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05MAY 2026
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Lars Ullrich Awarded prostep ivip Scientific Award for Doctoral Thesis
On the occasion of the prostep ivip Symposium at Kap Europa, Frankfurt am Main (April 14–15, 2026), our colleague Lars Ullrich was awarded the prostep ivip Scientific Award for his doctoral thesis “Towards Intelligent, Safe, and Scalable Autonomy: A Study Driven by Trajectory Planning for Automated Vehicles.” The award was presented within the Scientific Track at the […]
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04MAR 2026
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Control Engineering Community meets at the 60th Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium in Boppard
From 25 to 27 February 2026, the 60th “Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium” was held in Boppard. Around 200 participants from academia and industry gathered to discuss recent developments in control and automation engineering. Under the scientific direction of Knut Graichen, the anniversary colloquium featured a diverse program with presentations by early-career researchers from various areas of control […]From 25 to 27 February 2026, the 60th “Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium” was held in Boppard. Around 200 participants from academia and industry gathered to discuss recent developments in control and automation engineering. Under the scientific direction of Knut Graichen, the anniversary colloquium featured a diverse program with presentations by early-career researchers from various areas of control […]
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12JAN 2026
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New employee: Elias Michalk
We welcome Elias Michalk, who joined our chair as a research assistant working on the DFG project „Verteilte modellprädiktive Regelung mittels sensitivitätsbasierter primaler Dekomposition“. His research focuses on distributed model predictive control using sensitivity-based primal decomposition approaches.
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09JAN 2026
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New employee: Lukas Wegmann
Lukas Wegmann joined our chair in January as a research assistant working on an industrial collaboration.His research focuses on robust control of omnidirectional mobile robots, as well as their coordination and trajectory planning in highly dynamic and uncertain environments.
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08DEC 2025
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Joint Control Workshop of TUM and FAU at Schloss Hirschberg
From December 4 to 6, 2025, the Chairs of Automatic Control of the Technical University of Munich (Prof. Boris Lohmann) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Knut Graichen) held their joint workshop at Schloss Hirschberg in Beilngries. During the three-day meeting, researchers from both universities presented and discussed current work in the areas of model predictive control, […]From December 4 to 6, 2025, the Chairs of Automatic Control of the Technical University of Munich (Prof. Boris Lohmann) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Knut Graichen) held their joint workshop at Schloss Hirschberg in Beilngries. During the three-day meeting, researchers from both universities presented and discussed current work in the areas of model predictive control, […]
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18NOV 2025
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New employee: Jahandar Zeynalli
Jahandar Zeynalli has joined the chair as a research assistant working on the DFG project“Synergy-based Model Predictive Interaction Control of a Robotic Hand–Arm System,” conducted in collaboration with Prof. Philipp Beckerle’s Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics.In his research, he investigates the use of synergies in Model Predictive Interaction Control (MPIC) and the unification of […]Jahandar Zeynalli has joined the chair as a research assistant working on the DFG project“Synergy-based Model Predictive Interaction Control of a Robotic Hand–Arm System,” conducted in collaboration with Prof. Philipp Beckerle’s Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics.In his research, he investigates the use of synergies in Model Predictive Interaction Control (MPIC) and the unification of […]
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