Research activities

SECO’s research activities focus on:

Techniques for analyzing flows in cellular metabolic networks taking into account the uncertainties of measurements, and the indeterminacy linked to the lack of measurements.
Techniques for reducing metabolic models to macroscopic models.
Modeling and parametric estimation of complex biological systems.
Representation of nonlinear dynamical systems using the Koopman operator and the Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition (EDMD) method.
Model-free optimization techniques of the Extremum Seeking type.
Agent-based models, for the representation of complex systems.
Hybrid modeling of systems based on knowledge and machine learning.
State estimation and control of distributed parameter systems.
Hierarchical control of industrial processes using cloud and edge computing.
Robust and safe control of drones and optimal trajectory planning.

Our unit is also associated with the following UMONS research institutes :