Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon

Description of legal entity the legal entity and its main tasks

INSA Lyon is an Engineering School dedicated to Applied Sciences and operates a fully integrated Education, Research and Innovation approach. Organised around 5 thematic fields involving 23 laboratories, research at INSA involves over 700 researchers and professors, 650 PhD students and carries over a thousand industrial contracts and 200 funded research projects. INSA has the experience of 57 FP7 and Horizon 2020 European projects.
AMPERE is a multidisciplinary research laboratory structured around three main departments: Methods for Systems Engineering, Electrical Energy and Bio-Engineering. It comprises some 80 permanent research staff, 16 technical and administrative staff and around 80 non-permanent research staff. The Methods for Systems Engineering department, which is mostly implicated in this project, focuses on the development of analysis and synthesis methodologies for multi-physical systems. The main cornerstone of the department is its expertise in the area of Modeling and Control Systems Engineering, Model inversion, and related disciplines. The Methods for Systems Engineering department is comprised by about 35 permanent staff and 40 temporary staff (PhD, Postdocs…).

Tasks and justification in INSTABAT

INSA’s contribution in this project is described below:

  • WP4: Leading of the WP. Model reduction based on a Newman-type electro-chemical battery model (1D+1D). Development of virtual sensors based on the reduced electro-chemical model (PDE-based). Discretisation for implementation of proposed virtual sensors. Inclusion of thermal dependence models for the coefficients of the reduced electro-chemical model as well as possible sources of exchange inhomogeneities. Integration of possible sensor information and integration of the virtual sensors with the BMS algorithm. Validation in silico of proposed approach before test on integrated demonstrator.
  • WP5: Integration of virtual sensors into lab-on-a-cell proof of concept
  • Other minor contributions:INSA will have minor contributions on the definition of requirements, dissemination and communication, as well as on the management activities.

CV of the persons

Dr. Federico Bribiesca-Argomedo

INSA, 69100 Lyon, France


Dr. Federico Bribiesca-Argomedo obtained his B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) in Monterrey, Mexico with highest honors (Mención Honorífica de Excelencia). He obtained his M.Sc. in Control Systems from Grenoble INP in Grenoble, France with high honors (mention Très Bien) and his PhD in Control Systems from the Université de Grenoble working on the safety factor profile control of a tokamak plasma under the supervision of Christophe Prieur and Emmanuel Witrant. For two years, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego under the supervision of Professor Miroslav Krstic where he led the UC San Diego work on a US Department of Energy ARPA-E Grant on Advanced Battery Management Systems (part of the AMPED project) in collaboration with BOSCH LLC, Cobasys and the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2014, he has held the position of Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, tenured in 2015) at INSA Lyon, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Génie Mécanique), Ampère Lab in Lyon, France.

Pr. Eric Bideaux

INSA, 69100 Lyon, France


Pr. Eric Bideaux received a Mechanical Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Nantes in 1991, and a PhD in Automation and Control from the University of Franche-Comté in 1995 before joining the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon. Since 2006 he is professor at the Ampère Lab (University of Lyon). His research fields are control engineering applied to mechatronic and fluid power systems with a focus on Bond Graph formalism for modelling, simulation and design of energy efficient systems. He has worked with electro-chemical energy storage/production devices including supercapacitors and fuel cells as well as with hybridisation problems.

Dr. Damien Eberard

INSA, 69100 Lyon, France


Dr. Damien Eberard obtained his PhD in Control Systems from the University of Lyon, France, working on the geometric representation of thermodynamics processes under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Maschke. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, working on the discretisation of port-Hamiltonian systems using mixed finite elements under the supervision of Professor Arjan van der Schaft. He is currently Associate Professor at INSA Lyon, Department of Environmental Engineering, Ampère Lab in Lyon. His research interests are modelling, simulation and control of physical systems from an energy-based viewpoint (in particular, port-Hamiltonian systems and Hamiltonian PDE's).

Dr. Michael Di Loreto

INSA, 69100 Lyon, France


Dr. Michael Di Loreto obtained the M.Sc. degree in control systems from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 2003 and a PhD degree in control theory from Université de Nantes in 2006. Since 2007, he is an associate professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at INSA de Lyon (Laboratoire Ampère). His main research interests are in time-delay systems, distributed parameter systems and linear control theory. He has a particular expertise in model approximation for Partial Differential Equations by means of time-delay systems.

Dr. Alaa Hijazi

INSA, 69100 Lyon, France


Dr. Alaa Hijazi received a PhD degree in electrical engineering in 2010 from the Lyon 1 University, France. In 2011, he joined INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) as Associate Professor at Ampère laboratory. His research interests concerns control and observation of energy storage system. More specially, he studies new control theories for BMS system.

Dr. Paolo Massioni

INSA, 69100 Lyon, France


Dr. Paolo Massioni got his M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2005, and his PhD in Control Engineering from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher jointly at the University of Paris 13 and at the National French Aerospace Lab (ONERA), both in France. Since 2012, he is a permanent academic staff member of the Laboratoire Ampère, at the French National Institute for Applied Science (INSA) of Lyon, France. Dr. Massioni is a past recipient of a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Marie Curie COFUND Action. His main research interests are distributed control and Kalman filtering for large-scale systems, and non-linear systems performance.

LIST of relevant publications

  • Moura, S. J., F. Bribiesca Argomedo, R. Klein, A. Mirtabatabaei and M. Krstic, “Battery State Estimation for a Single Particle Model with Electrolyte Dynamics”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. Vol. 25, Issue 2. pp. 453-468. March 2017
  • M.Di Loreto, S. Damak, D. Eberard, X. Brun, “Approximation of linear distributed parameter systems by delay systems”, Automatica, Elsevier, 2016, 68, pp.162-168.
  • A. Hijazi, P. Kreczanik, E. Bideaux, P. Venet, G. Clerc, et al., “Thermal Network Model of Supercapacitors Stack”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012, 59 (2), pp.979 - 987
  • A. Lièvre, A. Sari, P.l Venet, A. Hijazi, M. Ouattara-Brigaudet, et al., “Practical Online Estimation of Lithium-ion Battery Apparent Series Resistance for Mild Hybrid Vehicles”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016, 65 (6), pp. 4505-4511
  • M. Piffard, M. Gerard, R. da Fonseca, P. Massioni, E. Bideaux, “Sliding mode observer for proton exchange membrane fuel cell: automotive application”, Journal of Power Sources, Elsevier, 2018, 338, pp.71-77

List of relevant previous projects

  • The Ampère lab is collaborating in 2 Energetic transition institutes (ITE): one on the future high voltage electrical networks, the SuperGrid Institute (SGI), the other on Electrical mobility, VEDECOM.
  • Ampère is a partner in the EMC2 project on inductive charge of electrical vehicles (consortium: Adeneo, EFI, Magtech, CARMEDIALAB, CTC CARTECH).
  • The Ampere has recently integrated the IRN (International Research Network) FACES (French-Australian research network on Conversion and Energy Storage for stand-alone & maritime applications).
  • Ampere has also a collaboration with the University of California Berkeley (USA) (publication and project proposals) on state and parameter estimation for Lithium-ion batteries based on electro-chemical models with application in electro-mobility. These approaches are based on more fundamental research work.
  • Several PhD thesis at Ampere focus on the study of the ageing mechanism of electrical energy storage systems including advanced BMS functionalities such as SoC balancing according to SoH, second live estimation, etc.