The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member, Johann Bredner who will strengthen our Automatic Train Operation team.
Johann studied Systems Engineering and Ttechnical Cybernetics for his bachelor's and master's degree at Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg.

The ACSD lab welcomes Elena Werner, head of research at Alpha-Protein GmbH and PhD student at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. She visits our professorship to strengthen the collaboration with Alpha-Protein GmbH. Together we want to work on improving rearing of mealworm Tenebrio molitor.

The ACSD lab along with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manuel Schaller (Numerische Mathematik, TU Chemnitz) will host the GAMM-Fachausschuss "Dynamik und Regelungstheorie" which takes place from March 20th to March 21st 2025 at TU Chemnitz. All information as well as the registration can be found here.

Our Controlled Environment Agriculture research area leader Felix Krujatz received an AgriNext Award for Excellence in Agriculture at the AgriNext Conference (13th-14th November 2024, held in Dubai). He is one of 26 outstanding leaders who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in their fields.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Wunderlich (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus) will give a talk on Stochastic Optimal Control of Heating Systems with a Geothermal Energy Storage at 04:00 pm in 2/N113 (in conjunction with Chemnitzer Mathematisches Kolloquium). Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team members, Dr. Zühal Kurt and Dr. Ángeles Hoyo Sánchez who will strengthen our Controlled Environment Agriculture team.
Zühal was working on graph-based recommendation systems in her PhD dissertation at the Anadolu University (Türkiye). She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Fraunhofer IDMT and developed an explainable knowledge graph-based news recommendation system as an AI4Media Horizon project WG member. On the other hand, she had studies in medical image processing, machine learning and computer vision research areas.
Ángeles received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Electronic Engineering and an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Almería (Spain) in 2016 and 2018, respectively. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Almería in 2023. Her research interests focus on PID control, control education, process control, and robust control, with applications to agricultural processes, solar plants, and biotechnology.

The following press release from Freie Presse gives insights into the goals of our train-related project, where, for example, a braking control is developed for precise braking of passenger trains.

Our team member Murali Padmanabha has successfully defended his dissertation with the title Optimal Control Strategies for Synergetic Insect and Plant Production: Maximizing Yield, Resource Efficiency and Sustainability.

The ACSD Lab presents a peer-reviewed publication at the Conference on Decision and Control 2024, which takes place in Milano on December 16th-19th. The paper is titled:

• Tube-Based MPC for Two-Timescale Discrete-Time Nonlinear Processes with Robust Control Contraction Metrics