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Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
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Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik

Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik

At the IST, we have regular talks by international experts on the topics related to the research interests of the institute

Invitation to seminar series "Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik"

organized by

Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart

in cooperation with

current program

KTK Program Summer Term 2025

TIME: Tuesdays · 4 p.m. (unless announced differently)
PLACE: Room 2.255 · Pfaffenwaldring 9 · University of Stuttgart · Campus Vaihingen

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Upcoming events

Past Events

Talk of Prof. Andrea Simonetto

27. May 2025 16:00

--- Title: Flexible Optimization for Cyber-Physical and Human Systems

Talk of Prof. David Angeli

20. May 2025 16:00

--- Title: A Contraction Theoretic Approach for Analysis and Control of Non-Oscillatory Systems

Talk of Prof. Bo Wahlberg

14. May 2025 13:00

--- Title: On Planning and Control of Intelligent Vehicles

Talk of Prof. Dr. Leon Bungert

14. May 2025 09:30

--- Title: It Begins with a Boundary: Robustness on the Interface of Geometry and Probability

Talk of Janani Venkatasubramanian, M.Sc.

07. May 2025 16:00

--- Title: Targeted Exploration Meets Robust Control: A Tractable Dual Control Approach for Linear Systems

Talk of Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre

04. February 2025 16:00

--- Title: Regulation without Calibration

Talk of Prof. Antonis Papachristodoulou

24. January 2025 14:00

--- Title: Analysis and Design of Safe Control Laws

Talk of Prof. Maurice Heemels

21. January 2025 16:00

--- Title: New Methods for Large-Scale and Data-based MPC

Talk of Prof. Steffi Knorn

14. January 2025 16:00

--- Title: Scalability in Multiagent Systems - How to Allow them to Grow and Adapt without Compromising Performance

Talk of Dr.-Ing. Behrang Ashtari

08. January 2025 15:30

--- Title: Cross-Domain Data Across the Entire Lifecycle of Medical Technology Products: Technologies, Challenges, and Research Gaps

Talk of Prof. Naomi Leonard

13. December 2024 14:00

--- Title: Excitable Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (E-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making and Control

Talk of Prof. Roy S. Smith

05. December 2024 13:00

--- Title: Data as Models? A Closer Look at Data-Driven Control Systems

Talk of Patricia Pauli

28. November 2024 17:00

--- Title: Analysis and design of Lipschitz bounded convolutional neural networks – a control perspective

Talk of Prof. Gerwald Lichtenberg

22. November 2024 14:00

--- Title: Multilinear Models - Theory & Applications

Talk of Prof. Alberto Bemporad

29. October 2024 15:00

--- Title: Learning-based Methods for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Talk of Prof. Alexander Schaum

22. October 2024 16:00

--- Title: Modeling and Control in Food Systems

Talk of Prof. Thomas Schön

28. August 2024 16:00

--- Title: Learning nonlinear dynamics and a brief look at the diffusion model

Talk of Prof. Riccardo Ferrari

09. July 2024 16:00

--- Title: Detecting the Undetectable: Using Watermarks to Reveal Stealthy Cyber-Attacks to Control Systems

Talk of Dr. Claire Vernade

02. July 2024 16:00

--- Title: Reinforcement Learning Theory towards Robust Discovery in Science

Talk of Dr. Konstantinos Gatsis

25. June 2024 16:00

--- Title: On the Intersection between Neural Network Systems and Control Systems

Talk of Prof. Lucy Pao

24. June 2024 16:00

--- Title: Sink or Swim: Control of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Talk of Dr. Luca Furieri

11. June 2024 16:00

--- Title: Learning to Optimize with Convergence Guarantees Using Nonlinear System Theory

Talk of Prof. Dinesh Krishnamoorthy

28. May 2024 16:00

--- Title: Leveraging NLP Parametric Sensitivities for Learning-Based MPC and Distributed MPC Paradigms

Talk of Prof. Murat Arcak

17. May 2024 14:00

--- Title: Population Games, Evolutionary Dynamics, and Applications to Traffic Management

Talk of Prof. Peter Seiler

17. May 2024 11:00

--- Title: Robust Online Convex Optimization for Disturbance Rejection

Talk of Prof. Cristian Rojas

07. May 2024 16:00

--- Title: The Two-Stage Method: A Computationally Efficient and Private Approach to Statistical Learning

Talk of Prof. Mathias Staudigl

30. April 2024 16:00

--- Title: Hierarchical Optimization and Equilibrium Problems in Uncertain and Dynamic Environments

Talk of Dr. Celestine Mendler-Dünner

23. April 2024 16:00

--- Title: An Introduction to Performative Prediction

Talk of Prof. Fritz Colonius

25. March 2024 14:00

--- Title: Chain Controllability of Linear and Affine Systems

Talk of Prof. Thomas Meurer

20. March 2024 14:00

--- Title: Model- and Data-based Approaches for the Control of Complex High-Dimensional Systems in Process and Production Engineering

Talk of Dr. Jared F. Miller

16. February 2024 14:00

--- Title: Data-Driven Methods using Parameterized Robust Optimization

Talk of Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger

02. February 2024 14:00

--- Title: Predictive Control under Uncertainty - Guarantees, Performance and Computation

Talk of Prof. Ivano Notarnicola

30. January 2024 16:00

--- Title: A System-Theoretic Approach to ADMM for Constraint-Coupled Optimization with Applications in Distributed Network Systems

Talk of Prof. Manuel Mazo

09. January 2024 14:00

--- Title: From Event-Based Control to Data Driven Abstractions

Talk of Prof. Paul Van den Hof

14. November 2023 16:00

--- Title: Identification in interconnected systems – modelling, structural aspects and MATLAB Toolbox

Talk of Tim Martin

31. October 2023 16:00

--- Title: Polynomial Approximation for Data-Driven Control of Nonlinear Systems

Talk of Prof. Robert Bitmead

24. October 2023 16:00

--- Title: State Estimation in a Network Context

Talk of Prof. Daniel Zelazo

15. August 2023 16:00

--- Title: Symmetry-Forced Formation Control

Talk of Prof. Luca Schenato

05. July 2023 11:00

--- Title: On Fundamental Trade-offs and Architecture Design in Networked Control Systems

Talk of Stefan Wildhagen

04. July 2023 16:00

--- Title: Analysis and Design of Aperiodic Sampling in Control Systems

Talk of Prof. Murat Arcak

03. July 2023 16:00

--- Title: Scalable Reachability Analysis

Talk of Dr. Romain Postoyan

27. June 2023 16:00

--- Title: Dynamic Programming for Deterministic Discrete-time Systems: Robust Stability and Near-optimality Guarantees

Talk of Dr. Luiz Chamon

20. June 2023 16:00

--- Title: (Reinforcement) Learning under Requirements

Talk of Prof. Ivan Markovsky

06. June 2023 16:00

--- Title: Behavioral approach to data-driven analysis, signal processing, and control

Talk of Prof. Dominic Liao-McPherson

25. May 2023 10:00

--- Title: A Systems-theoretic Viewpoint on Real-time Optimization and Feedback Games

Talk of Prof. Sebastien Gros

16. May 2023 16:00

--- Title: Reinforcement Learning for MPC: Where are we?

Talk of Dr. Mathias Hudoba de Badyn

12. May 2023 14:00

--- Title: Networks in Control with Smart City Applications

Talk of Prof. Ian Manchester

02. May 2023 09:30

--- Title: Robust Learning for Dynamics and Control

Talk of Dr. Venkatraman Renganathan

14. February 2023 16:00

--- Title: Distributionally Robust Covariance Steering with Optimal Risk Allocation

Talk of Prof. Kanat Camlibel

07. February 2023 16:00

--- Title: From Data to Reduced-Order Models via Generalized Balanced Truncation

Talk of Prof. Duarte Antunes

31. January 2023 16:00

--- Title: Event-Triggered Control: H2 and Hinf

Talk of Dr. Gunther Dirr

24. January 2023 16:00

--- Title: Bilinear Models for Controlling Closed and Open Quantum Systems

Talk of Prof. Andrea Iannelli

10. January 2023 16:00

--- Title: Online Learning for Control: Bringing Sequential Decision Making in the Loop

Talk of Prof. Sergey Dashkovskiy

20. December 2022 15:00

--- Title: Stability Conditions for Nonlinear Impulsive Systems

Talk of Prof. Ali Mesbah

15. December 2022 16:00

--- Title: Performance-Oriented Model Learning and Auto-Tuning of Arbitrary Controllers via Bayesian Optimization

Talk of Dr. Michael Mühlebach

13. December 2022 16:00

--- Title: Optimization with Momentum and Constraints: A Perspective from Smooth and Non-Smooth Dynamics

Talk of Prof. Serkan Gugercin

12. December 2022 13:00

--- Title: Rational Interpolation from Data with Applications to Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems

Talk of Prof. Tobias Sutter

29. November 2022 16:00

--- Title: From Machine Learning to Topological Linear System Identification

Talk of Prof. Martina Maggio

08. November 2022 16:00

--- Title: Control in the Presence of Deadline Misses: Weakly-Hard and (towards) Probabilistic Models

Talk of Prof. Amr Alanwar

18. October 2022 16:00

--- Title: Data-Driven Safety Verification Using Reachability Analysis

Talk of Prof. Farshad Khorrami

29. September 2022 11:00

--- Title: Dynamic High Gain for Prescribed-Time Control of Nonlinear Systems

Talk of Prof. Marc Niethammer

05. July 2021 16:00

--- Title: Image Registration and Deep Neural Network Representations

Talk of Prof. M.-A. Belabbas

11. February 2020 16:00

--- A Homotopy Method for Motion Planning

Talk of Dr. Moritz Schulze Darup

05. February 2020 16:00

--- Secure Cloud-based Control - Early Implementations and new Concepts

Talk of Prof. Saša V. Raković

04. February 2020 16:00

--- Minkowski, Lyapunov, and Bellman: Inequalities and Equations for Stability and Optimal Control

Talk of Prof. Claudio De Persis

28. January 2020 14:00

--- Formulas for Data-driven Control: Stability, Optimality and Robustness

Talk of Dr. ir. Roland Toth

14. January 2020 16:00

--- Nonlinear Tracking and Rejection using Linear Parameter-Varying Control: Pitfalls and Solutions

Talk of Prof. Julien M. Hendrickx

07. January 2020 16:00

--- Title: Automatic Computation of Exact Worst-case Performance for First-order Optimization Methods

Talk of Steffen Linsenmayer

18. December 2019 16:00

--- Title: Networked Control with Deterministic Guarantees: Tailored Approaches Based on Implementable Communication Models

Lecture by Prof. Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

06. December 2019 14:00

--- Title: A Moving Switching Sequence Approach for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Switched Systems

Talk of Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour

19. November 2019 16:00

--- Title: Learning Nash Equilibria in Multi-Agent Games

Talk of Prof. Bahman Gharesifard

22. October 2019 16:00

--- Title: Sparse Bilinear Control Systems

Talk of Prof. Yoshio Ebihara

05. September 2019 14:00

-- Title: L1-induced norm analysis of positive systems and its application

Talk of Prof. Hajime Asama

09. August 2019 14:00

-- Title: Robot Technology for Services

Talk of Prof. Ali Mesbah

16. July 2019 16:00

-- Title: Real-time Control of Dose Delivery in Plasma Medicine

Talk of Prof. Abdol-Reza Mansouri

11. June 2019 16:00

--- Title: A variant of the Nash-Moser theorem

Talk of Prof. Jeremy Gunawardena

30. April 2019 16:00

--- Titel: Allostery and genetic information integration

Talk of Prof. Maria Prandini

16. April 2019 16:00

--- Titel: Distributed optimization over networks with application to energy systems

Talk of Prof. Nikolay Kuznetsov

07. February 2019 16:00

--- Title: Theory of Hidden Oscillations

Talk of Prof. Martin Fränzle

29. January 2019 16:00

--- Title: What's to come is still unsure: Synthesizing Controllers Resilient to Delayed Interaction

Talk of Wolfgang Halter

22. January 2019 16:00

--- Title: Synthetic Biology - On Control and Optimization Inside Cells

Talk of Prof. Thomas Schön

08. January 2019 16:00

--- Titel: Assembling Stochastic Quasi-Newton Algorithms Using Gaussian Processes

Talk of Prof. Sergey Dashkovskiy

27. November 2018 16:00

--- Title: Input-to-State Stability and Interconnected Systems

Talk of Prof. Wen-Hua Chen

22. November 2018 13:30

--- Title: Disturbance Observer Based Control and MPC

Talk of Prof. David Remy

20. November 2018 16:00

--- Title: Gaits and Natural Dynamics in Robotic Legged Locomotion

Talk of Prof. Emilia Fridman

24. August 2018 14:00

--- Title: A Time-Delay Approach to Sampled-data and Network-based Control

Talk of Prof. Shen Zeng

31. July 2018 11:00

--- Title: Data-Integrated Control Systems Analysis and Design Principles for Complex and Large-Scale Dynamical System

Talk of Prof. Arjan van der Schaft

29. May 2018 16:00

--- Title: Stabilization of Optimal Supply-Demand for Power Networks

Talk of Prof. Patrizio Colaneri

08. May 2018 16:00

--- Title: Analysis and Control of Positive Switched Systems: Theory and Applications

Talk of Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Lorenzen

04. May 2018 13:00

--- Title: On Finite Sample Approximations for Predictive Control under Uncertainty

Talk of Prof. Colin Jones

24. April 2018 14:30

--- Title: Optimal Synthesis of Fixed-Structure Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers

Talk of Prof. Simone Formentin

18. April 2018 13:00

--- Title: Direct Data-Driven Design of Linear Control Systems with Constraints

Talk of Prof. Shinji Hara

17. April 2018 16:00

--- Title: Hierarchically Decentralized Control Synthesis by Aggregation with Electric Vehicle Applications

Talk of Prof. Marco Campi

26. March 2018 17:00

--- Title: Scenario-Optimization: A General Approach for Data-Driven Control, Identification and Classification

Talk of Prof. Peter Seiler

20. March 2018 16:00

--- Title: Finite Horizon Robustness Analysis of LTV Systems Using Integral Quadratic Constraints

Talk of Prof. Girish Nair

13. March 2018 16:00

--- Title: A Randomised Approach to Set-Membership Filtering

Talk of Prof. Stephan Trenn

30. January 2018 16:00

--- Title: Switch Observability: A Novel Approach Towards Fault Detection

Talk of Prof. Sami Haddadin

05. December 2017 16:00

--- Title: Interaction Control and Monitoring in Robotics

Talk of Prof. Arjan van der Schaft - cancelled!

23. November 2017 16:00

--- Title: Stabilization of Optimal Supply-Demand for Power Networks

Talk of Prof. Stefan Schaal

21. November 2017 16:00

--- Title: Perception, Action, Learning, and Associative Skill Memories

Talk of Prof. Leonid Fridman

14. November 2017 16:00

--- Title: Sliding Mode Controllers: Stages of Evolution

Talk of Prof. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

07. November 2017 16:00

--- Title: Haptography: Capturing and Displaying Touch

Talk of Prof. Jie Chen

24. October 2017 16:00

--- Title: From Bode to Shannon: Fundamental Limitations and Limits of Feedback Revisited in an Information Age

Talk of Prof. Daniel Limón

25. April 2017 16:00

--- Title: Model Predictive Control for changing operating conditions

Talk of Dr. Ulrich Münz

15. September 2017 16:00

--- Title: Future Power System Control Functions: An Industry Perspective

Talk of Prof. Toru Namerikawa

15. September 2017 10:30

--- Title: Distributed and Optimal Dynamic Pricing in Electricity Market

Talk of Dr. Christoph Kawan

29. August 2017 16:00

--- Title: The Nonlinear Control Under Communication Constraints - Results and Challenges

Talk of Prof. Ali Belabbas

21. July 2017 14:00

--- Title: The Geometry of Optimal Sensor and Actuator Design for Finite-dimensional Linear System

Talk of Prof. Gabriele Pannocchia

27. June 2017 16:00

--- Title: The Offset-Free Control Design Principles: A Comprehensive Survey from Internal Model Control to Model Predictive Control Algorithms

Talk of Prof. Jay Farrell

25. April 2017 16:00

--- Title: Reliable Precise State Estimation for Autonomous Highway Vehicles

Talk of Prof. Pradeep Misra

20. June 2017 16:00

--- Title: Linearly Constrained Generalized Eigenvalue Problem

Talk of Prof. Elena Valcher

20. June 2017 13:30

--- Title: Consensus and Bipartite Consensus of High-Order Multi-Agent Systems with Switching Topologies

Talk of Dr. Joaquin Carresco Gomez

13. June 2017 16:00

--- Title: A Modern Conjecture on Classical Absolute Stability

Talk of Prof. Melanie Zeilinger

02. June 2017 14:00

--- Title: Towards Safe Learning in Control - Leveraging Online Data for Performance

Talk of Prof. Lucy Pao

09. May 2017 16:00

--- Title: Closed-Loop Active Power Control of Wind Farms

Talk of Prof. Sanjoy Mitter

25. April 2017 16:00

--- Title: Information and Entropy Flow in Stochastic Control

Talk of Prof. Luca Schenato

20. April 2017 16:00

--- Title: Multi-Agent Map-Building: Kalman Filtering Meets Machine Learning

Talk of Prof. Leonid Mirkin

11. April 2017 16:00

--- Title: On Minimum-Variance Event-Triggered Control

Talk of Prof. Pramod Khargonekar

08. February 2017 16:00

--- Title: Renewable Energy, Electric Grid Integration, and Game Theory

Talk of Prof. Pontus Giselsson

07. February 2017 16:00

--- Title: Long-Step First-Order Methods for Large-Scale Convex Optimization

Talk of Prof. Steffen Leonhardt

24. January 2017 16:00

--- Title: Closed-loop Systems in Medicine

Talk of Prof. Didier Henrion

17. January 2017 16:00

--- Title: Linear Conic Optimization for Nonlinear Optimal Control

Talk of Prof. Majid Zamani

10. January 2017 16:00

--- Title: Lyapunov and Shannon meet Church: Automated Synthesis of Controllers and Entropy

Talk of Prof. Hakan Hjalmarsson

06. December 2016 16:00

--- Title: Fundamentals of Data Driven Control Design

Talk of Prof. Dimos Dimarogonas

29. November 2016 16:00

--- Title: Some recent results on event- and self-triggered MPC for networked control systems

Talk of Dr. Ludovic Righetti

08. November 2016 16:00

--- Title: On the Importance of Contact Interactions for Robotic Locomotion and Manipulation

Talk of Prof. Valeri Ougrinovski

18. October 2016 16:00

--- Title: Controller-jammer game models of Denial of Service in control systems operating over packet-dropping links

Systems and Control Seminar: Talk of Raik Suttner, M.Sc.

27. September 2016 16:00

Talk of Dr. Moritz Schulze Darup

08. September 2016 16:00

--- Title: Some News on Linear Constrained Systems

Systems and Control Seminar: Talk of Yuning Jiang, PhD

31. August 2016 12:00

Talk of Prof. Jürgen Pannek

30. August 2016 16:30

--- Title: Model Predictive Control as Enabler for (Inter-)Industrial Applications

Talk of Prof. Boris Houska

30. August 2016 15:30

--- Title: Self-reflective model predictive control

Talk of Prof. Bahman Gharesifard

28. June 2016 16:00

--- Title: Asymptotic Stability of Saddle-Point Dynamical Systems and Applications to Distributed Optimization

Talk of Dipl.-Ing. Jingbo Wu

14. June 2016 16:00

--- Title: How do Synchronization and Coordination benefit from Distributed Estimation?

Talk of Prof. Kristin Y. Pettersen

07. June 2016 16:00

--- Title: Snake Robots - A robotic solution for firefighting, search and rescue, and subsea IMR operations

Talk of Prof. Paolo Rapisarda

31. May 2016 16:00

--- Title: From Data to State Model via Duality

Talk of Prof. Dimitri Peaucelle

10. May 2016 16:00

--- Title: Robust Observed-State Feedback Design for Discrete-Time Systems Rational in the Uncertainties

Talk of Prof. Karl Worthmann

03. May 2016 16:00

--- Title: Distributed Optimization within Model Predictive Control of Smart Grids

Talk of Prof. Frank Allgöwer at the "Stuttgart Samstags-Uni"

05. March 2016 13:00

Title of German talk: Autonome Fahrzeuge, intelligente Stromnetze und Industrie 4.0: Auf dem Weg zu einer Kybernetik des 21. Jahrhunderts

Talk of Prof. Dimos Dimarogonas

14. January 2016 16:00

--- Title: Distributed hybrid control of multi-agent systems under high level specifications

Talk of Dr. Kim Listmann

12. January 2016 14:00

--- Title: Industrie 4.0 - Control Systems Research goes Needless?

Talk of Dipl.-Ing. Georg Seyboth

08. December 2015 16:00

--- Title: On Distributed and Cooperative Control Design for Networks of Dynamical Systems

Talk of Prof. Sahin Albayrak

03. December 2015 15:00

--- Title: Service-oriented software development in automotive environments – The „Service Centric Car“

Talk of Prof. Natalia Dmitruk

24. November 2015 16:00

--- Title: Robust Distributed Feedbacks in Optimal Control Problems

Talk of Prof. Ian K. Craig

10. November 2015 16:00

--- Title: Towards lights-out process control

Talk of Prof. Lenka Pavelková

03. November 2015 16:00

--- Title: Bayesian estimation of models with bounded uncertainty

Talk of Prof. Mihai Putinar

20. October 2015 16:00

--- Title: Matrix positivity preservers in fixed dimension

Talk of Prof. Elisa Franco

08. September 2015 16:00

--- Title: Programming circuits and materials with nucleic acids

Talk of Prof. Remco Leine

07. July 2015 16:00

-- Title: Variational Analysis and Synchronization of Unilaterally Constrained Multibody Systems

Talk of Prof. John S. Baras

16. June 2015 16:00

-- Title: Distributed Learning for Collaborative Inference and Decision Making in Multi-Agent Systems

Talk of Dr. Corentin Briat

09. June 2015 16:00

-- Title: Analysis and Control of LPV Systems using Hybrid Systems Methods

Talk of Prof. Lucy Y. Pao

02. June 2015 11:00

-- Title: Controlling Wind Energy for Utility Grid Reliability: Demonstrated Capabilities and Continuing Challenges

Talk of Prof. Lorenzo Marconi

19. May 2015 16:00

-- Title: Isolating Invisible Dynamics in the Design of Robust Hybrid Internal Models

Talk of Prof. Daniel Quevedo

12. May 2015 16:00

-- Title: An Intuitive Algorithm for Control with Limited Communication and Processing Resources

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