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Upcoming Events

10.01.2025 - Matthias Gramlich: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Predictive Control for District Heating Networks

17.02.2025 - Internal Workshop on Embedded Learning and Control

15.09.2025 - Summer School on Robust Model Predictive Control

06.10.2025 - Fall School on Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning

Past Events

25.11.2024 - Sophie Hall: Game Theory for Control Systems Tutorial and Latest Results

12.11.2024 - Rudolf Reiter: Optimization-Based Motion Planning and Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Driving

05.11.2024 - Dirk Reinhardt: On demand-responsive energy communities in Norway: electricity-price building via dual decomposition

04.11.2024 - Ankita Pawar, Shikha Tiwari, Christian Gajek: Autonomous Trucks at MAN and Master Defenses of Ankita Pawar and Shikha Tiwari

23.10.2024 - ELO-X Workshop on Ethical Innovation for Autonomous Systems

22.10.2024 - Dinesh Krishnamoorthy: Complexity Reduction in Model Predictive Control using Learning Techniques

18.10.2024 - Wonsun Song: Modeling and Optimization of Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage

15.10.2024 - Andrea Ghezzi: Tutorial on mixed-integer (nonlinear) optimization: formulations and solution methods

24.09.2024 - Simon Ramoser: Efficient Active-Passive Vehicle Coordination in Multi-Modal Transportation Networks

18.09.2024 - Leonie Daubmann: Analyse des "Reverse Pumping" Prinzips in Simulationen

06.09.2024 - Ifham Abdul Latheef Ahmed: Optimal Control for Bidirectional DCDC Converters

23.07.2024 - Jonas Bürgel: Influence of forecast uncertainties on MPC controllers for stationary batteries

16.07.2024 - Kristoffer Løwenstein: Physics-informed online learning of gray-box model by moving horizon estimation and efficient numerical solutions

15.07.2024 - Renewable Energy Day Freiburg

09.07.2024 - Abdurahim Wadi: Adaptive Method for Anomaly Detection in Plasma Chamber

03.07.2024 - Leo Simpson: System Identification from multiple trajectories

02.07.2024 - Leo Simpson: System Identification from multiple trajectories

27.06.2024 - Mario Willaredt: Laser Lock Control for Photothermal Spectroscopy in an Industrial Environment

20.06.2024 - Thejas Babu Sai Babu: Motion Planning and Control of a Push-Back Vehicle for Aircraft Positioning

18.06.2024 - Rashmi Dabir: Model Predictive Control based Motion Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots using Euclidean Signed Distance Maps

18.06.2024 - Dr. Niels van Duijkeren: Intro to Robotics Research at Bosch

12.06.2024 - Renewable Energy Research Workshop (Freiburg / Republic of Korea)

10.06.2024 - Internal Workshop on Control, Optimization and Renewable Energy Systems

04.06.2024 - Daler Khamidov: MINMPC for a PVT-HP system with Ice Storage

04.04.2024 - Manuel Yves Galliker: Towards General Loco-Manipulation Control for Legged Robots using NMPC and Beyond

25.03.2024 - James B. Rawlings and Moritz Diehl: Course on Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Recent Advances in Design and Computation

23.03.2024 - Jochem De Schutter: TEDxFreiburg: Flying Wind Farms - Soaring to Climate Neutrality Faster

09.02.2024 - ELO-X Advisory Board Meeting

02.02.2024 - Akash John Subash: Model Predictive Control for Trajectory following of Automated Guided Vehicles

02.02.2024 - Karsten Bohlmann: Recent Research Topics at ek robotics GmbH

01.02.2024 - Nathalie Janes: Numerische Simulation für nichtglatte gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen

31.01.2024 - Moritz Berger: Bayesian Sensor Calibration

29.01.2024 - Leo Simpson: How to estimate some parameters of a linear system using noisy measurement data? Theory and Discussion on a real system

25.01.2024 - Jochem De Schutter: Periodic Optimal Control Methods for Nonlinear Energy Conversion Systems

24.01.2024 - Lorenzo Fagiano: Flipped classroom mini-talks on control, optimization and airborne wind energy

24.01.2024 - Wadi Abdurahim: Adaptive Filters for Fault Detection in a Plasma Process

17.01.2024 - Manfred Pross: Prototyping of a PMSM Drive Controller and Test Bench

16.01.2024 - Frederik Zahn: Flatness-based Hybrid System Modeling – A trajectory perspective on hybrid dynamics

18.12.2023 - Osama Ahmad: Behavioral Cloning of an NMPC for Race Car Control

11.12.2023 - Antonia Mühleck: A Dynamic Wake Model based on Vortex Rings for Airborne Wind Energy Systems

04.12.2023 - Renewable Energy Day Freiburg

30.11.2023 - Armin Nurkanović: Numerical Methods for Optimal Control of Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems

30.11.2023 - Bernard Brogliato: Euler implicit time-discretization and analysis of differential-algebraic and descriptor variable linear complementarity systems using passivity

22.11.2023 - Gösta Stomberg: Real-Time Iterations for Distributed Model Predictive Control

22.11.2023 - Robert D. McAllister : Minicourse on Distributionally Robust Optimization

21.11.2023 - Robert D. McAllister: Distributional Uncertainty and Model Predictive Control

16.11.2023 - Miniworkshop on Stochastic System Identification and Transformers, Part 2

14.11.2023 - Miniworkshop on Stochastic System Identification and Transformers, Part 1

07.11.2023 - Anton Pozharskiy: Evaluating Methods for Solving Mathematical Programs With Complementarity Constraints Arising From Nonsmooth Optimal Control

25.10.2023 - Victor Maier: Control of a Bobby Car and Trailer Driving Backwards

23.10.2023 - Mirco Theile: Modeling Problems in Cyber-Physical System for Reinforcement Learning

17.10.2023 - Renzi Wang: Learning State-Dependent Switching System Using Expectation-Maximization Algorithm

04.10.2023 - Fall School on Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning

29.09.2023 - Workshop on Parameter Estimation for Stochastic Systems

25.09.2023 - Paul Krüger: Systemidentification of a Reverse Pumping Rotokite (in German)

22.09.2023 - Vu Thi Huong: The Split Feasibility Problem and Beyond

18.09.2023 - Workshop on Optimization, Systems and Control

12.09.2023 - Summer School on Direct Methods for Optimal Control of Nonsmooth Systems

05.09.2023 - Ramin Abbasi: Iterative Switching Time Optimization for Mixed-Integer Optimal Control Problems

22.08.2023 - David Kiessling: Toward a practical feasible sequential optimization algorithm

20.07.2023 - Zlatan Ajanović: Planning and Learning for Long-horizon Sequential Decision-making Problems: Task and Motion Planning Approach

19.07.2023 - Leonardo Cecchin, Maximilian Manderla, Adrian Trachte: MPC, Learning and Control at Bosch

07.07.2023 - Race Car Control Laboratory Final Presentations

06.07.2023 - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Geisler: Industrial Practice of Wind Turbine Control

04.07.2023 - Oliver Paul: Representations of 3D Rotations

03.07.2023 - Moritz Diehl: Nonlinear Optimization and Direct Optimal Control for Practitioners

27.06.2023 - Felix Ebert: Space Rocket and Propulsion Control

20.06.2023 - Sourish Pramanick: Real-time trajectory tracking for ADAS with Model Predictive Control

20.06.2023 - Dr. Michael Feid and Mr. Daniel Schmitt: MPC at ITK Engineering GmbH

06.06.2023 - Leo Simpson: Direct Collocation for Numerical Optimal Control of Second-Order ODE

25.05.2023 - Wind Turbine Guided Tour

23.05.2023 - Wenliang Zhang: Exploiting over-actuation for improved active safety and energy efficiency of autonomous electric vehicles

16.05.2023 - Lukas Schmidt-Engelbertz: Mixed-integer programming methods for optimal operation of district heating networks

28.04.2023 - Xinliang Dai and Veit Hagenmeyer: Distributed Optimization in the Electric Power System

20.04.2023 - Yizhen Wang: Multiple Shooting, Single Shooting and Differential Dynamic Programming for optimal Control Formulations using Barrier Formulations and Squashing

14.03.2023 - Jasper Hoffmann: An Introduction to Transformers and Large Language Models

13.03.2023 - Arne Groß: Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Smart Grid Applications

07.03.2023 - Per Rutquist: Learning via Generalized Eigenvalue Problems

27.02.2023 - Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani: The Role of Convexity in Data-Driven Decision-Making

27.02.2023 - Internal Workshop on Robust Model Predictive Control (DFG Project)

15.02.2023 - Syscop Group Retreat

07.02.2023 - Wim van Roy: Continuous Optimization for Control of Finite-State Machines via Time-Freezing in NOSNOC

02.02.2023 - Internal Mini-Workshop on Non-Linear Mixed Integer Optimal Control Algorithms

31.01.2023 - Nicolas Kessler: Gain scheduled trajectory stabilization for nonlinear systems

17.01.2023 - Wim van Roy: Optimal Control for Compressed Air Systems

17.01.2023 - Jakob Harzer, Johannes Huber: Safety Instructions Talk

15.12.2022 - Mohammad Qanadilo: An Investigation for Application of Numerical Optimization Techniques on the Energy System Model REMod

18.11.2022 - Oliver Paul: Bayesian Sensor Calibration

17.11.2022 - Dr. Niels van Duijkeren, Dr. Jan Staschulat: Robotics Research at Bosch

17.11.2022 - Eslam Salah Zaki Elshiekh: Real-time safety-monitoring for mobile robot navigation on an industrial automation computing platform

15.11.2022 - Sotaro Katayama: Algorithm developments for whole-body model predictive control of robotic systems

08.11.2022 - Jing Xie: Robust offset-free nonlinear MPC for systems learned by Neural NARX models

18.10.2022 - Ian McInerney: Tuning Numerical Methods for Linear Predictive Control using Toeplitz Operator Theory

12.10.2022 - ELO-X Advisory Board Meeting

10.10.2022 - Workshop on Embedded Optimization and Learning for Robotics and Mechatronics

10.10.2022 - Christian Jäger and Frank Krüger: How to plan and develop a research project

04.10.2022 - ELO-X Fall School and Workshop

27.09.2022 - Shiying Dong: Predictive energy-optimal control of connected and automated vehicles

19.09.2022 - Maher Brahim: Modeling and Cyclic Pitch Control of an Experimental Rotorkite Setup

12.09.2022 - Statusseminar of the FOR2041 project

27.07.2022 - Workshop on Localization and Optimization

19.07.2022 - James B. Rawlings and Moritz M. Diehl: ELO-X Short Course on Model Predictive Control Theory and Computation

14.07.2022 - Jens Nußberger: Optimal Control of a Rotary Crane - Modeling, Numerical Methods and Real-world Experiments

12.07.2022 - Hike to Rosskopf Wind Turbines

12.07.2022 - David Kiessling: Time-optimal control of mechatronic systems: Limits of the fully determined case

05.07.2022 - Armin Nurkanović: Numerical Optimal Control for Differential Equations with State Dependent Switches and Jumps

21.06.2022 - Amon Lahr: Zero-order optimization for Gaussian process-based model predictive control

31.05.2022 - Leo Simpson: System identification of a Temperature Control Unit

06.04.2022 - Rudolf Reiter: Talk: Reinforcement Learning and MPC for Interactive Planning

05.04.2022 - Christian Dietz : Efficient Collision Modelling for Numerical Optimal Control

17.03.2022 - Daniele Ronzani: A brief history of optimization-based ILC. What's next?

17.03.2022 - Shamil Mamedov: Fast vibration-free manipulation of flexible objects with robot arm

08.03.2022 - Dirk Lebiedz: Newton-flow of the Xi-function and Riemann hypothesis

07.03.2022 - Internal Workshop on Systems Control and Optimization

01.03.2022 - JP Dr. Paul Manns: Sequential Integer Linear Programming with Accelerations by Shortest Path Computations for Integer Optimal Control on One-dimensional Domains

10.02.2022 - Optimization-Based Multiscale Control of Low-Temperature Combustion Engines

08.02.2022 - Wenxin Xiong: Efficient Iterative Algorithms for Robust TOA/TDOA/AOA Based Localization

07.02.2022 - Leonardo Cecchin : Model Predictive Control for Electro-Hydraulic construction vehicles drivetrain

31.01.2022 - Daniel Unterweger: Modelling and Identification of a Rotor Kite

18.01.2022 - Léo Simpson: Presentation of a project and first results about learning-based control of thermal networks and linear positive systems.

18.01.2022 - Prof. Dr. Johannes Reuter and Hannes Homburger M. Eng.: MPPI Control Discussion

11.01.2022 - Prof. Dr. Johannes Reuter and Hannes Homburger M. Eng.: Tutorial on Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) Control

21.12.2021 - Armin Nurkanović: Recent Advances in the Time-Freezing Reformulation for Numerical Optimal Control of Dynamic Systems with State Jumps

20.12.2021 - Daniel Unterweger: Cyclic Pitch Control of a Rotary Kite

16.12.2021 - Paul Taschner: Optimal Control of Low-Thrust Orbit Transfers using Direct Collocation

06.12.2021 - Philipp Ebner: Adaptive Curvature Control with a Radial Basis Function Network for Autonomous Driving

02.12.2021 - Jakob Harzer: An Efficient Numerical Method for Highly Oscillatory Optimal Control Problems

30.11.2021 - Katrin Baumgärtner: The Extended Gauss-Newton Method and its Applications

16.11.2021 - Yassine Nemmour (1), Diego A. Agudelo-España (1), Jia-Jie Zhu (2): Learning and approximation algorithms for data-driven multi-stage robust decision-making

09.11.2021 - Léo Simpson: Optimal control coupled with system identification for heat transfer systems

20.10.2021 - Linus Niedermaier: Optimal control for management of electric vehicle charging infrastructures

05.10.2021 - David Kiessling : Globalizing SQP Methods for NMPC

17.09.2021 - Alexander Kickl: Modelling and Optimization of a production line

04.08.2021 - MPC and Reinforcement Learning Summer School

03.08.2021 - Sergey Levine: Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning from Offline Data

02.08.2021 - Sebastien Gros: RL and MPC: safety, stability, and some more recent results

02.08.2021 - Sebastien Gros: Adaptation of MPC via RL: fundamental principles

13.07.2021 - Moritz Diehl: Numerical NMPC for systems with state dependent jumps and discrete actuators

05.07.2021 - Internal Workshop on Control, Estimation, Learning and Optimization

28.06.2021 - Naya Baslan: Modeling and System Identification of Epidemics with Application to COVID-19

24.06.2021 - Fabian Girrbach: Moving Horizon Estimation for Inertial Motion Tracking - Algorithms and Industrial Applications

22.06.2021 - Boris Houska: Set Based Computing Methods in Optimization and Control

21.06.2021 - Internal Workshop on Robust Model Predictive Control (DFG Project)

08.06.2021 - Mikhail Katliar: Time-optimal robot moves with alternatives

18.05.2021 - Jochem De Schutter: AWEbox: a Modeling and Optimal Control Toolbox for Single- and Multi-Drone Airborne Wind Energy Systems

11.05.2021 - Florian Messerer: Some useful facts about ellipsoids and their application to robust optimal control

29.04.2021 - Jonathan Frey, Katrin Baumgärtner: acados workshop FOR2041

08.04.2021 - Ephraim Eckl: Optimization-based Iterative Learning Control Applied to a Quadrotor System

31.03.2021 - David Pellhammer: Parameter Estimation for the Control of Plasma Chamber Impedance Matching

08.03.2021 - Andrea Zanelli: Inexact methods for nonlinear model predictive control

24.02.2021 - Jonas Hall: Numerical Methods and Software for Quadratic Programming Problems with Linear Complementarity Constraints

18.02.2021 - Matthias Gramlich: Elektrische Optimierung von Höhenwindenergieanlagen

15.02.2021 - Mikhail Katliar: Optimal control of motion simulators

12.01.2021 - Rachel Leuthold: Optimal Control with Lifting-line Wake Modeling

07.10.2020 - Armin Nurkanovic: The Time-Freezing Method for Numerical Optimal Control of Dynamics with State Jumps

22.09.2020 - Ehsan Hashemi: State Estimation for Connected and Automated Driving Systems

04.08.2020 - Internal Workshop on Control, Estimation, Learning and Optimization

10.07.2020 - Walk to Rosskopf Wind Turbine

06.07.2020 - Michael Floßmann: Model predictive control with real-time iteration for quadcopter motors on an embedded platform

24.06.2020 - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Geisler: Industrial Practice of Wind Energy Converter Control

23.06.2020 - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Geisler: Industrial Practice of Wind Energy Converter Control

14.05.2020 - Florian Messerer: ECC20: Determining the Exact Local Convergence Rate of Sequential Convex Programming

24.04.2020 - Muhammad Harris Khan: An Embedded Framework for Measurement Data Acquisition towards NMPC in kHz Range

24.03.2020 - Justin Pearse-Danker: Inexact Newton with Iterated Sensitivities for optimization of elliptic PDE

11.02.2020 - Armin Nurkanovic: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Microgrid Operation

20.01.2020 - Paul Daum: Modeling, Identification, Estimation and Control of a Rotational Start-up System for Airborne Wind Energy

19.12.2019 - Conrad Marquardt: Inexact Newton-Type Optimization with Iterated Sensitivities for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Cyclic Processes

03.12.2019 - Tomoyuki Iori: Recursive Elimination Method for Moving Horizon Estimation of Discrete-Time Polynomial Systems

03.12.2019 - Haoyang Deng: Parallel Computing for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

03.12.2019 - Toshiyuki Ohtsuka: A Moving Switching Sequence Approach for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Switched Systems

19.11.2019 - Martin Lange: Functional Safety

07.11.2019 - Alexandra Wörnhör: Deep metric learning for sorting of image sequences– a solar cell use case

05.11.2019 - Mustafa Alp: Modelling, Identification, and Optimal Lap Simulation of a Radio Controlled Race Car

22.10.2019 - Long Cheng: Uncertain parameters analysis of powered-descent guidance based on Chebyshev interval method

07.10.2019 - Internal Workshop on Systems, Control and Optimization

01.10.2019 - Mopidevi Om Sai Swaroop: Modelling and Deisgn of Rotor Kite Experimental Setup for Airborne Wind Energy

24.09.2019 - Katrin Baumgärtner: Asymptotic comparison of Bayesian state estimates and numerical methods for moving horizon estimation

24.09.2019 - Marcelo Chulek: Precise Key Triggering for Piano Sample Recordings

20.09.2019 - Global Climate Strike

13.09.2019 - Panagiotis Kourouklidis: Preliminary experiments using PLASMA for BLASFEO parallelization.

12.09.2019 - Raphaëlle Peyraud : Modelling and Identification of the Human Balancing System

12.08.2019 - Boris Houska: Moment Based Learning

01.08.2019 - Lukas Klein: Master Thesis Presentation: Rotation Compensation for Rotary Kite Systems

30.07.2019 - Gianluca Frison, Andrea Zanelli: Recent advances in the interfaces of acados

30.07.2019 - Jonathan Frey: Recent developements on GNSF-IRK

30.07.2019 - eco4wind project meeting

22.07.2019 - Ian McInerney: A System-theoretic Approach for Analyzing the Fast Gradient Method in Fixed-point Number Representation

19.07.2019 - Jia-Jie Zhu: Learning for Control in Hybrid Systems

09.07.2019 - Benjamin Michaud: Optimal control of violin shoulder kinematics that minimize the muscle fatigue

21.06.2019 - Nicolas Mansard: Predictive Control for Complex Robots

18.06.2019 - Daniel Klöser: Hierarchical Model Predictive Control for the Power Management of a Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle

28.05.2019 - Jonas Koenemann: Introduction to .ocml (Optimal Control Modeling Language)

22.05.2019 - Immanuel Edi Wibowo: Tumor Control Probability modeling and Data Fitting

22.05.2019 - Felix Plum: Robust Model-Predictive Control for High-Performance Electric Drives

21.05.2019 - Barbara Barros Carlos: Guided NMPC for inducing learned control policy behaviors

10.05.2019 - Marc Steinbach: Recursive KKT solution for discretized ODE control problems

22.03.2019 - Deepranjan Dongol: PhD defense of Deepranjan Dongol

14.03.2019 - Christian Tolksdorf: Mastervortrag

25.02.2019 - Internal Workshop on Control, Estimation, Modeling and Optimization - Winter 2019

11.02.2019 - James Martens: Extensions and improvements to the K-FAC method for neural network optimization

07.02.2019 - Marco Lauricella: A Set Membership approach to the identification of linear systems with guaranteed simulation accuracy

06.02.2019 - Matilde Gargiani: Optimizing Neural Networks with Kronecker-factored Approximate Curvature

05.02.2019 - Melanie Zeilinger: MPC for Learning-based Control with Constraints

30.01.2019 - Lukas Klar: Contactless Current Sensing with Position Detection Using Model-Based Nonlinear Optimization

29.01.2019 - Peter Hofmeier : Control an Airborne Wind Energy System with a Non-Linear Model Predictive Controller using a learning Neural Network Model

28.01.2019 - Dimitris Kouzoupis: Structure-exploiting numerical methods for tree-sparse optimal control problems

15.01.2019 - Statusseminar of DFG project on Optimization-based Multi-scale Control of Low-Temperature Combustion Engines

09.01.2019 - Per Rutquist: Julia mini-course

07.01.2019 - Alexander Kozhinov: Compensation of undersampled periodic disturbance signals

14.12.2018 - Robin Verschueren: PhD defense of Robin Verschueren

12.12.2018 - Eric Kerrigan: What is the best way for drones to talk while flying?

11.12.2018 - Eric Kerrigan: Dynamic Optimization with Convergence Guarantees

26.11.2018 - Johannes P. Schlöder: Estimation of Parameters in Models of Dynamic Processes

21.11.2018 - Jonathan Frey: Structure Exploiting Integrators for Model Predictive Control

14.11.2018 - Gianluca Frison: High-level meets low-level, Part. 2

08.11.2018 - Li-Yuan Hsu : Transfer Learning for Mapless Quadrotor Navigation Using Recurrent Neural Network

06.11.2018 - Felix Plum: Robust MPC

29.10.2018 - Mikhail Katliar: High-level meets low-level, Part. 1

08.10.2018 - Syscop Retreat, Autumn 2018

04.10.2018 - Armin Nurkanovic: Hessian Approximations in Multi-Level Iterations

17.08.2018 - Dr. G. Sánchez-Arriaga: Floquet Theory and Periodic Orbits Applied to Airborne Wind Energy Systems

15.08.2018 - Jonathan Frey: Structure Exploiting Integration Schemes for acados

15.08.2018 - Dr. G. Sánchez-Arriaga: Simulation and Experimental Research Activities on Airborne Wind Energy Systems at UC3M

19.07.2018 - Harjoat S. Bhamra: Stochastic Optimal Control: Problems from Financial Economics

18.07.2018 - Giovanni Licitra: Identification and Optimization of an Airborne Wind Energy System

18.07.2018 - Lorenzo Fagiano: Learning-based predictive control for linear systems: a unitary approach

13.06.2018 - Dr. Axel Schild: Control-oriented modeling and controller design for wind turbines

11.06.2018 - Prof. Michael Schmidt: Research at the Institute of Energy Systems Technology (INES) with a Special Focus on Control Applications

07.06.2018 - Christoph Sieg: Some useful math - Part 6

16.05.2018 - Tobias Schöls: Optimization Based Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

15.05.2018 - Thomas Gijs, Stijn De Bondt: Tethered Tension Sensors

11.05.2018 - Thilo Bronnenmeyer: Optimal Control of Multi-Kite Emergency Trajectories

08.05.2018 - Adrian Bürger: Solving Combinatorial Integral Approximation problems with pycombina

25.04.2018 - Christoph Sieg: Some useful math - Part 5

24.04.2018 - Michael Zehnle: Optimierung des Temperaturverhaltens hochsensitiver induktiver Näherungssensoren

23.04.2018 - Christian Budak: Automatische Zuordnung von Eigenmoden mikromechanischer Drehratensensoren aus Simulation und Messung

18.04.2018 - Fluid Mechanics Film Series

17.04.2018 - Eva Ahbe: Stability Certificates for Periodic Trajectories of Controlled Power Kite Systems

27.03.2018 - Christoph Sieg: Some useful math

20.03.2018 - Christoph Sieg: Some useful math

13.03.2018 - Christoph Sieg: Some useful math

08.03.2018 - Anders Hansson: Exploiting Chordality in Optimization Algorithms for Model Predictive Control

06.03.2018 - Sabrina Graber: Master thesis defence - time-optimal control for a permanent magnet synchronous machine

27.02.2018 - Syscop and Kiteswarms Members: Internal Workshop on Systems Control and Optimization and Kiteswarms

20.02.2018 - Tobias Geyer: Model predictive control of power converters: Control algorithms and numerical optimization methods

20.02.2018 - Tobias Geyer: Model predictive control of power converters: An introduction

12.02.2018 - Dr. Stephan Schnez: Modeling and Optimization of Multi-Energy Systems

08.02.2018 - Pontus Giselsson: Fixed-Point Interpretations in Large-Scale Convex Optimization

06.02.2018 - Jennifer Hofmann: Comparison of direct collocation methods for optimal control

23.01.2018 - Matthias Müller: Economic model predictive control: optimality, robustness and distributed implementation

22.01.2018 - Tobias Schöls: Optimization based robot motion planning in dynamic environments

15.12.2017 - Bernhard Miller: Power production based on high-altitude wind turbines

12.12.2017 - Vasu Sharma: Low-Cost Flow Characterization Methods

12.12.2017 - Joris Gillis: Optispline: a toolbox for robust (dynamic) optimization using spline relaxations

27.11.2017 - Aachen-Freiburg Workshop on modeling and optimal control of a Gasoline Controlled Auto Ignition (GCAI) Engine

27.11.2017 - Benjamin Stickan: Joint project DyConPV - (N)MPC in Power-Electronics

24.11.2017 - Sebastian Albrecht: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Heat Storage Tank

21.11.2017 - Giovanni Licitra: System Identification, Pattern Analysis and Control Algorithm Design of a Rigid Wing Airborne Wind Energy System via an Optimal Control Approach

24.10.2017 - Sabrina Graber: Time Optimal Control of Electric Drives with Constraints

24.10.2017 - Quentin Docquier: Optimal Control of Multibody Systems

17.10.2017 - Branimir Novoselnik, Yutao Chen, Yuning Jiang, Tommaso Sartor: Summer of NOC presentations

10.10.2017 - Dr. Steven Kehrberg: Experimental Modal Analysis of Automotive MEMS Sensors

05.10.2017 - Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2017

18.09.2017 - Syscop Retreat 2017

15.09.2017 - Gianluca Frison: The BLASFEO and HPIPM frameworks

15.09.2017 - Hoang Xuan Phu: The Method of Orienting Curves for Finding Optimal Paths in Restricted Areas

01.09.2017 - Markus Püschel: Program Generation for Small Linear Algebra

25.08.2017 - Numerical optimal control: project presentations

23.08.2017 - Ayman El-Badawy: Short Introduction to the German University in Cairo

03.08.2017 - Robin Verschueren: Rapid optimal control prototyping with CasADi and acados

25.07.2017 - Petr Listov: Nonlinear Model Predictive Path Following Control of a Fixed-Wing Single-Line Kite: An Experimental Study

05.07.2017 - Michael Neunert: Efficient Numerical Optimal Control for Motion Planning and Control of Mobile Robots

05.07.2017 - Markus Giftthaler: From In situ Fabrication to Optimal Robot Control — Advancing Building Construction with Mobile Robots

04.07.2017 - Mario Zanon: Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections

28.06.2017 - Jorge Perez: Embedded Non-linear Position Control of an Electromagnetic Actuator

13.06.2017 - Niels van Duijkeren: NMPC with Economic Objectives on Target Manifolds

30.05.2017 - Dr. Christoph Sieg: AWEsome

19.05.2017 - Aachen-Freiburg Workshop on modeling and optimal control of a Gasoline Controlled Auto Ignition (GCAI) Engine

19.05.2017 - Patrick Caspari: Stability Analysis of a Vertical Axis Periodic Kite System

16.05.2017 - Dr. Kai O. Arras: Robotics Research at Bosch

15.05.2017 - Final Presentations of the Embedded Control Project

09.05.2017 - Thorsten Schmidt: Incomplete Information in Finance

27.03.2017 - Joris Gillis: Efficient Programming with CasADi 3.1

16.03.2017 - Robin Verschueren: Eco4Wind ACADO course

02.03.2017 - Alexander Domahidi: Embedded optimization from an industrial perspective

31.01.2017 - Jonas Schlagenhauf: Master Thesis Presentation: Model Predictive Control of a Constrained Model Airplane

31.01.2017 - Dinesh Babu Seenivasa: Optimization of Descending and Landing Trajectories of Commercial Aircraft through Optimal Control Techniques (OPTA)

20.01.2017 - Aachen-Freiburg Workshop on numerical modelling of a Gasoline Controlled Auto Ignition (GCAI) Engine for optimal control

17.01.2017 - Peter Ochs: iPiano: Inertial Proximal Algorithm for Non-Convex Optimization

16.01.2017 - Thomas Haas: A large-eddy simulation framework for wind energy applications

20.12.2016 - Jonas Holley: Master Thesis Presentation

20.12.2016 - Stefan Gering: Industrial Applications for Embedded Optimization

07.12.2016 - Prof. Jonas Buchli, Dr. Diego Pardo and Michael Neunert: Numerical Optimal Control in Agile Robotics

05.12.2016 - Aachen-Freiburg Workshop on Real-time Optimal Control of Cyclic Processes

25.11.2016 - Hans Georg Bock: Inverse Optimal Control Problems and Application to Modeling the Gait of Cerebral Palsy Patients

25.11.2016 - Mini Symposium on Numerical Optimization

25.11.2016 - Stefan Vandewalle: Robust Optimization with a Multilevel Monte Carlo Method

18.10.2016 - Bulat Khusainov: Exploring trade-offs in predictive control on reconfigurable computing platforms

19.09.2016 - Jochem De Schutter: Modeling and periodic optimal control of an Airborne Wind Turbine

05.09.2016 - Syscop Group Retreat

02.09.2016 - Yuning Jiang, Boris Houska (presented by Yuning) : Distributed optimization and control with ALADIN

02.09.2016 - Boris Houska, Xuhui Feng (presented by Boris) : Self-reflective model predictive control

25.08.2016 - Lorenzo Fagiano: Theory and applications of controls, airborne wind energy, and the toolbox engineer

04.08.2016 - Minh Dang Doan: Distributed model predictive control approaches and distributed embedded optimization

02.08.2016 - Katja Mombaur: Towards fast, efficient and stable motions

25.07.2016 - Summer School on Numerical Optimization Software

19.07.2016 - Joris Gillis: For-loop equivalents and massive parallelization in CasADi

19.07.2016 - Marcus Heitel: Towards slow manifold based model reduction in optimal control of multiple time scale ODE

05.07.2016 - Silvia Manara: Trajectory optimization of multibody systems with contacts

22.06.2016 - Silvano Balemi : X-ray systems and on-line optimization

21.06.2016 - Quoc Tran-Dinh: Proximal path-following method: a new framework for nonsmooth constrained convex optimization

16.06.2016 - Hans Mittelmann: Introduction to NEOS Server

14.06.2016 - Niels van Duijkeren: An adaptive inexact-Jacobian SQP method for predictive path-following

13.06.2016 - Hans Mittelmann: Computing Strong Bounds in Combinatorial Optimization

01.06.2016 - Roderick Read: Open Hardware, Kite Networks and Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES)

31.05.2016 - Eric Nguyen Van: Autonomous Take Off and Flight of a Tethered Glider for Airborne Wind Energy

13.05.2016 - Fabian Girrbach: Attitude Estimation using IMUs

11.05.2016 - Timm Faulwasser: Path Following – On Tailored Normal Forms and NMPC Design

10.05.2016 - Mikhail Pak: Finding the nearest path point: A small comparison of optimisation methods

10.05.2016 - Philipp Niermeyer: Geometric Path Following Control for Multirotor Vehicles Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and 3D Spline Paths

10.05.2016 - Mikhail Katliar: [Yet another] software architecture for model-predictive control

03.03.2016 - Jeroen Hol: Sensor Fusion Solutions for Inertial-Based Motion Tracking

29.02.2016 - AWESCO Kick-Off Week

15.02.2016 - Winter School on Numerical Optimal Control with Differential Algebraic Equations

11.02.2016 - Fabian Müller und Peter Hofmeier : Regelung in MatLab Simulink mit der Arduino IO Bibliothek

08.02.2016 - Goele Pipeleers: Robust optimization and its power in the absence of uncertainty

08.02.2016 - Emil Klintberg: Some new results on structure exploitation for optimal control

04.02.2016 - Prof. Russell Luke: Error bounds and quantifiable convergence of proximal methods for nonsmooth/(non)convex optimization

03.02.2016 - Per Rutquist: Symbolic Processing for Optimization in Matlab

02.02.2016 - Prof. Dr. Dirk Lebiedz: Computing Slow Invariant Attracting Manifolds for Model Reduction of Dissipative Dynamical Systems

25.01.2016 - Friedrich Hagedorn: Nonlinear Modeling for Broadband Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

20.01.2016 - Moritz Diehl: Sequential Convex Programming

13.01.2016 - Internal HIGHIWND Workshop on Systems, Control and Optimization

11.01.2016 - Dr. Ralf Hannemann-Tamás: Numerical Sensitivity Analysis for Parametric Ordinary Differential Equations

15.12.2015 - Moritz Diehl: Robust Optimization for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

11.12.2015 - Tomasz Minko: Cost efficient optimization based supervisory Controller for supermarket subsystems with heat recovery

08.12.2015 - Stephan Schnez: Take-Off & Landing - A Challenge for Lift-Based, Rigid Wing AWE Systems

25.11.2015 - Gabriele Pannocchia: Multivariable system identification for Model Predictive Control: fundamentals and practice

24.11.2015 - Gabriele Pannocchia: A tutorial overview on theory and design of offset-free MPC algorithms

10.11.2015 - Lorenz Assländer: Sensory integration in human balance control

03.11.2015 - Marco Laumanns: Distribution shaping and scenario bundling for stochastic programs with endogenous uncertainty

30.10.2015 - Mikhail Katliar: First try of MPC on MPI CyberMotion simulator

28.10.2015 - Yuanling Zheng: Evaluation and Improvement of Control strategies for PV-battery-systems

27.10.2015 - T. Albin and L. Pyta: Control of Low Temperature Combustion Engines

26.10.2015 - Nico Wöhrle: Simulation und Verlustanalyse von Lokal Rückseitenkontaktierten Silicium-Solarzellen

21.10.2015 - Richard Ruiterkamp: Airborne Wind Energy - Opportunity or Pie in the Sky?

24.07.2015 - Niels van Duijkeren: Real-Time NMPC for Mechatronic Systems

21.07.2015 - Benjamin Stickan: Introduction to grid connected power electronics and model based control techniques

13.07.2015 - Rene Schneider: Iterative, partition-based moving horizon state estimation

07.07.2015 - Massimo De Mauri: Socially-Aware Motion Planning with RRTs

06.07.2015 - Jochem De Schutter: Sensitivity analysis of optimal divertor configurations in nuclear fusion reactors

01.07.2015 - Sébastien Gros: Some Recent Progress on Optimal Control for Energy Applications

30.06.2015 - Sébastien Gros: Airborne Wind Energy, Modeling & Optimization

25.06.2015 - Hans Mittelmann: Solving Hard Quadratic 3-Dimensional Assignment Problems from Wireless Communications

12.06.2015 - Damon Vander Lind: Developing a 600 kW Airborne Wind Turbine

12.06.2015 - Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting of the ERC Project HIGHWIND

11.06.2015 - Andrea Ianelli: Nonlinear aeroelastic analysis of Joined-Wing configuration

27.05.2015 - Internal Workshop on “Systems Control and Optimization”

26.05.2015 - Quoc Tran Dinh: Parameter Tuning-Free Primal-Dual Algorithms for Large-Scale Constrained Convex Optimization

19.05.2015 - Andrea Zanelli: Efficient Discretization Schemes for Embedded Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

13.05.2015 - Panos Patrinos: FORBES: Forward-Backward Envelope Solver for convex nonsmooth optimization

12.05.2015 - Panos Patrinos joint work with Lorenzo Stella: Forward-Backward L-BFGS for large-scale nonsmooth optimization

11.05.2015 - Compact ACADO Course – Automatic Control And Dynamic Optimization

05.05.2015 - Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven: Towards modelling behaviour from long-term ubiquitous deployments

30.04.2015 - Thiva Albin: NMPC of Two-Stage Turbochargers for Gasoline Engines with ACADO

30.04.2015 - Pierre-Antoine Absil: Optimization on manifolds: methods and applications

29.04.2015 - Nilay Saraf: Predictive control for capacity controlled heat pumps

28.04.2015 - Dietmar Kröner: Mathematics: Key Technology for the Future

27.04.2015 - Rachel Leuthold: Multiple-Wake Vortex Lattice Method for Airborne Wind Energy Membrane-Wing Kites

21.04.2015 - Tobias Lindstrøm Jensen: Fast Algorithms for High-Order Sparse Linear Prediction with Applications to Speech Processing

21.04.2015 - Julian Reimer: Remote Controlling of the HIGHWIND Carousel with a Joystick

25.03.2015 - TEMPO Spring School

23.03.2015 - Workshop on Optimal Control of Thermal Systems in Buildings using Modelica

11.03.2015 - Cristian Gebhard : Multi-body systems and time-domain integration

10.03.2015 - Cristian Gebhardt: Fluid-structure interaction of mechanical systems: an application to wind energy

03.03.2015 - Joerg Fischer: Networked Control Systems and Sequence-Based Control

27.02.2015 - Adrian Bürger: Short introduction to PECas

18.02.2015 - Chris Eberl and Melanie Senn: Optimization Problems in Material Processing

17.02.2015 - Andrew Wagner: A Brief History of HIGHWIND Carousel Development and an Idea for Future Carousels

17.02.2015 - Mikhail Katliar: Model-predictive control of motion simulators

02.02.2015 - Thiva Albin and Dennis Ritter: This event has passed. Model Predictive Control of Two-Stage Turbochargers for Gasoline Engines

28.01.2015 - Jeroen Stuyts: Electrical Energy Conversion System for Pumping Airborne Wind Energy

27.01.2015 - Carsten Mehring: Human Motor Control: Structures, Skills and Movement Decisions

21.01.2015 - Course on Flight Mechanics Modelling for Optimization

20.01.2015 - Dr. Michael Erhard: SkySails Tethered Kites for Ship Propulsion and Power Generation

01.12.2014 - HIGHWIND Day

27.11.2014 - ACADO Course – Automatic Control And Dynamic Optimization

13.11.2014 - Jonas Koenemann: Master Thesis Presentation

31.10.2014 - Mohammed Mehrez: Relative localization and tracking control in multirobot systems using MHE and NMPC

28.10.2014 - Dipl.-Ing. Florian Reiners: Introduction to the field of activities of the department for power electronic systems, Fraunhofer ISE

23.10.2014 - Janick Frasch: Quo vadis qpDUNES?

15.10.2014 - Adrian Bürger: Model predictive control for solar thermal cooling systems

15.10.2014 - Mikhail Katliar: Optimal Control for Motion Simulation

16.09.2014 - Lilli Bergner: The Galerkin-Polynominal Chaos Method for Optimal Control under Unvertainty

08.09.2014 - Markus Auer & Oliver Slaby: Improvement of Kinetic Models for Steam Cracking Furnaces

04.09.2014 - Steven Diamond: Convex Optimization in Python with CVXPY

03.09.2014 - TEMPO 2 Day Course on Robust Optimal Control

20.08.2014 - FRIAS Workshop on Robust Optimization and Control

04.08.2014 - Summer School on Numerical Optimal Control

29.07.2014 - Control and Optimization Laboratory Group Workshop

28.07.2014 - Robin Verschueren: Nonlinear Control and State Estimation of Model Race Cars

16.07.2014 - Dr. Daniel Zelazo: Distributed Negotiation Methods for Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems

10.07.2014 - Satya Gopisetty: Library Concept and Generic Parametrization for Energy Planning of Polygeneration Systems

10.07.2014 - Dominik Wystrcil: Optimization of Hydronic Space Heating and Cooling Systems Utilizing Environmental Heat Sources and Sinks

10.07.2014 - Martin Schmelas: Prädiktive Algorithmen für thermoaktive Bauteilsysteme zur Entlastung des Stromnetzes

30.06.2014 - Dr. Vyacheslav Kungurtsev: SQP Methods for Parametric Nonlinear Programming

10.06.2014 - Philippe Monmousseau: Automatic Testing for an NLP Solver by Generating Feasible or Infeasible Problems (LPs, QPs, OCPs)

03.06.2014 - Dirk Lebiedz and Pascal Heiter: Model Reduction in Chemical Kinetics

03.06.2014 - Muhammad Imran: Master Thesis Presentation Probabilistic Power Flow

20.03.2014 - Cooperative Distributed MPC with Event-Based Communication

19.03.2014 - IMTEK-TEMPO Workshop on Embedded Quadratic Programming (EQP2014)