Prof. Dr. Ralf Wunderlich (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus) will give a talk on Stochastic Optimal Control of Heating Systems with a Geothermal Energy Storage at 04:00 pm in 2/N113 (in conjunction with Chemnitzer Mathematisches Kolloquium). Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team members, Dr. Zühal Kurt and Dr. Ángeles Hoyo Sánchez who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Zühal was working on graph-based recommendation systems in her PhD dissertation at the Anadolu University (Türkiye). She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Fraunhofer IDMT and developed an explainable knowledge graph-based news recommendation system as an AI4Media Horizon project WG member. On the other hand, she had studies in medical image processing, machine learning and computer vision research areas.
Ángeles received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Electronic Engineering and an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Almería (Spain) in 2016 and 2018, respectively. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Almería in 2023. Her research interests focus on PID control, control education, process control, and robust control, with applications to agricultural processes, solar plants, and biotechnology.

The following press release from Freie Presse gives insights into the goals of our train-related project, where, for example, a braking control is developed for precise braking of passenger trains.

Our team member Murali Padmanabha has successfully defended his dissertation with the title Optimal Control Strategies for Synergetic Insect and Plant Production: Maximizing Yield, Resource Efficiency and Sustainability.

The ACSD Lab presents a peer-reviewed publication at the Conference on Decision and Control 2024, which takes place in Milano on December 16th-19th. The paper is titled:

• Tube-Based MPC for Two-Timescale Discrete-Time Nonlinear Processes with Robust Control Contraction Metrics

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Julius Frontzek who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Julius studied Mechanical Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for his bachelor's degree and Computational Engineering Science at TU Berlin for his master's degree.

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Sriram Saravanan who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Sriram studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at Anna University Chennai for his bachelor's degree and Automation and Robotics at TU Dortmund for his master's degree.

Our team members Mr. Hauck, Mr. Moreno-Mora, Mrs. Tafat, and Mr. Sathyanarayanan presented their peer-reviewed publications at the European Control Conference 2024, which took 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

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Patrick Nestler who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Patrick studied Electrical Engineering for his bachelors and masters degree at Technische Universität Chemnitz. He previously worked at the professorship as a research assistant and wrote his bachelors and masters thesis in the area of CEA.