Annuaire des chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs de Centrale Lille
Nicolas Espitia is a CNRS Researcher with the Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille, Lille, France.
He received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering and the second B.S. degree in mathematics from the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito, Bogota, Colombia, in 2011 and 2012, respectively, the M.S. degree in systems, control, and information technology from Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in control systems from the GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble University, Grenoble, in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Inria Lille Nord-Europe.
He serves as Associate Editor for European Journal of Control, Systems & Control Letters and Automatica. His research focuses on two main areas: i) Sampled-data and event-triggered control of complex systems modeled by Distributed Parameter Systems (namely, Partial Differential Equations, and Time-Delay Systems), with applications in traffic flow and multi-agent systems; ii) Prescribed-time convergence for Distributed Parameter Systems, aiming to enhance stability
and performance.
Prescribed-Time Newton Extremum Seeking using Delays and Time-Periodic Gains
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, In press, ⟨10.1109/TAC.2026.3660191⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Jorge Poveda,Miroslav Krstic
Compensation of Input Quantization in Event-Triggered Boundary Control of 2×2 Hyperbolic Systems
2026
Florent Koudohode,Nicolás Espitia,Jukka-Pekka Humaloja,Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
Homogeneous boundary control for a 1D reaction-diffusion PDE: modal decomposition approach
Automatica, 2026, 187, pp.112910. ⟨10.1016/j.automatica.2026.112910⟩
Mericel Ayamou,Nicolas Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Emilia Fridman
Fixed-Time Compensation of Input-Dependent Hydraulic Input Delay For a Model of a Microfluidic Process Under Zweifach-Fung Effect
European Control Conference 2026, Jul 2026, Reyjavik, Iceland
Salim Zekraoui,Delphine Bresch-Pietri,Nicolás Espitia,Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis,Nicolas Petit
Output Quantization Compensation in Event-Triggered Backstepping Control of 2 × 2 Hyperbolic Systems ⋆
2026
Florent Koudohode,Nicolás Espitia,Jukka-Pekka Humaloja,Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
Event-triggered gain scheduling of 2 × 2 linear hyperbolic PDEs with time and space varying coupling coefficients
Automatica, 2025, ⟨10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112455⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Jean Auriol
Homogeneous boundary control design for a 1D viscous Burgers equation : modal decomposition approach
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 2025, 42 (4), ⟨10.1093/imamci/dnaf033⟩
Mericel Ayamou,Andrey Polyakov,Nicolás Espitia,Emilia Fridman
Output-feedback stabilization in prescribed-time of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs with boundary input delay
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, In press, ⟨10.1109/TAC.2025.3535189⟩
Salim Zekraoui,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti,Miroslav Krstic
Event-Triggered PDE-Based Control of Freeway Traffic Flow with Connected/Automated Vehicles
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 2025, 42
Xinyong Wang,Ying Tang,Nicolas Espitia,Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
Homogeneous predictor feedback for a 1D reaction-diffusion equation with input delay
European Journal of Control, 2025, 85, pp.101363. ⟨10.1016/j.ejcon.2025.101363⟩
Mericel Ayamou,Nicolás Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Emilia Fridman
Event-triggered boundary control of an unstable reaction diffusion PDE with input delay
Systems and Control Letters, 2024, 186, ⟨10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105775⟩
Florent Koudohode,Nicolás Espitia,Miroslav Krstic
Predictor-Based Prescribed-Time Output Feedback for a Parabolic PDE
2024 American Control Conference (ACC), Jul 2024, Toronto, France. pp.1006-1011, ⟨10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644860⟩
Salim Zekraoui,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti,Miroslav Krstic
Prescribed-time stability in switching systems with resets: A hybrid dynamical systems approach
Systems and Control Letters, 2024, 193, pp.105910. ⟨10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105910⟩
Daniel Ochoa,Nicolás Espitia,Jorge Poveda
Finite-dimensional homogeneous boundary control for a 1D reaction-diffusion equation
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024), Dec 2024, Milan (Italie), France
Mericel Ayamou,Nicolas Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Emilia Fridman
Event-triggered gain scheduling of 2 × 2 hyperbolic PDEs with time and space varying coupling coefficients
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024), Dec 2024, Milan, France. ⟨10.1109/cdc56724.2024.10886831⟩
Jean Auriol,Nicolás Espitia
Finite/Fixed-time stabilization of a chain of integrators with input delay via PDE-based nonlinear backstepping approach
Automatica, 2023, 155
Salim Zekraoui,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Lyapunov-based nonlinear boundary control design with predefined convergence for a class of 1D linear reaction-diffusion equations
European Journal of Control, 2023, 74
Salim Zekraoui,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Locally Homogeneous Finite-time Stabilization of Quasi-Linear Systems
The 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2023, Dec 2023, Singapore, France
Mericel Ayamou,Andrey Polyakov,Nicolás Espitia
Traffic flow control on cascaded roads by event-triggered output feedback
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2022, ⟨10.1002/rnc.6122⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Jean Auriol,Huan Yu,Miroslav Krstic
Finite-time estimation of second-order LTI systems in the presence of delayed measurement
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, In press, ⟨10.1002/rnc.6224⟩
Salim Zekraoui,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Prescribed-time control for a class of semilinear hyperbolic PDE-ODE systems
IFAC 4th Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Sep 2022, Kiel, Germany
Abdurrahman Irscheid,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti,Joachim Rudolph
Input Delay Compensation in Prescribed-Time of Boundary-Actuated Reaction-Diffusion PDEs
2021 American Control Conference (ACC), May 2021, New Orleans, United States. pp.274-279, ⟨10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9483058⟩
Drew Steeves,Nicolás Espitia,Miroslav Krstic,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Event-triggered gain scheduling of reaction-diffusion PDEs
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2021
Iasson Karafyllis,Nicolás Espitia,Miroslav Krstic
Event-triggered boundary control of constant-parameter reaction-diffusion PDEs: a small-gain approach
Automatica, 2021, ⟨10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109562⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Iasson Karafyllis,Miroslav Krstic
Observer-based Event-triggered Boundary Control of a Class of Reaction-Diffusion PDEs
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, In press, ⟨10.1109/TAC.2021.3094648⟩
Bhathiya Rathnayake,Mamadou Diagne,Nicolás Espitia,Iasson Karafyllis
Predictor-feedback prescribed-time stabilization of LTI systems with input delay
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, In press, ⟨10.1109/TAC.2021.3093527⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Event-triggered output feedback control of traffic flow on cascaded roads
Advances in Distributed Parameter Systems, pp 243-267, 2021, 978-3-030-94766-8. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-94766-8_11⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Jean Auriol,Huan Yu,Miroslav Krstic
Sensor Delay-Compensated prescribed-Time Observer for LTI Systems
Automatica, 2021, 135
Nicolás Espitia,Drew Steeves,Wilfrid Perruquetti,Miroslav Krstic
Prescribed-time predictor control of LTI systems with distributed input delay
60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2021, Austin (virtual), United States
Salim Zekraoui,Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Event-triggered Varying Speed Limit Control of Stop-and-go Traffic
IFAC World Congress 2020, Jul 2020, Berlin, Germany
Nicolás Espitia,Huan Yu,Miroslav Krstic
Observer-based event-triggered boundary control of a linear 2 × 2 hyperbolic systems
Systems and Control Letters, 2020, 138, pp.104668. ⟨10.1016/j.sysconle.2020.104668⟩
Nicolás Espitia
A note on non asymptotic stabilization of linear time delay systems
59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). December 14-18, 2020., Dec 2020, Jeju Island, South Korea
Wilfrid Perruquetti,Nicolás Espitia,Michel Dambrine
Prescribed-time predictor control of LTI systems with input delay
59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)., Dec 2020, Jeju Island (virtual), South Korea
Nicolás Espitia,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Event-triggered boundary control of constant-parameter reaction-diffusion PDEs: a small-gain approach
2020 American Control Conference (ACC), Jul 2020, Denver, United States. ⟨10.23919/ACC45564.2020.9147807⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Iasson Karafyllis,Miroslav Krstic
Boundary time-varying feedbacks for fixed-time stabilization of constant-parameter reaction-diffusion systems
Automatica, 2019, 103, pp.398-407. ⟨10.1016/j.automatica.2019.02.013⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Denis Efimov,Wilfrid Perruquetti
On local finite-time stabilization of the Viscous Burgers equation via boundary switched linear feedback
CDC 2019 - 58thIEEE Conference on Decision and Control,, Dec 2019, Nice, France
Nicolás Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Emilia Fridman
Some characterizations of boundary time-varying feedbacks for fixed-time stabilization of reaction-diffusion systems
CPDE'19 - 3rd IFAC/IEEE CSS Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, May 2019, Oaxaca, Mexico
Nicolás Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Denis Efimov,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Dynamic boundary control synthesis of coupled PDE-ODEs for communication networks under fluid flow modeling
CDC 2017 - 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2017, Melbourne, Australia. pp.1260-1265, ⟨10.1109/cdc.2017.8263829⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Antoine Girard,Nicolas Marchand,Christophe Prieur
Event-based boundary control of a linear 2x2 hyperbolic system via backstepping approach
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018, 63 (8), pp. 2686 - 2693. ⟨10.1109/TAC.2017.2774011⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Antoine Girard,Nicolas Marchand,Christophe Prieur
On continuous boundary time-varying feedbacks for fixed-time stabilization of coupled reaction-diffusion systems
CDC 2018 - 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2018, Miami Beach, United States
Nicolás Espitia,Andrey Polyakov,Denis Efimov,Wilfrid Perruquetti
Event-based control of networks modeled by a class of infinite dimensional systems
Automatic. Université Grenoble Alpes, 2017. English. ⟨NNT : 2017GREAT038⟩
Nicolás Espitia
Stabilization of Boundary Controlled Hyperbolic PDEs via Lyapunov-Based Event Triggered Sampling and Quantization
CDC 2017 - 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2017, Melbourne, Australia. pp.3112 - 3117, ⟨10.1109/CDC.2017.8263830⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Aneel Tanwani,Sophie Tarbouriech
Fluid-flow modeling and stability analysis of communication networks
IFAC WC 2017 - 20th IFAC World Congress, Jul 2017, Toulouse, France
Nicolás Espitia,Antoine Girard,Nicolas Marchand,Christophe Prieur
Event-based stabilization of linear systems of conservation laws using a dynamic triggering condition
NOLCOS 2016 - 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Aug 2016, Monterey, CA, United States
Nicolás Espitia,Antoine Girard,Nicolas Marchand,Christophe Prieur
Event-based control of linear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
Automatica, 2016, 70, pp.275-287. ⟨10.1016/j.automatica.2016.04.009⟩
Nicolás Espitia,Antoine Girard,Nicolas Marchand,Christophe Prieur
