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Tagungen

Tagungen und Workshops

Elgersburger Graphentheorietagung

Fifth International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Applications, Elgersburg, March 16 – 20, 2015

Main speakers

Bang-Jensen, Jørgen
Jendroľ, Stanislav
Kostochka, Alexandr V.
Rjáček, Zdeněk
Toft, Bjarne
Tuza, Zsolt
Woźniak, Mariusz

Fourth International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Applications, Elgersburg, March 21 - 25, 2011

Main speakers

Bondy, Adrian
Chudnovsky, Maria
Mohar, Bojan
Raspaud, André
Saito, Akira

Third International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications, Elgersburg, March 23 – 27, 2009

Main speakers

Broersma, Hajo
Henning, Michael A.
Kriesell, Matthias
Kostochka, Alexandr V.
Maffray, Frédéric
Matousek, Jiri
Pach, János
Plummer, Mike

 

Second International Conference on Graph Theory, Elgersburg, May 8 - 12, 2000

(mit TU Bergakademie Freiberg)

Main speakers

Broersma, Hajo
Enomoto, Hikoe
Faudree, Ralph
Grötschel, Martin
Halin, Rudolf
Harborth, Heiko
Katona, Gyula Y.
Kratochvíl, Jan
Mader, Wolfgang
Rjáček, Zdeněk
Saito, Akira
Schelp, Richard H.
Škoviera, Martin
Vestergaard, Preben Dahl
Vizing, Vadim G.

 

First International Conference on Graph Theory, Elgersburg, May 6 – 10, 1996

(mit TU Cottbus)

Main speakers

Aigner, Martin
Deuber, W.
Erdős, Paul
Faudree, Ralph
Jung, H. A.
Katona, Gyula O. H.
Schelp, Richard H.
Tuza, Zsolt

Elgersburg Schools

Elgersburg Schools 2009 - 2018

  • Elgersburg 2018 March 4 - March 10, 2018

    Vladimir Kharitonov (Saint-Petersburg State University)
    Sergey Dashkovskiy (University of Würzburg)

  • Elgersburg 2017  March 26 - April 1, 2017

    Jan Lunze     (U Bochum):  Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems
    Matthias Gerdts       (Bundeswehr U München): Optimal Control Techniques

  • Elgersburg 2016  February 28 - March 5, 2016

    Pierre Rouchon     (Mines ParisTech):  Quantum Control
    Thomas Meurer       (U Kiel): Control of partial differential equations

  • Elgersburg 2015 March 2-7, 2015

    Lars Grüne (U Bayreuth):  Model Predictive Control
    Carsten Scherer     (U Stuttgart) and Siep Weiland (TU Eindhoven): Linear Matrix Inequalities and Robust Control

  • Elgersburg  2014   March 17-22, 2014

    Andrew Teel (U of California, Santa Barbara):  Hybrid Dynamical Systems
    Stuart Townley     (U of Exeter, UK): Mathematical Biology

  • Elgersburg 2013       Feb. 18-23, 2013

    George Weiss (Tel Aviv U ., Israel): Control in Power Electronics
    Hans Zwart     (Universiteit Twente, Niederlande): Infinite-Dimensional Systems

  • Elgersburg School 2012     March 11-17, 2012

    Mark Embree     (Rice University, USA): Pseudospectra and Nonnormal Dynamical Systems
    Arjan van der Schaft (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): Hamiltonian Control Systems

  • Elgersburg School 2011

    Randy Freemann     (Northwestern University, USA): Nonlinear Control
    Larent Praly     (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France): Observers for Nonlinear Systems

  • Elgersburg School 2010    March 8-13, 2010

    Volker Mehrmann     (TU Berlin): Differential-Algebraic Equations - Control and Numerics
    Jan C. Willems     (KU Leuven, Belgium): Behavioural Approach to Systems Theory
  • Elgersburg School 2009   March 30 - April 3, 2009

    Thanos Antoulas     (Rice University, USA): Model Reduction - Theory and Numerics
    Fredi Tröltzsch     (TU Berlin): Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations

Elgersburg Workshops

GAMM

GAMM 2017

6. - 10. März 2017

Ilmenau @ Weimar

Local Organizers

  • Prof. Carsten Könke
    Bahaus Universität Weimar    , Institute of Structural Mechanics-Structural Analysis and Component Strength
  • Prof. Carsten Trunk
    Technische Universität Ilmenau, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute for Mathematics

 

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GAMM Juniors' Summer School

GAMM Workshops

IL-KE-Workshop über Graphentheorie

Seit etwa 25 Jahren bestehen zwischen den Graphentheorie-Gruppen der P. J. Šafárik Universität Košice, Slowakei, und der Technischen Universität Ilmenau enge wissenschaftliche Beziehungen. Im Jahr 2015 wurden die IL-KE-Workshops als eine weitere gemeinsame Forschungsveranstaltung der Graphentheorie-Gruppen beider Einrichtungen ins Leben gerufen.

11. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Dörnfeld, 30.03.-03.04.2020
      - abgesagt!

Forschungsthemen des laufenden PPP-Projektes mit der Graphentheoriegruppe der Universität Košice

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

10. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Chromatische Graphentheorie, Herľany (Košice), Slowakei, 10.02.-14.02.2020

Forschungsthema: Färbungseigenschaften von 1-planaren Graphen

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

9. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Nový Smokovec (Košice), Slowakei, 04.09.-08.09.2019

Forschungsthema: Struktur von Graphen und Algorithmen

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

8. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Košice, Slowakei, 22.07.-26.07.2019

Forschungsthemen

  • Kreisspektren von Graphen
  • Tutte-Theorie für 1-planare Graphen

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

7. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Dörnfeld, 04.03.-08.03.2019

Forschungsthema: Spezielle Probleme der strukturellen Graphentheorie

(Auftaktveranstaltung im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes 2019/2020 mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

6. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Nový Smokovec (Košice), Slowakei, 02.09.-07.09.2018

Forschungsthemen

  • leichte Wege in Graphen
  • Minoren und Hadwigers Vermutung

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

5. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Elgersburg, 19.04.-22.04.2018

Forschungsthema: Shortness exponents of 1-planar graphs

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

4. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Heyda, 19.03.-23.03.2018

Forschungsthemen

  • 3-Färbungen von Graphen mit verbotenen induzierten Untergraphen
  • längste Kreise in 1-planaren Graphen
  • Kreisspektrum von 4-fach zusammenhängenden planaren Graphen

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

3. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Košice, Slowakei, 17.07.-20.07.2017

Forschungsthema: Zusammenhang von Graphen

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

2. IL-KE Graph Workshop über Strukturelle Graphentheorie, Heyda, 20.03.-24.03.2017

Forschungsthemen

  • 1-planare Graphen
  • minimal k-kantenzusammenhängende Graphen
  • wesentlich 4-fach zusammenhängende planare Graphen

(durchgeführt im Rahmen des PPP-Projektes mit der Universität Košice, gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF))

1. IL-KE Graph Workshop, Veľká Tŕňa, Slowakei, 25.02.-27.02.2015

Forschungsthema: Längste Kreise in planaren Graphen

IWOTA

IWOTA 2019, 22-26 July, Lisbon (Portugal)



Organizers:
Andrii Khrabutovskyi, Olaf Post, Carsten Trunk

 

Special session:


Spectral Theory and Differential Operators

SpeakerTitle
Benrabah AbderafikMultiparameter regularization method for an ill-posed homogeneous biharmonic problem
Yagub AliyevSturm-Liouville problems with eigenparameter dependent boundary conditions
Neeru BalaHyperinvariant subspace for AN and AM-operators
Andrey BadaninSpectral theory of third order operator associated with the good Boussinesq equation
Diana BarseghyanSpectral geometry in a rotating frame: properties of the ground state
Siegfried BeckusHunting the spectra via approximations
Sergey BelyiPerturbations of Donoghue classes
Mohammed Berkani On the B-discrete spectrum
Harm BartThe logarithmic residue theorem in higher dimensions: a multifaceted issue.
Miron BekkerSelf-adjoint extensions of symmetric scale-invariant operators
Giorgia BellomonteContinuous frames for unbounded operators
Irina BlinovaScattering, spectrum and resonance states completeness for quantum graph with Rashba
Hamiltonian
Malcolm BrownUniqueness for an inverse boundary value problem in electromagnetism
Hakima BouhadjeraMore general common fixed point theorems under a new concept
Lyonell BoultonSpectral Properties of a Non-commutative Harmonic Oscillator
Sameer ChavanRank one perturbations
Fabrizio ColomboApplications of Spectral theory on the S-spectrum to fractional
di usion problems
Graham Cox 

Spectral flow, nodal deficiency, and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

Preeti DharmarhaOn α-Weyl operators and α-Weyl Spectrum
Maria Faleeva

Distance between the transmission matrix and the subspace of tensor product, singular numbers and entangled qubits transmission through a turbulent atmosphere

Carla FarsiSpectral triples and wavelets for k-graphs
Dale FrymarkBoundary Triples and Weyl m-functions for Powers of Some Classical Sturm--Liouville Operators
Stephen A. Fulling

Spectral Asymptotics in Renormalization

Matthew FurySource identification for non-homogeneous ill-posed problems associated with generators of holomorphic semigroups
Jihed HedhlyUpper bound for the ratios of eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with nonnegative single-barrier potentials
Orif Ibrogimov

Eigenvalue enclosures for singular indefinite Sturm-Liouville operators

Atsuhide IshidaPropagation property and inverse scattering for fractional powers of negative Laplacian
Damian KolaczekError bounds for time evolution operator splitting. The Kato-Trotter and the Strang formula
Andrii KhrabutovskyiConstruction of differential operators with prescribed spectral properties
Martin KlausAsymptotics for the number and moments of eigenvalues of Zakharov-Shabat systems with long-range potential
V B Kiran KumarSpectral Approximation of Family of Operators
Tereza KurimaiováSpectral properties of the damped wave equation
Anton KutsenkoFinite PDEs and finite ODEs are isomorphic​

Jordan MakwanaA characterization of the positive, self-adjoint extensions of a class of Jacobi operators
Albert Mas Periodic solutions of integro-differential equations
Marat MarkinOn the Smoothness of Weak Solutions of an Abstract Evolution Equation with a Scalar Type Spectral Operator on the Real Axis
Francisco Martínez PeríaSpectral enclosures for a class of block operator matrices
Vsevolod MartseniukImplicit second order linear difference equations and infinite linear systems
Yulia Meshkova Variations on the theme of the Trotter-Kato theorem for homogenization of periodic hyperbolic systems
Boitumelo Moletsane

Asymptotics of fourth order differential operators with eigenvalue dependent boundary conditions, periodic boundary conditions

Mohammed Hichem MortadMatrices of Unbounded Operators and Applications to Counterexamples
Madi MuratbekovMaximum regularity and two-sided estimates for the approximation numbers of solutions of the nonlinear Sturm-Liouville equation with rapidly oscillating coefficients in L2(R)
Hiroaki NiikuniEmbedded eigenvalues in the spectral bands for carbon nanotubes with impurities
Lina OliveiraHermitian projections on a JB*-triple
Friedrich PhilippSpectral bounds on J-selfadjoint operator matrices and perturbations of J-nonnegative operators
Igor PopovPotential supported by line with small window in a quantum waveguide: resonance asymptotics
Raphael PrucknerBounds for the Weyl coefficient of a canonical system
Łukasz RzepnickiOn asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the Dirac system and applications
Valery SerovSpectral problems for elliptic operators with singular coefficients
Some
Ali ShukurSpectral analysis of linear chaotic operators
Rúben Sousa

Product formulas and convolutions for solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations

Frantisek StampachNew explicitly diagonalizable Hankel matrices
Tatiana Suslina

Homogenization of hyperbolic equations with periodic coefficients

Jari TaskinenSpectra of the Robin-Laplace- and Steklov-problems in bounded, cuspidal domains
Alexander Teplyaev Spectral analysis and waves on fractals
Michal TichýLarge time and analytic solutions of reaction-diffusion problem on a growing domain using
symmetry methods
Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa Ruled strips with asymptotically diverging twisting
Carsten Trunk Invariance of the essential spectra of operator pencils
Gerald WanjalaSpectral theory and stability of index for linear relations
Marcus WaurickThe Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator on general domains
Rudi WeikardSpectral Theory for Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations with Distributional Coefficients
Ian WoodEssential spectrum for Maxwell's equation
Harald Woracek

Limit behaviour of Nevanlinna functions

Christian WyssSelfadjointness in rigged Hilbert and Krein spaces
Petr Zemanek

On linear relations associated with discrete symplectic systems

 Programme

 

 

XXIVth. International Workshop
on Operator Theory and its Applications

Monday 16 December to Friday 20 December, 2013.


Thematic Sessions:
Spectral theory and differential operators

(Paul Binding, Tom ter Elst and Carsten Trunk)

 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

MONDAY, December, 16

Time

Speaker

Title

14:15-15:00

Carsten Trunk

On a class of Sturm-Liouville operators which are connected to PT quantum mechanics [PDF]

15:00-15:45

Rostyslav Hryniv

Reconstruction of Sturm-Liouville operators with energy-dependent potentials [PDF]


TUESDAY, December, 17

Time

Speaker

Title

14:15-15:00

Vadim Kostrykin

The div A grad without ellipticity [PDF]

15:00-15:45

Pierre Portal

Non-autonomous parabolic systems with rough coefficients [PDF]

15:45-16:30

Jonathan Rohleder

Titchmarsh-Weyl theory for elliptic differential operators [PDF]


WEDNESDAY, December, 18

Time

Speaker

Title
14:15-15:00 Alexei Rybkin

On the Hankel operator approach to completely integrable systems [PDF]

15:00-15:45

Andreas Ioannidis

The eigenvalue problem for the Cavity Maxwell operator [PDF]

15:45-16:30

Petr Siegl

Root system of perturbations of harmonic and anharmonic oscillators [PDF]


THURSDAY, December, 19

Time

Speaker

Title
14:15-15:00 Maria Kovaleva

Stokes graph and non-oscillating solutions
[PDF]

15:00-15:45

Kiran Kumar

Truncation method for random bounded self-adjoint operators [PDF]

15:45-16:30

Anton Popov

Spectral analysis for three coupled strips quantum graph [PDF]

  

 

IWOTA 2010
   Technische Universität Berlin, 12.-16. July 2010

Koloquium über Kombinatorik

Kolloquium über Kombinatorik

Das Kolloquium, welches seit 1981 jährlich an verschiedenen Universitäten Deutschlands veranstaltet wird, ist ein Forum, welches jungen Forschern und etablierten Wissenschaftlern die Möglichkeit zum gemeinsamen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und Austausch von Forschungsresultaten bietet. Thematisch sind Beiträge aus allen Bereichen der Kombinatorik und Diskreten Mathematik bis hin zur Algebra, Geometrie, Optimierung und Informatik willkommen.

In den Jaheren 2013 - 2015 fand dieses Kolloquium an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau statt.

Eine ausfühliche Übersicht ist auf www.kolkom.de zu finden.

 

Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Kolkom 2015

Kolkom 2014

Kolkom 2013

Scientific Network

Set Point Stabilisation, Path Following, and Distributed Control

Members

Associated Members

Kick-off meeting

2015: July 12th - July 14th
at Technische Universität Ilmenau

Programme [PDF]

Accomodation: Hotel Garni am Kirchplatz

Do you want to participate? Please contact Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karl Worthmann




2nd Meeting

1st Symposium on Robotics and Model Predictive Control: Path Following
at BIBA, Universität Bremen
Dates: 13th - 16th of September 2015


Invited Speakers:

  • Boris Houska, Assistant Professor, PhD (School of Information Science and Technology ShanghaiTech University, China)

Speakers:


Organizers: Jürgen Pannek and Karl Worthmann

Accomodation: FIVE SEASONS designhotel Bremen
Do you want to participate? Please contact Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karl Worthmann

 

Program                                            Flyer

3rd Meeting

Workshop on Economic and Distributed Model Predictive Control
at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates: 21st - 22nd of March 2016

Program

Organizers: Timm Fraulwasser, Colin Jones, and Karl Worthmann

Invited Speakers

Andrea Alessandretti, EPFL, Switzerland

Andrea Alessandretti: Continuous-Time Model Predictive Control for Economic Optimization: Theory, Design, and Applications to Motion Control of Underactuated Vehicles

This talk presents some recent results on the design of optimization-based control laws for the case where convergence to a desired set-point, minimization of an arbitrary performance index, or a combination of the two, is the desired objective. In recent years a growing attention has been dedicated to a new class of controllers that goes under the name of Economic-MPC, where. Here, the term economic is used to stress the fact that the performance index is a general index of interest that we wish to minimize, e.g., economic, which generally does not denote the distance to a desired set point. This setting makes full use of the potentialities of optimization-based control strategies. Although, it comes with some challenges. In fact, by choosing an arbitrary performance index, it is difficult to predict the evolution of the closed-loop system, which could potentially manifest undesirable behaviors. This talk presents analysis and certification of a variety of closed-loop behaviors stemming from the use Economic-MPC controllers. A set of tools for design of provably correct MPC controllers is provided for the case where the performance index is of the Tracking-MPC type, purely economic, or a combination of the two. The results focus the certification of both closed-loop economic performance and closed-loop state evolution. The proposed strategies are applied to a range of motion control problems for underactuated vehicles. An MPC controller for Trajectory-Tracking and Path-Following with convergence guarantees is first proposed and then extended, using the results presented on Economic-MPC, to address the control problems of distributed formation keeping, energy efficient trajectory-tracking, and target-following through highly observable trajectories.

Prof. Dr. Boris Houska, ShanghaiTech University, China

Prof. Dr. Houska: ALADIN---An Augmented Lagrangian Based Algorithm for Distributed Non-Convex Optimization and Control

This talk is about distributed derivative-based algorithms for solving optimization problems with a separable, potentially nonconvex objective function and coupled affine constraints. We propose an Augmented Lagrangian Based Alternating Direction Inexact Newton method (ALADIN), which combines ideas from the fields of sequential quadratic programming and augmented Lagrangian algorithms. In contrast to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), ALADIN has a superlinear convergence rate under suitable conditions and is applicable to nonconvex optimization problems. We illustrate the practical performance of ALADIN with applications from the field of distributed optimization and real-time model predictive control.

Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Zeilinger: Distributed Predictive Control: Changing Topologies and Certified Computation

The control of a network of interacting dynamical systems is a central challenge for addressing a range of emerging application problems. Utilizing the connectivity and interactions in the network by exploiting advances in communication and computation technologies offers the potential for pushing these systems to higher performance while increasing efficiency of operation, which will reduce system over-design and associated costs. However, safety requirements and high system complexity represent key limiting factors for leveraging these new opportunities. This talk will present some of our recent work that brings high-performance control with hard guarantees on system safety to distributed systems, offering a scalable and modular approach that exploits interconnection effects and flexibly adjusts to network changes. A framework for plug and play distributed predictive control will be introduced and we will discuss essential theoretical and practical aspects for certifying distributed decision-making based on an optimization-in-the-loop paradigm. We will present an application example of these ideas to load shaping and voltage control in smart grids. Lastly, we will discuss some the computational aspects of the framework and present new results for certifying optimization with limited-precision computation or communication .

Speakers

Dr.-Ing. Matthias Müller, University of Stuttgard, Germany

Dr.-Ing. Müller: Economic MPC: the role of dissipativity and application potentials in cooperative control

Economic model predictive control is a variant of MPC where in contrast to the classical control objective of stabilization, a more general performance criterion is considered which is possibly related to the economics of the considered system. Such a control objective arises in many applications such as, e.g., in the process industry, in wind turbine control, or builing climate control. In the first part of this talk, we show that dissipativity plays a crucial role in the context of economic MPC. In particular, we show that under mild technical assumptions, both cases where the optimal operating behavior is constant or periodic can equivalently be characterized by a suitable dissipativity condition. Furthermore, we discuss implications of these results for statements about the closed-loop system resulting from application of economic MPC schemes. In the second part of the talk, we present a distributed economic MPC algorithm which is suited for cooperative control problems in networks of self-interested systems. The proposed framework is such that the optimal cooperative behavior is synthesized online while the systems already take control actions, which makes it readily applicable in plug-and-play settings.

Mario Zanon, PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

PhD Zanon: Tuning of Tracking MPC Based on Economic Criteria

The stability proof for economic Model Predictive Control (MPC) relies on strict dissipativity, which is in general difficult to establish. In contrast, tracking MPC has well-established and practically applicable stability guarantees, but can yield poor closed-loop performance in terms of the selected economic criterion. We propose a strategy to tune tracking MPC schemes so as to locally approximate the behaviour of economic MPC while guaranteeing stability of the closed-loop system.

4th Meeting

Workshop on Model Predictive Control: Real-time implementation and new applications
at Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Dates: August 29 - 31, 2016

Program [pdf]

Organizers: Matthias Müller and Karl Worthmann

Invited Speakers

Prof. Dr. Boris Houska (ShanghaiTech University)

Prof. Dr. Houska: Self-reflective model predictive control

This talk is about a novel control scheme, named self-reflective model predictive control, which takes its own limitations in the presence of process noise and measurement errors into account. In contrast to existing output-feedback MPC and persistently exciting MPC controllers, self-reflective MPC controllers do not only propagate a matrix-valued state forward in time in order to predict the variance of future state-estimates, but they also propagate a matrix-valued adjoint state backward in time. This adjoint state is used by the controller to compute and minimize a second order approximation of its own expected loss of control performance in the presence of random process noise and inexact state estimates. A second part of the talk introduces a real-time algorithm, which can exploit the particular structure of the self-reflective MPC problems in order to speed-up the online computation time. It is shown that, in contrast to generic state-of-the-art optimal control problem solvers, the proposed algorithm can solve the self-reflective optimization problems with reasonable additional computational effort compared to standard MPC. The advantages of the proposed real-time scheme are illustrated by applying it to a benchmark predator-prey-feeding control problem.

Yuning Jiang (ShanghaiTech University)

Yuning Jiang: Distributed Optimization and Control with ALADIN

Structured nonlinear optimization problems arise in a variety of control applications ranging from nonlinear model predictive control via robust control for uncertain processes to distributed nonlinear control of hybrid systems. Recently, the Augmented Lagrangian based Alternating Direction Inexact Newton (ALADIN) method has been proposed to solve non-convex distributed optimization problems to local optimality. After reviewing the main idea of ALADIN, this talk focusses on three applications. The first one is about a real-time variant of ALADIN, which can be used to solve nonlinear model predictive control problems with long horizons. The performance of this real-time variant of ALADIN is illustrated by applying it to a continuously stirred tank reactor. The second application is about coordinating autonomous vehicles at traffic intersections. Finally, a third application of ALADIN in the field stochastic robust control is introduced, where an ensemble of uncertainty scenarios is optimized. We show how ALADIN can be used to robustly control an exothermic tubular plug flow reactor.

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pannek (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik)

Prof. Dr. Pannek: Model Predictive Control as Enabler for (Inter-)Industrial Applications

As the potential of embedded control systems appears to be reached for many applications, information and communication technology (ICT) offers new possibilities to extend the potential of single applications in networks. Within the scope of Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things, embedded systems have been opened up to cyber-physical systems (CPS), which allow for both governed and coordinated concepts of control. Until now, most of these ideas were applied in scenarios within one company or between competitors leading to cooperative and non cooperative control schemes. Within this presentation, we show how Model Predictive Control (MPC) can be used as a holistic approach on operational, tactical and strategic level. We illustrate these by examples from distributed material flow systems in in-house logistics, reconfigurable machine tools in job shop systems and human robot collaboration in manufacturing on operational level, the amazon problem in last mile transport as well as perishable goods in transocean transport on tactical level, and decision support in transport and manufacturing on strategic level. To conclude and extend the ideas and possibilities offered by MPC, ICT and CPS, we last show an application where the economical players are even from different industrial sectors. In particular, we show how mobility and energy networks can be combined to allow for synergies for both industrial sectors.

Do you want to participate? Please contact Dr.-Ing. Matthias Müller

Project description

In the context of autonomous mobile robots, the application of nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) has  been proposed for different control tasks such as set-point stabilization, trajectory tracking, and path following. For these application areas the question of sufficient stability conditions can be answered with the help of additional terminal constraints and / or costs. Since these additional (artificial) ingredients are restrictive as soon as obstacles or several mobile robots are taken into account, avoiding these stability enforcing constraints is of practical interest.

Within the scientific network our goal is to develop rigorous stability guarantees that require neither terminal regions nor terminal constraints. Herein, we follow a three stage program:
First, we focus on set point stabilization for continuous time formulations as well as for the respective sampled-data implementations. Secondly, based on the obtained results, we consider path following tasks in order to enable the mobile robots to circumvent static obstacles. And last, we investigate a setting with several mobile robots. Flanking this theoretical part, we plan to implement and test the proposed MPC schemes as well as measure their performance utilizing both simulations and prototypes.

The proposed project shall establish a collaboration platform for early stage researchers working on different aspects of MPC, which will allow for identifying and fostering future joint research projects.

Beyond Set Point Stabilization

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6th Meeting

Workshop on Model Predictive Control

March 5 - 6, 2018, Berlin, Germany

Program [PDF]

Organizers: Timm Faulwasser, Jürgen Pannek and Marleen Stieler

             

 

Local organizer: Sergio Lucia

5th Meeting

Workshop on Model Predictive Control

September 4 - 6, 2017, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Program [pdf]

Organizers: Boris Houska, Karl Worthmann and Mario Zanon

Participants

         

Meeting with Industry

  • Dr.-Ing. K.D. Listmann (ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg)
  • Dr.-Ing. U. Münz (Siemens Corporate Technology, Princeton, NJ, USA)
  • Dr.-Ing. M. Reble (BASF Advanced Process Control, Ludwigshafen)
  • Dr.-Ing. M. Werling (BMW Research and Technology, München)

Do you want to participate? Please contact Dr.-Ing. Timm Faulwasser

Project description

The project serves as a stage for scientific interaction between up-and-coming scientists, who are devoted to current trends in model predictive control (MPC):

  • Distributed MPC of interconnected systems is concerned with automatic control of cyber physical systems. The different approaches are mainly distinguished with respect to the intensity of collaboration (level of cooperation).
  • Self-tuning MPC exhibits additional flexibility and, thus, enlarges the range of potential applications. This allows for fault-tolerant control and the adaptation of the algorithm during its runtime to realize the control task.

The study and analysis of interconnected, spatially distributed or differently coupled systems opens up new perspectives, which are, e.g., essential in multi-agent systems (mobile robots), in logistics from the viewpoint of Industrie 4.0 or within the control of renewable energy systems. Within this paradigm shift <em>economic MPC</em> plays a major role. Here, the stage costs are directly taken from the respective application. Hence, set points or periodic orbits are the outcome of the optimization and not set a priori as optimization objective.
Thereby, a key objective is to build up a network to tackle joint, innovative research projects, which are both scientifical sound and applicable to industrially relevant control problems.

Siegmundsburg Workshop

Workshop Cycles and Colorings

Der Workshop Cycles and Colorings ist eine der renommiertesten internationalen Tagungen über Graphentheorie in Europa und wird seit 1992 jährlich gemeinsam von den Graphentheoriegruppen der mathematischen Institute der P. J. Šafárik Universität Košice und der Technischen Universität Ilmenau veranstaltet.

Eine ausführliche Übersicht ist unter http://candc.upjs.sk zu finden.

Workshop Operator Theory in Krein Spaces