Internal Workshop on Systems, Control and Optimization

(informally known as Group Retreat)

Monday, February 17, 2025, 8:00 - Friday, February 21, 2025, 16:00

Max-Kade-Auditorium 1, Bertoldstraße 17, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau

 

 

Schedule

TimeslotMonday, 17.02 Tuesday, 18.02 Wednesday, 19.02 Thursday, 20.02 Friday, 21.02 
08:30 - 09:00ArrivalArrivalArrivalArrivalArrival
09:00 - 09:30Ricarda Hogl - UFR
Hybrid batteries and electricity markets
Jochem De Schutter - UFR
Economic optimization of AWE systems based on fully resolved flight trajectories
Lilli Frison - UFR
Evaluation of MPC with AI-based system model for optimizing heat pump efficiency: first practical insights from a field test
Sebastien Gros - NTNU
Markov Decision Process, MPC and Reinforcement Learning: why is it useful to connect the dots?
Moritz Diehl - UFR
Stochastic Optimal Control and Dynamic Programming in Belief Space
09:30 - 09:45DiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
09:45 - 10:15Hannes Homburger - HTWG Konstanz
On the Suboptimality of MPPI Control
Andrea Ghezzi - UFR
A tracking NMPC controller for minidrones based on partial tightening and policy rollouts

 
Younes Zahraoui - NTNU
Norway’s Electricity Market and the Green Transition: Opportunities and Challenges
Akhil s Anand - NTNU
Reinforcement Learning of Decision Processes
Irene Schimperna - TU Ilmenau / University of Pavia
Recurrent Neural Network based Model Predictive Control with guarantees
10:15 - 10:30DiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
10:30 - 11:00BreakBreakBreakBreakBreak
11:00 - 11:30Yunfan Gao - UFR
Semi-Infinite Programming For Collision-Free Motion Planning
Per Rutquist - UFR
Layer-Wise Slow Feature Analysis
Harald Taxt Walnum - NTNU
Application of MPC for energy flexible operation of buildings
Rachel Leuthold - UFR
a lifting-line vortex model in a 2-kite awe ocp
Rudolf Reiter - UFR
Mixed-Integer Formulation for Highway Motion Planning
11:30 - 11:45DiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
11:45 - 12:15Christian Dietz - UFR
Smoothed distance functions and integrators for direct optimal control of contact-rich systems
David Kiessling - UFR
A Globalization for acados
Leo Simpson - UFR
Parametric System Identification for LTI
Jonathan Frey - UFR
Solution Sensitivities in acados
Open space for coworking and decentral discussions
12:15 - 12:30DiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
12:30 - 14:00Lunch BreakLunch Break
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
 
14:00 - 14:30Moritz Bitterling - UFR
High Temperature Packed-Bed Heat Storage for Flexible Supply of Industrial Process Heat - Challenges, numerical simulations and measurement concepts
Armin Nurkanovic - UFR
Inexact MPC for nonsmooth dynamical systems
Dirk Reinhardt - NTNU
The Autumn of Learning: How far we got and what's next
14:30 - 14:45DiscussionDiscussion
Social Activity
Discussion
14:45 - 15:15Ruven Weiss - HTWG Konstanz
Key Aspects in Modeling and Control for the Edge-Banding Process - A Recap
Anton Pozharskiy - UFR
Solving Linear Programs with Complementarity Constraints
Karl Worthmann - TU Ilmenau
Approximation of dynamical systems using the Koopman operator
15:15 - 15:30DiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
15:30 - 16:00BreakBreakBreak
16:00 - 16:30Jakob Harzer - UFR
Integration Error Regularization in Direct Optimal Control using Embedded Runge Kutta Methods
Florian Messerer - UFR
Efficient formulations and algorithms for uncertainty-aware MPC
Lea Bold - TU Ilmenau
Koopman predictive control with stability guarantees
16:30 - 16:45DiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
16:45 - 17:30 Moritz Diehl, Florian Messerer- UFR
Outline of Ongoing ATPF “Bubble” Project and Brainstorming on Future Work
 
17:30 - 17:45 Discussion 
    
EveningPub Evening  Dinner

 

Events

  • Pub Evening on Monday
  • Hike on Wednesday
    • Meeting point: 2:30 pm at Holbeinpferd (gmaps link)
      • Tram stop Holbeinstraße (Line 2, direction Günterstal)
    • We hike (~2 to 2:30 h) to a café in Langacker (Horben).
    • Return by public transport.
  • Dinner on Thursday

Location

  • Max-Kade-Auditorium 1, Bertoldstraße 17, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau 
  • Enter via Brunnenstraße

 

If you have any questions, send an email to Jakob or Florian.

Participants

Ruven Weiss, HTWG Konstanz
Hannes Homburger, HTWG Konstanz
Johannes Reuter, HTWG Konstanz
Sebastien Gros, NTNU Trondheim
Akhil s Anand, NTNU Trondheim
Harald Taxt Walnum, NTNU Trondheim
Younes Zahraoui, NTNU Trondheim
Dirk Reinhardt, NTNU Trondheim
Karl Worthmann, TU Ilmenau
Lea Bold, TU Ilmenau
Irene Schimperna, TU Ilmenau / University of Pavia
Rudolf Reiter, UFR
Leo Simpson, UFR
Georg Hoppe, UFR
Florian Messerer, UFR
Anton Pozharskiy, UFR
David Kiessling, UFR / KU Leuven
Leonard Fichtner, UFR
Yunfan Gao, UFR
Christian Dietz, UFR
Jonathan Frey, UFR
Arne Gross, UFR
Per Rutquist, UFR
Jakob Harzer, UFR
Andrea Ghezzi, UFR
Rachel Leuthold, UFR
Jochem De Schutter, UFR
Armin Nurkanovic, UFR
Moritz Diehl, UFR
Moritz Bitterling, UFR / Fraunhofer ISE
Ricarda Hogl, UFR / Fraunhofer ISE