Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann Reger
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postal address
Control Engineering Group
Computer Science and Automation Dept.
Technische Universität Ilmenau
P.O. Box 10 05 65
98684 Ilmenau - Germany
Tel.: + 49 (3677) 69-2817, Room 2025, Zuse-Building
Email: johann.reger@tu-ilmenau.de
Brief Biography
| since July 2008 | Head of the Johann RegerControl Engineering Group, Institute for Automation and Systems Engineering, Computer Science and Automation Dept., TU Ilmenau, Germany |
| 11/2007 – 06/2008 | Postdoc with the Systems and Control Theory Group (Prof. Jörg Raisch), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, and Control Systems Group, TU Berlin, Germany |
| 04/2007 – 11/2007 | Visiting professor with the EECS Control Laboratory (Prof. Jessy Grizzle), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| 01/2005 – 03/2007 | Director of the control laboratory at the Institute for Measurement and Automation, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich, Germany |
| 07/2004 – 12/2004 | Postdoc with the Sección de Mecatrónica (Prof. Sira Ramírez), Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN), Mexico-City |
| 01/1999 – 07/2004 | PhD-Student with the Discrete Event Systems Group (Prof. Thomas Moor) at the Institute for Automatic Control, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Thesis: Linear Systems over Finite Fields — Modeling, Analysis, and Synthesis; Funded by ''Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes'' and ''Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft'' (DFG) under grant RO 2262/3-1/2 |
| 10/1992 – 12/1998 | Student of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) and with the Laser Laboratory of the University of Liverpool (UK) Main areas: Continuum Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Laser Forming, and Applied Mathematics |
Teaching
A list of my current teaching activities may be found here
Research Interests
- Adaptive controller design
- Variable structure and sliding mode control
- System inversion and tracking
- Robust optimal control
- Modulation and FIR-filter based estimation
Please see also my group's web-page
Academic Charges
- Associate Editor of the IEEE-CSS Conference Editorial Board (CEB)
- Associate Editor of the EUCA Conference Editorial Board
- Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Non-Linear Control Systems
- Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control
- Vice Dean at Computer Science and Automation Dept., TU Ilmenau
- Member of the Faculty Council at Computer Science and Automation Dept., TU Ilmenau
- Chairman of the degree program on Technical Cybernetics and Systems Theory, see microsite (in German)
- University Coordinator for activities in the region Central America and Mexico
Publications
See my recent list of publications on ResearchGate.
Technical Reports and Supplements
J. Reger: Supplementary Maple-Worksheets wrt. article "On Algebraic Time-Derivative Estimation and Deadbeat State Reconstruction". [PDF]: proof of equivalence, illustrative example — for the proof you will need to install: Doron Zeilberger's programs EKHAD and MultiZeilberger
J. Reger: Algebraische Modellierung, Analyse und Synthese ereignisdiskreter Systeme über GF(2). Abschlußbericht zum DFG-Vorhaben RO 2262/3-1 und RO 2262/3-2, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. [PDF]