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• Real-Time Optimization and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) within a DFG research cluster Optimization Based Control of Chemical Processes
  • Online Optimization and NMPC of distillation columns and experimental tests (with F. Allgöwer, I. Uslu, R. Findeisen and S. Schwarzkopf, Stuttgart University)
  • Moving Horizon State Estimation (with L. Wirsching)
  • Periodic Control of Chromatographic Separation Processes (with A. Toumi, A. Küpper, S. Engell, Dortmund)
• Robust Dynamic Programming and Robust Model Predictive Control (with J. Björnberg). Homepage of the software package rdp .
• Nonlinear Optimization and Control
  • Large scale inequality constrained optimization (with H.G. Bock, E. Kostina, J.P.Schlöder)
  • optimization of batch distillation processes (with Daniel Leineweber)
  • Kite modelling and feedback control, see the Kite Homepage and the Visualization by Gerrit Schultz.
    
  • parallel algorithms for fast optimal control (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, A. Sharma, A. Schäfer, and Phan Thanh An)
  • optimal feedback control of robots (with Jie Zhao and Richard Longman from Columbia University).
• Optimization and Parameter Estimation in Image Processing (with H. Scharr and R. Küsters, and with Pau Montes: Diploma-Thesis Offer)
• Associated Postdoc Member of the "Graduiertenkolleg" Complex Processes: Modelling, Simulation and Optimization
• Support of the Optimal Control Software Package MUSCOD-II together with Andreas Schäfer and Ulrich Brandt-Pollmann
• Ex-Member of the DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm "Echtzeit-Optimierung grosser Systeme"
• Ex-Editor (1997-2001) of the Industrial Mathematics Newsletter IM-Net
• Reviewer for "Automatica", "Automatisierungstechnik", "Computational Optimization and Applications", "Computers and Chemical Engineering", "Optimization and Engineering", "Journal of Process Control"

• Summer 2006:
  • Lecture "Modern Convex Optimization"
  • Study Group "Modellierung und Regelung von Flugdrachen"
  • Software practicals for beginners and for advanced programmers
• Winter 2005/2006:
  • Seminar "Optimierung und Parameterschätzung bei dynamischen Systemen"
  • Software practicals for beginners and for advanced programmers
• Summer 2005:
  • Lecture "Numerical Mathematics II: Optimization with ordinary differential equations"
  • Seminar/Practical "Optimization of Dynamical Systems in Molecular Biotechnology II"
• Winter 2004/2005:
  • Lecture "Algorithmic Optimization I"
  • Seminar "Newton Methods"
  • Seminar/Practical "Optimization of Dynamical Systems in Molecular Biotechnology"
• Summer 2004:
  • Seminar "Optimization with Partial Differential Equations"
  • Seminar "Optimization in Molecular Biotechnology"
• Winter 2003:
  • Lecture "Algorithmic Optimization I"
  • Seminar "Convex Optimization"
  • Practical "Modelling, Simulation and Optimization in Molecular Biotechnology"
• Summer 2003:
  • Lecture "Mathematik B für die molekulare Biotechnologie", 4 hours a week, and organisation of exercises, (Script in German)
• Winter 2002/2003:
  • Lecture "Mathematik A für die molekulare Biotechnologie", 4 hours a week, and organisation of exercises,
  • Seminar "Modern methods for feedback control"
• Summer 2002:
  • Lecture "Introduction into Numerical Mathematics" , 4 hours a week, and organisation of exercises,

French-German-Czech Conference on Optimization, 17-21 September 2007 (with H.G. Bock, G. Reinelt)

• September 7-9, 2005, Heidelberg: Ruperto-Carola-Symposium "Fast Motions in Biomechanics and Robotics - Optimization and Feedback Control" (with Katja Mombaur). Funded by the Klaus-Georg and Sigrid Hengstberger Prize, participation on invitation only (University press release from 23.10.2004)
• Minisymposium "Real-Time Optimization and Feedback Control" at SIAM Conference on Optimization, Stockholm, May 18, 2005, Stockholm (with L. Biegler)
• April 15 and 16, 2005, Warsaw: GK-Workshop "Modelling, Simulation and Control in Chemical Engineering" (with Leon Gradon, Hans Georg Bock, Peter Kühl)
• "Workshop on State Estimation", Heidelberg, April 7-8, 2005 (with Luise Blank)
• Industry Workshop "Dynamic Process Optimization. A Tutorial Course on Nonlinear Optimization and Optimal Control", Ladenburg, October 7-8, 2004 (with Ulrich Brandt-Pollmann, Katja Mombaur, Peter Riede, and Sebastian Sager, H.G. Bock, J.P. Schlöder)
• Minisymposium "Optimale Steuerung und Regelung komplexer Systeme", September 16, 2004, at DMV Jahrestagung, Heidelberg.
• One day mini course "Introduction to and Current Issues in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control" (with R. Findeisen, F. Allgöwer, L. Magni, Z. Nagy), on August, 31, 2004. .
• Minisymposia "Optimal Control and Applications I, II, III" at Optimization 2004, Lissabon (July, 2004).
• Minisymposium "Nonlinear Model Predictive Control" at ECMI 2004, Eindhoven (June 21, 2004).
• "Parameter Estimation and Optimum Experimental Design", January 14, 2004 (with K. Mombaur, U. Brandt-Pollmann, H.G. Bock, J. Schlöder, A. Schäfer, C. Kraus, S. Körkel, E. Kostina)
• Optimization Course (Oct 2002, with U. Brandt-Pollmann, C. Kraus, S. Sager)
• Lecture: "Tailored Real-Time Optimization Algorithms" within tutorial course "Computational efficiency in linear and non-linear predictive control" (organized by F. Allgöwer, J. A. Rossiter) at 15th IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain. (July 20, 2002)
• "Tutorial Course on Dynamic Optimization", Department of Informatics and System Science, Univ. of Pavia, Italy. (Oct 1-2, 2002)
• Optimization Workshop (Feb 7, 2001, with S. Körkel, W. Bangerth, T. Stossmeister)

1. M. Diehl, F. Jarre, and C. Vogelbusch: Loss of Superlinear Convergence for an SQP-type method with Conic Constraints. SIAM Journal on Optimization (in print) (please contact one of the authors for a PDF version of the article) (Bibtex-entry)
   
   
2. M. Diehl, H.G. Bock, and E. Kostina: An approximation technique for robust nonlinear optimization. Mathematical Programming Series B (please contact the first author for a PDF version of the article, or download a preprint as PS- or PDF- File). (Bibtex-entry)
   
   
3. M. Diehl and J. Björnberg: Robust Dynamic Programming for Min-Max Model Predictive Control of Constrained Uncertain Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 49, No 12, pp. 2253-2257. December 2004. Preprint as PS- or PDF- File). (Bibtex-entry) . Link to the software package rdp .
   
   
4. M. Diehl, H.G. Bock, and J.P. Schlöder: A Real-Time Iteration Scheme for Nonlinear Optimization in Optimal Feedback Control. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol 43, No 5, pp. 1714-1736, 2005 (please contact the first author for a PDF version of the article, or download a preprint as PS- or PDF- File). (Bibtex-entry)
   
   
5. M. Diehl, L. Magni, G. De Nicolao: Online NMPC of unstable periodic systems using approximate infinite horizon closed loop costing. Annual Reviews in Control, Vol 28, No 1, pp. 37-45, 2004. (Preprint as PS- or PDF- File). (Bibtex-entry)
   
   
6. M. Diehl, R. Findeisen, H.G. Bock, J.P. Schlöder, and F. Allgöwer. Nominal stability of the real-time iteration scheme for nonlinear model predictive control. IEE Control Theory Appl., vol. 152, No. 3, pp. 296-308 (2005). (Preprint as PS- or PDF- File). (Bibtex-entry)
   
   
7. Jakob Björnberg and Moritz Diehl. Approximate robust dynamic programming and robustly stable MPC. Technical report 2004-41 of SFB 359, IWR Heidelberg, 2004. ( BibTeX entry)
   
   
8. M. Diehl und T. Fischer: Skript zur Mathematik für die molekulare Biotechnologie .
   
   
9. M.Diehl, R. Findeisen, S. Schwarzkopf, I. Uslu, F. Allgöwer, H. G. Bock, E. D. Gilles, and J. P. Schlöder: An efficient algorithm for nonlinear model predictive control of large-scale systems. Part I: Description of the method. Automatisierungstechnik, Vol 50, No 12, 2002. (Bibtex-entry)
   Part II: Application to a Distillation Column. Automatisierungstechnik, Vol 51, No 1, 2003. (Bibtex-entry)
   slightly different as IWR-Preprint 2002-11: [PS File (zipped)] [PDF File ]
   
   
10. M. Diehl, I. Uslu, S. Schwarzkopf, F. Allgöwer, H.G. Bock, R. Findeisen, E.D. Gilles, A. Kienle, J.P. Schlöder, and E. Stein: Real-Time Optimization for Large Scale Processes: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a High Purity Distillation Column In Groetschel, Krumke, Rambau (eds.): Online Optimization of Large Scale Systems: State of the Art, Springer, 2001 (Preprint as PS-File). (Bibtex-entry)
    
    
11. T. Binder, L. Blank, H.G. Bock, R. Bulirsch, W. Dahmen, M. Diehl, T. Kronseder, W.Marquardt and J.P. Schlöder, and O. v.Stryk: Introduction to Model Based Optimization of Chemical Processes on Moving Horizons In Groetschel, Krumke, Rambau (eds.): Online Optimization of Large Scale Systems: State of the Art, Springer, 2001 (Preprint as PS-File). (Bibtex-entry)
    
    
12. M. Diehl, H.G. Bock, J.P. Schlöder, R. Findeisen, Z. Nagy, and F. Allgöwer: Real-time optimization and nonlinear model predictive control of processes governed by differential-algebraic equations . Journal of Process Control Vol. 12, pp. 577-585, 2002. (Bibtex-entry)
    
    
13. M. Diehl, D. B. Leineweber, A. Schäfer, J.P. Schlöder, and H.G. Bock: Optimization of Multiple-Fraction Batch Distillation with Recycled Waste Cuts. AIChE Journal, Vol 48, No 12, pp. 2869-2874, 2002. (Bibtex-entry)
    
    
14. M. Diehl: Real-Time Optimization for Large Scale Nonlinear Processes . PhD Thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2001. (Bibtex-entry)
    
    
15. H.G. Bock, M. Diehl, D.B. Leineweber and J.P. Schlöder: A direct multiple shooting method for real-time optimization of nonlinear DAE processes . In "Nonlinear Predictive Control" by F. Allgöwer and A. Zheng, Series "Progress in Systems Theory", Vol. 26, pp. 246--267, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000. (Bibtex-entry)
    
    
16. M. Diehl: A direct multiple shooting method for the optimization and control of chemical processes . Diploma Thesis, University of Heidelberg, 1998.
    
    

• Simulation and Optimization Team, IWR, Heidelberg
• DFG research cluster "Optimization Based Control of Chemical Processes"
• Lego Mindstorms Project of Florian Beutler
• Robust Dynamic Programming Package rdp Homepage.
• Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering, Stuttgart
• Institut für Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik, Stuttgart
• Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling , Warsaw University
• Chair of Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen
• Process Control Laboratory, University of Dortmund
• G. Wozny, Fachgebiet Dynamik und Betrieb technischer Anlagen, TU-Berlin
• Larry Biegler, Chemical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
• James B. Rawlings, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg
• Rami Tzafriri, Computer Science Department and Otto Loewi center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Leibniz-Center for Research in Computer Science, Jerusalem
• IM-Net - Industrial Mathematics Net
• DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm "Echtzeit-Optimierung grosser Systeme"
• The Fabulous Highschool Boppers
• IHP - Institute for Semiconductor Physics, Frankfurt/Oder