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, Bertoldstraße 17, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau

Preliminary Timetable:
 

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
Jakob Harzer - UFR
Integration Error Regularization in Direct Optimal Control using Embedded Runge Kutta Methods
Sebastien Gros - NTNU
Markov Decision Process, MPC and Reinforcement Learning: why is it useful to connect the dots?
Leo Simpson - UFR
Parametric System Identification for LTI
09:30 - 09:45DiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
09:45 - 10:15Hannes Homburger - HTWG Konstanz
On the Suboptimality of MPPI Control
Andrea Ghezzi - UFR
Formulations and preprocessing for MINLP with indicator constraints | Fast MPC with minidrones
Arne Gross - UFR
Comparison of distributed MPC algorithms for energy communities
Akhil s Anand - NTNU
Reinforcement Learning of Decision Processes
Rudolf Reiter - UFR
Mixed-Integer Formulation for Highway Motion Planning
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
Moritz Diehl - UFR
Stochastic Optimal Control and Dynamic Programming in Belief Space
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
Jasper Hoffmann - UFR
An MPC prior for Diffusion
Jonathan Frey - UFR
Solution Sensitivities in acados
Florian Messerer - UFR
Efficient formulations and algorithms for uncertainty-aware MPC
12:15 - 12:30DiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
12:30 - 14:00Lunch BreakLunch BreakLunch BreakLunch BreakLunch 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
Social Activity
Dirk Reinhardt - NTNU
The Autumn of Learning: How far we got and what's next
 
14:30 - 14:45DiscussionDiscussionDiscussion 
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
Irene Schimperna - TU Ilmenau / University of Pavia
Recurrent Neural Network based Model Predictive Control with guarantees
 
15:15 - 15:30DiscussionDiscussionDiscussion 
15:30 - 16:00  Break 
16:00 - 16:30  Lea Bold - TU Ilmenau
Stability guarantees for kernel EDMD-based predictive control
 
16:30 - 16:45  Discussion 
16:45 - 19:00     
19:00 - 22:00Pub Evening  Dinner 

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