Neuigkeiten der letzten drei Jahre

Invited guest: Asst. Prof. Tobias K. S. Ritschel, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

• 2025/09/24:   Asst. Prof. Tobias K. S. Ritschel (Technical University of Denmark) will give a talk on Dynamic price signals for indirect control of flexible energy resources at 01:00 pm online. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited guest: Prof. Dr. Andreas Ulbrich

• 2025/09/17:   Prof. Dr. Andreas Ulbrich (ETH Zürich) will give a talk on Agrarsysteme der Zukunft - Herausforderungen und Chancen des Vertical-Farmings at 04:00 pm in 2/W059. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Visitor: Mathews Mgodi, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology

• 2025/09/03 - 2026/02/27:  Mathews Mgodi, student at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (Tanzania) visits our lab during a research internship granted by DAAD scholarship for a Master’s thesis research.

Invited guest: Dr. ETH Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Gold, ETH Zürich

• 2025/08/19:   Dr. ETH Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Gold (ETH Zürich) will give a talk on The Next Chapter of Insect Farming: New Frontiers for Profitability at 02:30 pm in 2/W015. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited guest: Asst. Prof. Tobias K. S. Ritschel, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

• 2025/08/14:   Asst. Prof. Tobias K. S. Ritschel (Technical University of Denmark) will give a talk on On mixture approximations for dynamical problems with distribution variables at 03:00 pm in 2/W059. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited Guest: Prof. Jean Lévine, MINES ParisTech

• 2025/08/05 - 2025/08/15:  Prof. Jean Lévine (MINES ParisTech) will visit our lab as part of our joint DFG project "Characterizing and approximating the boundary of the admissible set".

New team member: Dr. Xiaoxi Jia

• 2025/08/01:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member Xiaoxi Jia who will strengthen our team in the interdisciplinary optimization-based control.
  Xiaoxi received her M.Sc. degree in mathematics (optimization) from Nanjing Normal University in China in 2020. She then obtained the Ph.D. degree in Optimization in 2023 from University of Würzburg in Germany with the focus on the analysis of the (safeguarded) augmented Lagrangian methods and the corresponding subproblem solvers for solving a series of structured optimization problems. After stays as a postdoctoral researcher at the Saarland University and University of Florence, she joined our group.

Invited Guest: M. Sc. Sebastian Weickert, Universität Hohenheim

• 2025/06/23:   M. Sc. Sebastian Weickert (Universität Hohenheim) will give a talk on How sustainable is the production of microalgae protein compared to conventional sources? at 08:00 am online. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Visitor: Suoud Nasir Khan, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

• 2025/05/19 - 2025/07/20:  Suoud Nasir Khan, student at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (India) visits our lab during a research internship.

Invited Guest: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maschke, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

• 2025/05/19:   Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maschke (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) will give a talk on On port-Hamiltonian systems and their use in control at 04:00 pm in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

ACSD at TUC Day 2025

• 2025/05/10:   We present exciting insights into our research and teaching in the "Wonderland Technology" section:
  • From Segway to Space-X - Experience our inverse pendulum live in action
  • Attention: food control! - We show how plant growth is automatically controlled in our growth chambers
  • The salad bar of the future - our lab tour will show you what sustainable food production could look like in the future

Invited Guest: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. rer. agr. Christian Ulrichs, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• 2025/05/07:   Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. rer. agr. Christian Ulrichs (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will give a talk on Secondary Metabolites of Plants and Their Potential for Agricultural Production at 01:15 pm in 2/N113. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

PhD thesis defense of Grigory Devadze

• 2025/04/16:   Our team member Grigory Devadze has successfully defended his dissertation with the title Constructive analysis and computer-certified formal proofs for selected control-theoretical aspects.

Habilitation defense of Prof. Dr. Pavel Osinenko

• 2025/04/14:   Our former team member Prof. Dr. Pavel Osinenko has successfully defended his habilitation with the title Reinforcement learning with guarantees.

Invited Guest: M.Sc. Christian Schnorr, Fulda University of Applied Sciences

• 2025/04/02:   M.Sc. Christian Schnorr (Fulda University of Applied Sciences) will give a talk on Feed conversion of mealworms for environmentally-closed ecosystems at 01:15 pm in 2/W020. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

New team member joins to build up our activities in energy and fuel cell systems: Leander Lerch

• 2025/03/21:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Leander Lerch who will strengthen our Energy and Fuel Cell Systems team.
  Leander studied Mechanical Engineering for his bachelor's degree at TU Darmstadt and Engineering Science for his master's degree at TU Berlin.

New team member joins to build up our CEA activities: Martin Wolf

• 2025/03/03:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Martin Wolf who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
  Martin studied Mechanical Engineering for his diploma degree at Technische Universität Dresden.

Guest: Juan Miguel Serrano Rodríguez (University of Almería, Spain)

• 2025/02/06 - 2025/03/07:  Juan Miguel Serrano Rodríguez, Ph.D. student from University of Almería in Spain, visits our professorship as part of his Ph.D. programme. He presented his research, where new ideas for collaborations with our group came up.

New team member joins to build up our activities in automatic train operation: Johann Bredner

• 2025/02/03:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Johann Bredner who will strengthen our Automatic Train Operation team.
  Johann studied Systems Engineering and Technical Cybernetics for his bachelor's and master's degree at Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg.

Invited guest: Elena Werner (Alpha-Protein GmbH)

• 2025/01/27 - 2025/01/31:  The ACSD lab welcomes Elena Werner, head of research at Alpha-Protein GmbH and PhD student at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. She visits our professorship to strengthen the collaboration with Alpha-Protein GmbH. Together we want to work on improving rearing of mealworm Tenebrio molitor.

GAMM-Fachausschuss "Dynamik und Regelungstheorie" 2025 at TU Chemnitz

• 2024/11/28:   The ACSD lab along with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manuel Schaller (Numerische Mathematik, TU Chemnitz) will host the GAMM-Fachausschuss "Dynamik und Regelungstheorie" which takes place from March 20th to March 21st 2025 at TU Chemnitz. All information as well as the registration can be found here.

AgriNext Award for Dr.-Ing. Felix Krujatz

• 2024/11/19:   Our Controlled Environment Agriculture research area leader Felix Krujatz received an AgriNext Award for Excellence in Agriculture at the AgriNext Conference (13th-14th November 2024, held in Dubai). He is one of 26 outstanding leaders who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in their fields.

Invited Guest: Prof. Dr. Ralf Wunderlich, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus

• 2024/10/24:   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.

New team members: Dr. Zühal Kurt and Dr. Ángeles Hoyo Sánchez

• 2024/10/01:   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.

Press release about automated train operation

• 2024/09/24:   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.

PhD thesis defense of Murali Padmanabha

• 2024/08/22:   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.

Contributions to the Conference on Decision and Control 2024

• 2024/07/24:   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

New team member joins to build up our CEA activities: Julius Frontzek

• 2024/07/08:   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.

New team member joins to build up our CEA activities: Sriram Saravanan

• 2024/07/01:   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.

Contributions to the European Control Conference 2024

• 2024/06/25 - 2024/06/28:  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
  Furthermore, the Advanced Control Methods for Food Production and Agriculture session was hosted by Prof. Streif as chair and Dr. Sauerteig as co-chair.

New team member joins to build up our CEA activities: Patrick Nestler

• 2024/06/01:   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.

New project in the CEA area: ENABLE

• 2024/06/01:   TU Chemnitz is a partner of the BMBF founded innovation space NewFoodSystems, which is working on concepts for sustainable and healthy future food. The innovation space provides the framework for researching and developing new, market-ready production methods and cultivation processes. From 1st of June 2024, our professorship will coordinate the NewFoodSystems project ENABLE, which aims to establish algae-based bioactive foods.

Invited Guest: Prof. Dr. Tobias Breiten, Technische Universität Berlin

• 2024/05/30:   Prof. Dr. Tobias Breiten (TU Berlin) will give a talk on An approach to nonlinear observer design via optimal control theory – the Mortensen observer at 04:00 pm in 2/W014 (in conjunction with Chemnitzer Mathematisches Colloquium). Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited Guest: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Schaum, University of Hohenheim

• 2024/04/24:   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 01:15 pm in 2/W065. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

New DFG Project on Admissible Set Approximation

• 2024/03/26:   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.

Invited Guest: Prof. Jaime Moreno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• 2024/03/25 - 2024/08/02:  Prof. Dr. Jaime Moreno (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) will visit our professorship to strengthen our cooperation.

ACSD at LinkedIn

• 2023/12/20:   Our professorship is active on LinkedIn. Feel free to connect!

University award for best PhD thesis

• 2023/11/16:   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.

New team members join to build up our CEA activities: Jonathan Raecke and Mohamed Mansour

• 2023/11/01:   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.

Seminar on basics of train operation

• 2023/10/17:   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.

Press release about AI-based monitoring of plant production (ResKIPP project)

• 2023/10/12:   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.

New research area leader Dr.-Ing. Felix Krujatz joins to build up our CEA activities

• 2023/10/02:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new research area leader Dr.-Ing. Felix Krujatz, strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team. He studied biotechnology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. After graduation, he moved to the TU Dresden (Institute of Natural Materials Technology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering) for his PhD in the field of bioreactor development and validation for phototrophic microorganisms. Since 2016 he worked as a group leader for the research group algae biotechnology and taught as a substitute professor for environmental bioprocess engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz since 2022.

New projects in the CEA area: SensCEA, OptiFood, and ResKIPP

• 2023/10/01:   Our laboratory applies and deepens its knowlege in the Controlled Environment Agriculture area with three projects starting in September and October 2023:
  • SensCEA: Sensorgestützte Effizienzsteigerung in Controlled Environment Agriculture (Sensor-based Efficiency Enhancement in Controlled Environment Agriculture)
  • OptiFood: Entwicklung nachhaltiger und wettbewerbsfähiger Insektenlebensmittel (Development of sustainable and competitive insect foods)
  • ResKIPP: Resiliente und KI-basierte Pflanzenproduktionsüberwachung (Resilient and AI-based crop production monitoring)

Prof. Streif stays at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Planetary Infrastructure Group

• 2023/10/01:   The German Aerospace Center (DLR), Planetary Infrastructure Group in Bremen, under the leadership of Dr. Daniel Schubert, is known worldwide for its research in the field of bioregenerative life support systems, controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) and the famous "Greenhouse for Space" mission EDEN ISS. During his long-term stay at DLR, Prof. Streif will contribute his knowledge in the field of CEA, in particular tailored approaches to optimal multi-level modeling and control as well as process monitoring, to further advance EDEN ISS and to eventually allow the Lunar and Mars missions (EDEN-LUNA and EDEN-Next-Gen projects).

Invited Guest: Prof. Dr. Pablo Zometa, GIU Berlin

• 2023/08/15:   Prof. Dr. Pablo Zometa (German International University Berlin) will give a talk on Model-predictive path-following control on a microcontroller using quantized deep neural networks at 1:30 pm in 2/W059. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

5 Peer-reviewed Publications on the IFAC World Congress 2023

• 2023/07/09 - 2023/07/14:  Our three team members Mr. Moreno Mora, Mrs. Guo, and Mr. Schmidt presented their papers on the IFAC World Congress 2023 - one of the most important control conferences, which took place in Yokohama, Japan on July 9th-14th. The papers are titled:
  • Predictive Control with Learning-Based Terminal Costs Using Approximate Value Iteration
  • Safety-Critical Control for Ensemble Systems
  • High-gain observer for the nitrification process including sensor dynamics
  • Nonlinear Optimal Control of Traffic Flow with Stability Guarantees
  • Critical Clearing Time Estimates of Power Grid Fauls via a Set-Based Method

New team member: Morgan Uland

• 2023/07/03:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member Morgan Uland, who will join as technical personnel for the planned bioprocess engineering laboratory. During her Bachelor's degree at the College of William & Mary, Morgan majored in Chemistry and minored in Biochemistry. She went on to obtain her masters in Advanced Functional Materials at the Chemnitz University of Technology.

Invited Guest: Dr.-Ing. Felix Krujatz, TU Dresden

• 2023/06/28:   Dr.-Ing. Felix Krujatz (Technische Universität Dresden) will give a talk on (Mikro-)Algen - vom nachwachsenden Rohstoff zur zellulären Fabrik at 1:00 pm in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited Guest: Prof. Jaime Moreno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• 2023/06/19:   Prof. Dr. Jaime Moreno (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) will give a talk on On multivalued observers for nonlinear systems at 2:00 pm in 2/W014. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Contributions to the European Control Conference 2023

• 2023/06/13 - 2023/06/16:  Our two ACSD members Mr. Hauck and Mr. Devadze presented their papers on the European Control Conference 2023, which took place in Bucharest on June 13th-16th. The papers are titled:
  • A map-based model predictive control approach for train operation
  • Formal proofs for Lyapunov stability theorems in exact real arithmetic
  • Extraction of a computer-certified SMT solver for nonlinear theories
  • Formal verification of a controller implementation in fixed-point arithmetic

Invited Guest: Ferdinand Rewicki, DLR Institute of Data Science

• 2023/06/07:   Ferdinand Rewicki (DLR Institute of Data Science) visits our laboratory. He will give a talk on Machine Learning for Space Gardening at 2023/06/07, 01:00 pm in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Visitor: Dhruvkumar Patel, IIITDM Jabalpur

• 2023/05/10 - 2023/08/05:  Dhruvkumar Patel, student at IIITDM Jabalpur (India) visited our lab during a research internship.

Invited Guest: Dario Dennstädt, Universität Paderborn & TU Ilmenau

• 2023/04/28 - 2023/04/24:  Dario Dennstädt (Universität Paderborn & Technische Universität Ilmenau) visits our laboratory. He will give a talk on Funnel-MPC at 2023/04/27, 02:15 pm in 2/NK003. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited Guest: Dr.-Ing. Daniel Schubert, DLR Institute of Space Systems

• 2023/04/26:   Dr.-Ing. Daniel Schubert (DLR Institute of Space Systems) will give a talk on From the South Pole into Space – Vegetable Cultivation in Antarctica at 11:15 am in 2/N013 (in conjunction with Physikalisches Kolloquium). Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

New team member: Jannis von Salzen

• 2023/04/24:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new external team member Jannis von Salzen. He works at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück in the group of Prof. Andreas Ulbrich and will work toward his PhD in cooperation with our lab. He will be working on process optimization and automation for cultivation of water lentils and will be part of our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.

Two new team members: Daniel Pusicha and Kiran Kumar Sathyanarayanan

• 2023/04/21:   The professorship warmly welcomes its new team members, Daniel Pusicha and Kiran Sathyanarayanan who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
  Daniel studied Engineering and Business Administration for his bachelor's degree and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for his master's degree at Leibniz University Hannover.
  Kiran studied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at Anna University Chennai for his bachelor's degree and Automation and Robotics at TU Dortmund for his master's degree.

Opening of the research facility CUBES Circle - Future Food Production

• 2023/04/14:   Our laboratory presented its research results at the opening of the worldwide unique research facility CUBES Circle - Future Food Production at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In it, a circular production process of food through three different stages of the food chain (plants, fish, and insects) is tested in the form of a production plant. The research facility is a result of the CUBES Circle consortium, which is part of the National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030 in the funding line Agricultural Systems of the Future by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Prof. Streif was elected into a steering committee of the German Agricultural Research Alliance

• 2023/03/30:   The German Agricultural Research Alliance (German: Deutsche Forschungsallianz DAFA) represents the majority of German agricultural and nutritional research institutions. The DAFA provides an integrative platform for its members and supports interdisciplinary cooperation.
  The steering committee for controlled environment agriculture is responsible for the overall strategic planning and direction of the research in Germany in this area. Prof. Streif was elected into this committee due to his long standing experience in modeling and optimal control of agricultural systems as well as the optimization of coupled food production units.
  See also here for more information and for a press release (in German) and (in English).

Invited Guest: Dr. Manuel Schaller, Technische Universität Ilmenau

• 2023/03/22:   Dr. Manuel Schaller (Technische Universität Ilmenau) will give a talk on Data-based predictive control using eDMD with guarantees at 3:00 pm in 2/W043. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Prof. Streif joins the Fraunhofer IME to promote Controlled Environment Agriculture

• 2023/03/16:   The Fraunhofer institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Section Bioresources in the city Gießen) is worldwide known i.a. for insect-based biotechnology, circular economy, biogenic production and controlled environment agriculture. Prof. Streif joins the Fraunhofer Institute to contribute with his expertise on modeling and optimal control and to further promote these mentioned research areas.

Seminar on automated driving in trains

• 2023/03/10:   On 2023/03/10 from 10:15 am to 04:15 pm, a seminar on Automated Driving in Trains (Automatisiertes Fahren in Zügen) takes place in room 2/W059. It will be held in German and be given by an employee of the Institut für Bahntechnik. Everybody is heartily invited.

PhD thesis defense of Tim Aschenbruck

• 2023/03/09:   Our team member Tim Aschenbruck has successfully defended his dissertation with the title On Invariant Sets and the Theory of Barriers for Constrained Systems and their Applications.

Invited Guest: Prof. Florin Stoican, Politehnica University of Bucharest

• 2023/02/27 - 2023/03/10:  Prof. Dr. Florin Stoican (Politehnica University of Bucharest) visits our laboratory. He will give a talk on A mixed-integer MPC with polyhedral potential field cost for collision avoidance at 2023/02/27, 2:00 pm in 2/W059 and on Computing the explicit MPC solution using the Hasse diagram of the lifted feasible domain at 2023/03/01, 2:30 pm in 2/W017. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.
  

Invited Guest: Prof. Timm Faulwasser, Technische Universität Dortmund

• 2023/02/08:   Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timm Faulwasser (Technische Universität Dortmund) will give a talk on Output Feedback for Stochastic Systems: Data-Driven Control Through the Eyes of Wiener and Willems at 3:30 pm in 2/W043. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.
  Furthermore, he will give a mini workshop on Economic Operation and Hierarchical Control - A Primer on 2023/02/08 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. in 2/W043. Further information about this mini workshop can be found here.

New project: Integration of hydrogen systems into the power grid

• 2023/02/06:   Our ACSD lab is part of the new research project HZwo:StabiGrid, where hydrogen systems are integrated into power grids to reduce the risk of grid failures and to make a positive contribution to the energy transition using hydrogen as an energy carrier. Further information are given in this press release from TU Chemnitz, as well as this and this press release.

Visitor: Vladimir Guneavoy, Skoltech Moscow

• 2023/01/20 - 2023/04/05:  Vladimir Guneavoy, student at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) Moscow visited our lab during a research internship.

New project: Smart sensors and efficient data analysis for control of fuel cells

• 2023/01/01:   Our ACSD lab is part of the new research project ReSIDA-H2 (Smarte Brennstoffzellen – Sensorintegration und effiziente Datenanalyse für die Regelung von Wasserstoffbrennstoffzellen), where hydrogen sensors are developed and integrated into fuel cells to increase their efficiency and durability. Further information are given in this press release from TU Chemnitz, as well as this, this, and this press release.

New project: MPC for demand-oriented feeding of biogas plants

• 2023/01/01:   In collaboration with the German Biomass Research Center (Deutsches Biomasse Forschungszentrum), our group will contribute its expertise in model predictive control in the field of MPC for demand-oriented feeding of biogas for electricity production. These processes have high time delays and impose high requirements on plant technology, monitoring, and process control.

PhD thesis defense of Lukas Beckenbach

• 2022/12/16:   Our team member Lukas Beckenbach has successfully defended his dissertation with the title Stability and Performance of Model Based Approximate Optimal Control Designs.

Invited Guest: Prof. Matthias Gerdts, Universität der Bundeswehr München

• 2022/12/16:   Prof. Dr. Matthias Gerdts (Universität der Bundeswehr München) will give a talk on Coordination of interacting systems using optimal control techniques at 2:00 pm in 2/N001. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

University award for best research paper (at TU Ilmenau)

• 2022/12/06:   Our group member Philipp Sauerteig receives the university award of Technische Universität Ilmenau for the best research paper 2022 in the category "economic and social sciences" for his contribution as one of the main authors of S. Grundel, S. Heyder, T. Hotz, T. K. S. Ritschel, P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann (2021): How to Coordinate Vaccination and Social Distancing to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS) 20(2), 1135 – 1157, DOI: 10.1137/20M1387687 .

Invited Guest: Prof. Tsu-Wei Chen, HU zu Berlin

• 2022/11/29:   Prof. Dr. Tsu-Wei Chen (Humbold Universität zu Berlin) will give a talk on Multi-scale modelling and phenotyping facilitate understanding of plant-plant interactions and canopy productivity at 2:00 pm in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Visitor: Farrukh Waheed, Czech Technical University (CTU) Praha

• 2022/11/14 - 2022/12/09:  Farrukh Waheed (Czech Technical University Praha) visited our lab during an ERASMUS+ programme, where he gave a talk on Time Varying Model Predictive Control (MPC) of Underactuated Systems.

Invited Guest: Jun.-Prof. Thomas Berger, Universität Paderborn

• 2022/11/14:   Jun.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger (Universität Paderborn) will give a talk on Funnel control and applications at 5:00 pm in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Invited Guest: Dr. Yuning Jiang, EPFL (Lausanne)

• 2022/11/10:   Dr. Yuning Jiang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) will give a talk on Data-driven control and optimization with kernel-based learning at 2:30 pm in 2/N111. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Wichtige Information zur Lehre im Wintersemester 2022/23 /Important information about courses in the winter term 2022/23

• 2022/09/30:   Alle Lehrveranstaltungen unserer Professur sind im Wintersemester 2022/23 in Präsenz geplant. Alle weiteren Informationen erhalten sie über den OPAL Kurs der entsprechenden Lehrveranstaltung. Bitte melden Sie sich dort bis zum Vorlesungsbeginn am 10.10.2022 an.
  All courses of our professorship are planned in attendance in winter term 2022/23. All further information can be obtained from the OPAL course of the corresponding course. Please enrol there by the start of lectures on October 10th, 2022.