Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Schaum (University of Hohenheim) will give a talk on Monitoring and control of balance models with focus on bio- and food process engineering at 1:15 pm in 2/W065. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted a new project for the professorship titled "Characterizing and approximating the boundary of the admissible set". The project focusses on the calculation of the admissible set, which consists of all safe states of a control system, offering insights into system behavior and possible control strategies to ensure the safety of the system. The method under consideration has been applied to energy, biological and robotic systems in the past, and its theoretical aspects will be significantly developed within the project. The research is being carried out in cooperation with Prof. Jean Lévine from the Mines Paris – PSL.

Prof. Dr. Jaime Moreno (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) will visit our professorship to strengthen our cooperation.

Our team members will present six peer-reviewed publications at the European Control Conference 2024, which will take place in Stockholm on June 25th-28th. The papers are titled:

• Observability Analysis of PEM Fuel Cell Systems with Anode Recirculation
• Predictive Control with Terminal Costs Based on Online Learning Using Value Iteration
• Global observability analysis of a growth model for insects farming
• Deep Neural Network based Optimal Control of Greenhouses
• Quantized Deep Neural Network Based Optimal Control of Greenhouses on a Microcontroller
• Comparison of Unscented Kalman Filter Design for Agricultural Anaerobic Digestion Model

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Our former group member Dr. Tim Aschenbruck receives this year's university award for the best thesis in 2023 of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. His dissertation is entitled On Invariant Sets and the Theory of Barriers for Constrained Systems and their Applications. After 2020 and 2021, Dr. Aschenbruck’s thesis is the third awarded thesis of a team member. Siemens AG is the sponsor of the award.

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team members, Jonathan Raecke and Mohamed Mansour who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Jonathan studied Mechanical Engineering for his diploma degree at Technische Universität Dresden.
Mohamed studied mechatronics at the German University in Cairo for his master's degree.

On 2023/10/17 from 10:00 am to approx. 05:00 pm, a seminar on Basics of train operation (Grundlagen des Bahnbetriebs) takes place in room 2/NK004. It will be held in German and be given by an employee of the Institut für Bahntechnik. Everybody is heartily invited.

The following press release from TU Chemnitz gives insights into the goals of the ResKIPP project, where research on new sensor systems for the production of high-quality and healthy plant-based foodstuff is done, where the use of resources is reduced simultaneously. Further information are also published in this, this, and this press release.