Internal Workshop on Systems, Control and Optimization
(Informally known as GroupRetreat)
Monday, February 09, 2026, 9:00
- Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 18:00
Max-Kade-Auditorium 1, Bertoldstraße 17, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau
All professors, PhD students and Postdocs are invited to give a talk but affiliated master thesis students and former team members are nevertheless very much welcome to join the retreat.
The dinner will take place at 18:00 on Tuesday after the hike at Restaurant Süden.
Timetable:
| | Monday, 9.02 | Tuesday, 10.02 | Wednesday, 11.02 |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Arrival | Arrival | Arrival |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Moritz Diehl
Interesting Facts about KKT-Matrices | Anton Pozharskiy
A High Performance Solver for Large-Scale Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints | Leonard Fichtner
Some Ideas about Learning with MPC |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Daniel Geweth
Model Predictive Control for Electrical Motors | Armin Nurkanovic
Local convergence results for smooth and nonsmooth SQP methods | Jingjie Ni
Reward Design for RL-Based Optimal Control under State and Terminal Constraints in Continuous-State Systems |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break | Break | Break |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Jörg Fischer
Unified NMPC for swing-up and stabilization of a Furuta pendulum on an embedded Cortex-M7 platform | Pietro Gori
Switched-Systems Optimal Control: A Joint Optimization Approach | Hannes Homburger
Gauss-Newton accelerated MPPI |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Yunfan Gao
Robust Collision Avoidance | Andrea Ghezzi
Exploiting outer approximation cuts for fast mixed-integer NMPC | Jonathan Frey
Multi-phase or differentiable acados
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| 11:50 - 12:10 | Discussion | Discussion | Jingtao Xiong
Regularization Techniques for a Riccati-based Interior-Point QP Solver |
| 12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Katrin Baumgärtner
Optimal control in belief space | Adithya Anoop Thoniparambil:
Nonsmooth mixed-integer optimization for MPC of district heating networks |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Discussion | Social Activity:
Hike to Wittnau | Simon Sütterlin:
State and Disturbance Feedback Optimization for Periodic Stochastic Energy Storage OCP |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Léo Simpson
Identification of a Kalman Filter | Rachel
something about multi-kite systems and vortex modelling |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Discussion | Discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break | Moritz Bitterling
High Temperature Packed-Bed Heat Storage for Flexible Supply of Industrial Process Heat (15 min) |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Jakob Harzer
Partitioned Bernstein Polynomials for Affine Constraint Satisfaction in Optimal Control | Ricarda Hogl
Colocated batterlies & Energy Market Trading (5-10 min) |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Discussion | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | | DINNER
at Restaurant Süden | |
