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Guilherme Espindola-Winck

Associate Professor
Centrale Lille Institute
guilherme.espindola (at) centralelille.fr
guilherme.espindola-winck (at) univ-lille.fr


Short Bio

Guilherme Espindola-Winck received his degree in Control and Automation Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and his Master’s degree in Signal Processing and Dynamic Systems from Polytech Angers, the engineering school of the University of Angers, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in Automatic Control from the University of Angers, France. He is currently an Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale de Lille and a researcher within the UMR CNRS CRIStAL at the University of Lille, France.

His main research interests include idempotent semirings and their applications to Discrete Event Systems (CT SED), with a particular focus on stochastic and set-membership estimation.

He is also interested in Control & Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation, and Production Systems.

Peer-reviewed journal publications

  1. Cooperative Curve-Based Synchronized Control of a Fleet of Autonomous Robots
    Loic Bal, Steeve Mbakop, Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Christophe Sueur, Rochdi Merzouki
    2025, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
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  2. SMT-Based and Fixed-Point Approaches for State Estimation in Max-Plus Linear Systems
    Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
    2025, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
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  3. On the Set-Estimation of Uncertain Max-Plus Linear Systems
    Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
    2025, Automatica
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  4. Stochastic Filtering Scheme of Implicit Forms of Uncertain Max-Plus Linear Systems
    Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Rafael Santos-Mendes
    2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
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    5. International conferences

    1. Initial Condition Synthesis for Balanced Polytopic Timed Event Graphs
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Carlos Andrey-Maia, Armand Toguyéni
      18th IEEE Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2026), Eindhoven, Netherlands
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    2. Parametric curve-based State-Space Representation for Shape Control of Soft-Continuum Manipulators
      Loic Bal, Steeve Mbakop, Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Christophe Sueur, Rochdi Merzouki
      8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025), Lausanne, Switzerland
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    3. Towards a Comfortable Model-based Control of a fleet of Communicated wheelchairs
      Yehya Sharif, Gilles Tagne, Meziane Labri, Guilherme Espindola, Rochdi Merzouki, Christophe Sueur
      11th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE 2025), Lille, France
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    4. Comparing Disjunctive and Concise Approaches for Set-Guaranteed Estimation in Max-Plus Linear Systems
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Carlos Andrey-Maia, Armand Toguyéni
      18th IEEE Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2026), Eindhoven, Netherlands
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    5. Criteria stochastic filtering of max-plus discrete event systems with bounded random variables
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Rafael Santos-Mendes
      1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Complex Systems (COSY 2022), Bologna, Italy
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    6. Efficient State-Estimation of Uncertain Max-Plus Linear Systems with High Observation Noise
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Renato Markele Ferreira Cândido, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
      16th IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2022), Prague, Czech Republic
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    7. Max-plus polyhedra-based state characterization for uMPL systems
      Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
      European Control Conference (ECC 2022), London, United Kingdom
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      8. National conferences

      1. Application de la déquantification de Maslov pour l'étude des systèmes à événements discrets
        Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Benoît Trouillet
        Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (MSR 25), 2O25, Reims, France
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      2. Modélisation du transport de fret multimodal par Réseau de Petri de Haut Niveau, pour la résilience des ports maritimes Européens
        Armand Toguyéni, Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Benoît Trouillet, Rochdi Merzouki
        Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (MSR 25), 2O25, Reims, France
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      3. Sur l'estimation d'état des systèmes max-plus
        Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau
        Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (MSR 21), 2O21, Paris, France
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      4. Analyse d'atteignabilité des systèmes (max,+)-linéaires à l'aide des polyèdres tropicaux
        Guilherme Espindola-Winck, Mehdi Lhommeau, Laurent Hardouin
        Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (MSR 19), 2O19, Angers, France
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        5. Doctoral thesis

        1. On the stochastic filtering of max-plus linear systems
          Guilherme Espindola-Winck
          University of Angers, 2022, Thesis in Automatic Control, Robotics and Production Systems
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          2. Further details are available on my ResearchGate profile.

          Teaching

          My primary teaching focus is in the field of Control & Automation Engineering , but I also teach other topics, as described below:

          IG2I

            Automation / Control Engineering:
            -Automation (PLC programming)
            -Industrial Local Networks and Distributed Automation
            -Supervision of Industrial Systems
            Computer Science:
            -Petri Nets
            -C programming

          ITEEM

            Production / Industrial Engineering:
            -Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Production Systems
            Project:
            -Robotics and Control & Automation

          EC Lille

            Automation / Control Engineering:
            -Automation (PLC programming)
            -Supervision of Industrial Systems
            Computer Science:
            -Petri Nets, Max-Plus algebra and Automata Theory
            -High Level Python Programming
            -Machine Learning and Deep Learning
            Production / Industrial Engineering:
            -Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Production Systems

          ECPk (Beihang University - China)

            Computer Science:
            -Petri Nets, Max-Plus algebra and Automata Theory
            Production / Industrial Engineering:
            -Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Production Systems

          Services

            I am a member of the Technical/Programme Committee and an instructor for the french summer school on Discrete Event Systems: Ecole SED (CT SED de la SAGIP) . I organized the 3rd edition in Lille.

          Responsabilities

            I am the co-coordinator for first- and second-year internships (LE1 and LE2) in the preparatory cycle at IG2I .

          Contact

          Address: Cité scientifique CS 20048 59651 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex FRANCE
          Office Location: Ecole Centrale de Lille - C-329
          Email: guilherme.espindola (at) centralelille.fr
          Phone: +33 (0)3 20 33 54 92