in the Rainbow team at IRISA - CNRS, Rennes, France.

Previously, from February 2023 to October 2024 I have been a post-doctoral researcher in the Rainbow Team at IRISA - CNRS, Rennes, France, working with Dr. Paolo Robuffo Giordano. From January 2022 to January 2023, I was a Postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, working with Dr. Dimos V. Dimarogonas.

In November 2021 I successfully defended my thesis titled “Coordination control of autonomous robotic multi-agent systems under constraints,” obtaining the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the Université Paris-Saclay. I carried out my Ph.D. from October 2018 to November 2021 at ONERA and the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S, UMR 8506) under the supervision of Dr. Antonio Loría, Dr. Julien Marzat, and Dr. Ioannis Sarras.

I obtained the MSc degree from Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, in 2018, and the BSc degree from Universidad EIA, Envigado, Colombia and from Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, in 2017.

My research is centered on control of multi-robot systems using tools from dynamical systems, control theory, and graph theory. In particular, my principal research activity is centered in the control design, study, and analysis of groups of autonomous robotic vehicles (ground, aerial, and marine) both from the control-theoretic and the practical-implementation perspectives.

Download my curriculum vitae here: CV.

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selected publications

  1. Automatica
    Passivity Preserving Energy-Aware Design for Multi-Dimensional Switched Systems: Application to Open Multi-Robot Systems
    Esteban Restrepo, Cristian Secchi, and Paolo Robuffo Giordano
    Automatica, 2025
  2. TCNS
    Tracking Control of Cooperative Marine Vehicles Under Hard and Soft Constraints
    Esteban Restrepo, Josef Matouš, and Kristin Y. Pettersen
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2024
  3. TAC
    Robust Consensus of High-Order Systems under Output Constraints: Application to Rendezvous of Underactuated UAVs
    Esteban Restrepo, Antonio Loría, Ioannis Sarras, and Julien Marzat
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021