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Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
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Courses

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control - Theory and Applications

News

11.10.2021: Enrollment via LSF is now possible.

Organization

Credits: 10 ECTS
Term: Winter 21/22

Lecture & Exercise

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timm Faulwasser
Assistant: Ruchuan Ou
Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays 08:00 - 12:00
Room: TBD + Online
Starting: 15.10.2021
Language: English

Examination: Take-home project and oral exam
Enrollment: Please sign up for the course on LSF.  You will then be enrolled in Moodle automatically.
Office hours: On demand

Majors and Module Numbers:
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology: Module 3-39
M.Sc. Automation and Robotics: Module AR-318
 

Content

  • Optimality conditions for static optimization problems
  • Basics of Optimal Control Theory and the Pontryagin Maximum Principle
  • Formulation of Optimal Control Problems
  • Primer on numerical solution methods (shooting methods and collocation)
  • Principle of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
  • Sufficient stability conditions with and without terminal constraints
  • Implementation aspects of NMPC
  • Economic MPC
  • Research outlook: NMPC for energy systems

The course will involve pen and paper exercises as well as programming exercises in Matlab. Furthermore, there will be a take-home project which is a prerequisite for taking the oral exam. The guidelines for the take-home project are:

  • Students hand in a project report of 10 to maximum 20 pages
  • The project is presented concisely
  • The project involves problem formulation and solution
  • The lecturer and teaching assistant are available for questions

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Location & approach

The campus of TU Dort­mund University is located close to interstate junction Dort­mund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dort­mund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dort­mund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Campus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dort­mund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Campus Nord). Signs for the uni­ver­si­ty are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dort­mund.

To get from Campus Nord to Campus Süd by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Campus Nord and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.

TU Dort­mund University has its own train station ("Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dort­mund main station ("Dort­mund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 20 or 30 minutes). The uni­ver­si­ty is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.

You can also take the bus or subway train from Dort­mund city to the uni­ver­si­ty: From Dort­mund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station "Stadtgarten", usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At "Stadtgarten" you switch trains and get on line U42 towards "Hombruch". Look out for the Station "An der Palmweide". From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dort­mund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dort­mund main station to the stop "Dort­mund Kampstraße". From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop "Dort­mund Wittener Straße". Switch to bus line 447 and get off at "Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S".

The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dort­mund Airport (DTM) to Dort­mund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dort­mund Central Station, you can continue to the uni­ver­si­ty campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of in­ter­na­tio­nal flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the uni­ver­si­ty station.

The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dort­mund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the uni­ver­si­ty directly with the city of Dort­mund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.

The facilities of TU Dort­mund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the uni­ver­si­ty are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".

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