Control Applications – Institute of Automatic Control

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Current research activities in the field of biomedical engineering cover the following topics:

Modeling, analysis, and control of the human hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis
Temperature control for retinal laser therapy
Human motor control and rehabilitation engineering

ROBOTICS

Control theory is one of the central methods required for modern robotics, which therefore represents one of the main control applications at our institute. Current research topics are

Teleoperation of collaborative robots
Realtime path planning with guaranteed collision avoidance

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Becker, Marvin; Lilge, Torsten, Müller, Matthias A. & Haddadin, Sami (2021): Circular Fields and Predictive Multi-Agents for Online Global Trajectory Planning, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021, 6, 2618-2625
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3061997
Kleyman, V. and Gernandt, H. and Worthmann, K. and Abbas, Hossam S. and Brinkmann, R. and Müller, M. (2020): Modeling and parameter identification for real-time temperature controlled retinal laser therapies, at - Automatisierungstechnik, 2020, 68, 953 - 966
DOI: 10.1515/auto-2020-0074
Haddadin, Sami; Johannsmeier, Lars; Schmid, Johannes; Ende, Tobias; Parusel, Sven; Haddadin, Simon; Schappler, Moritz; Lilge, Torsten & Becker, Marvin (2019): Roboterfabrik: A Pilot to Link and Unify German Robotics Education to Match Industrial and Societal Demands, Robotics in Education - Results of the 9th International Conference on Robotics in Education (Rie 2018), pp. 3-17
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_1
Berberich, J.; Dietrich, J. W.; Hoermann, R. & Müller, M. A. (2018): Mathematical modeling of the pituitary-thyroid feedback loop: role of a TSH-T3-shunt and sensitivity analysis, Frontiers in Endocrinology, vol. 9, pp. 91.
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00091
Wiedemann, L. G.; Jayaneththi, V. R.; Kimpton, J.; Chan, A.; Müller, M. A.; Hogan, A.; Lim, E.; Wilson, N. C. & McDaid, A. J. (2018): Neuromuscular characterisation in Cerebral Palsy using hybrid Hill-type models on isometric contractions, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 103, pp. 269-276.
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.10.027
Köhler, J.; Müller, M. A.; Li, Na & Allgöwer, F. (2017): Real Time Economic Dispatch for power networks: A Distributed Economic Model Predictive Control Approach, Proc. 56th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pp. 6340-6345.
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264615

SELECTED PROJECTS

Temperature controlled retinal laser treatment

Leaders: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Müller

Team: Viktoria Kleyman

Year: 2020

Sponsors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 430154635

Lifespan: 2020 - 2021
roboterfabrik

Leaders: Matthias Müller, Mark Wielitzka, Torsten Lilge

Team: Marvin Becker, Vincent Modes

Year: 2021

Sponsors: Region Hannover

Lifespan: 2021-2022