Kiel University – Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (EE&IT)

Chair of Automatic Control

The InProReg project is a unique opportunity to jointly address the challenges and chances for small and medium sized enterprises that arise from the ongoing digitalisation and integration in production lines and manufacturing processes. The rapidly increasing volumes of data collected from numerous sensors embedded into the processes require efficient techniques to extract online relevant information. This information is fed back into the plant and results in a complex feedback loop. By making use of model and data driven techniques from automatic control we aim to address and design the properties of this closed-loop (feedback) control system to ensure stable and optimal operation under different conditions.
– Prof. Thomas Meurer

The Chair of Automatic Control is part of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Faculty of Engineering at the Kiel University. At the Chair we focus on the development and the application of state-of-the-art techniques for modelling, analysis, control, and optimisation of complex dynamic systems. Our main research areas comprise the control and the observer design as well as the real-time optimisation of non-linear, networked and distributed parameter systems. We apply and evaluate the developed methods and concepts in different application domains addressing production engineering, mechatronics and robotics, process and chemical engineering, life science, automotive engineering and cooperative interacting systems. This expertise enables us to apply the most recent knowledge and advanced methods to solve practical challenges jointly with our partners from academia and industry.

In addition to research, we are involved in the education of our bachelor and master students. Our teaching activities cover different aspects of automatic control, state estimation, mathematical modelling and analysis. Starting with the foundations for linear systems during the bachelor studies, our focus is on non-linear control, optimal control and distributed parameter systems in our master courses. This is accompanied by courses on the modelling of physical processes and applied non-linear dynamics. Theoretical aspects are applied and evaluated by our students in different laboratories.

Co-workers in the project

Contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Meurer

Full Professor for Automatic Control
Chair of Automatic Control
Faculty of Engineering
Kiel University
Kaiserstraße 2
24143 Kiel
Germany

Phone +49 431 880 6275
tm@tf.uni-kiel.de