Projects

Running Projects

• DFG project “Analysis of Random Transport in Chains using Modern Tools from Systems and Control Theory”
• DFG project “Curse-of-dimensionality-free nonlinear optimal feedback control with deep neural networks. Spatially decreasing sensitivity and nonsmooth problems”
• DFG project “Multilevel Architectures and Algorithms in Deep Learning”
• DFG project “Stochastic Optimal Control and MPC – Dissipativity, Risk and Performance”
  
  
• Industrial project “HIRGEV - Heat Resilient Health Care”
  (funded by the Innovation Fund of the Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss)
• Project “Nonconvex subdifferentials in nonsmooth optimization”
  (funded by Tel Aviv University and The Hermann Minkowski Center for Geometry, Israel)
• Project “Set-valued numerical analysis”
  (funded by The Hermann Minkowski Center for Geometry in Tel Aviv, Israel; DAAD; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Finished Projects – sorted by time

until 2024:

• DFG project “Curse-of-dimensionality-free nonlinear optimal feedback control with deep neural networks. A compositionality-based approach via Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs”

until 2023:

• DFG project “Performance analysis for distributed and multiobjective model predictive control – The role of Pareto fronts, multiobjective dissipativity and multiple equilibria”
• Industrial project “Model predictive control of combined cycle power plants”
  (funded by Siemens AG, Divison Power and Gas, Erlangen)

until 2022:

• DFG project “Identification of Stresses in Heterogeneous Contact Models”
• DFG project “Nonsmooth multi-level optimization algorithms for energetic formulations of finite-strain elastoplasticity”

until 2020:

• DFG project “Model predictive PDE control for energy efficient building operation: economic model predictive control and time varying systems”
• DFG project “Specialized adaptive algorithms for model predictive control of PDEs”

until 2019:

• DFG project “Optimal control of static contact in finite strain elasticity”
• DFG project “Optimization on manifolds for the numerical solution of equality constrained variational problems”

until 2018:

• DFG project “Performance analysis for distributed and multiobjective model predictive control”
• PhD Project “Feedback-based trading strategies on noisy markets”
  (PhD scholarship of the Hanns Seidel Stiftung e. V. (HSS), funded by BMBF)

until 2017:

• DFG project “Model predictive control for the Fokker-Planck equation”

until 2016:

• BMBF project “Wear simulation of knee implants and shape optimization for patient-group specific wear minimization” (SOAK) – Subproject 3

until 2015:

• DFG project “Analysis and design of event-based control with quantized measurements – networked systems”
• DFG project “Development of decentralized asynchronous predictive control methods for digitally networked systems”

until 2014:

• DFG Priority Programme [Schwerpunktprogramm] 1305 “Control theory for digitally networked dynamical systems”
• ITN SADCO: Marie-Curie Initial Training Network “Sensitivity analysis for deterministic controller design”
• ITN SADCO “Large scale systems: sensitivity analysis and numerical methods” (Task 1.4)
• ITN SADCO “Optimal control approaches to reachability analysis: safety & avoidance” (Task 2.5)
• ITN SADCO “Stability analysis via coupled Hamilton-Jacobi equations” (Task 3.1)
• ITN SADCO “The formulation and online solution of optimal control problems. Robust nonlinear model predictive control” (Task 3.3)

until 2013:

• International Doctorate Program within the Elite Network of Bavaria “Identification, optimization and control with applications in modern technologies”
• ITN SADCO “Discrete mechanics and optimal control” (Task 1.5)

until 2010:

• DFG project “Analysis and design of discrete event controllers with quantized signal spaces”
• DFG project “Development of asynchronous predictive control methods for digitally networked dynamical systems”
• Edition of “Bayreuther Mathematische Schriften (BMS)”
  (funded by the Department of Mathematics)

until 2009:

• DAAD project “Mathematical methods of operations research”

until 2004:

• Project “Global numerical solution of stochastic optimal control problems”
  (funded by Zentrum für Empirische Makroökonomie, University of Bielefeld)
• Project “Nonlinear sampled-data control systems and numerical methods”
  (funded by Australian Research Council (ARC), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)