Florian Messerer

PhD Student

    

 

** 2025 Summer School on Robust Model Predictive Control with CasADi **

 

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 returned 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.

Optimality and Suboptimality of MPPI Control in Stochastic and Deterministic Settings.
Hannes Homburger, Florian Messerer, Moritz Diehl, Johannes Reuter.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20953, 2025.
 

Also see my google scholar page and my arXiv list.

 

Teaching

Lecturing

Organization / TA

Tutoring

  • Semester course on systems theory and control, summer 2016

  • Semester course on optimization, summer 2016

  • Math precourse for new first-year students, summer 2013

 

Publications