Florian Messerer

PhD Student

    

Short Bio

Florian Messerer received a B.Sc. in Microsystems Engineering from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2016 and a M.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2018. He then came back to Freiburg to join the Laboratory for Systems, Control and Optimization as research and teaching assistant. Since March 2020, he is pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Moritz Diehl, since January 2022 as an associated fellow of the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie project ELO-X.

Research Interests

  • Uncertainty-aware model predictive control
    • Robust, stochastic and dual
    • Efficient formulations and algorithms
  • Sequential convex programming and generalized Gauss-Newton methods

 

Recent Preprints

Synthesis of Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning: Survey and Classification.
Rudolf Reiter, Jasper Hoffmann, Dirk Reinhardt, Florian Messerer, Katrin Baumgärtner, Shamburaj Sawant, Joschka Boedecker, Moritz Diehl, Sebastien Gros.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02133, 2025.


Real-Time-Feasible Collision-Free Motion Planning For Ellipsoidal Objects.
Yunfan Gao, Florian Messerer, Niels van Duijkeren, Boris Houska, Moritz Diehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12007, 2024.

Also see my google scholar page and my arXiv list.

 

Teaching

Assisting in the organization of the following courses:

 

Publications