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  Mathias Bürger

Mathias Bürger
Research Assistant


Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
University of Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 9
70550 Stuttgart

Office:  Room 3.233
Phone: +49 711 685 663 15
Fax:      +49 711 685 677 35
Email:   mathias.buerger@ist.uni-stuttgart.de
Research Interests

 

Journal Publications


M. Bürger, D. Zelazo, and F. Allgöwer.
Duality and Network Theory in Passivity-based Cooperative Control.
Submitted to Automatica , January 2013.
Preprint online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3676.

M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, and F. Allgöwer.
A Polyhedral Approximation Framework for Convex and Robust Distributed Optimization.
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, June 2012.
Preprint online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6092.


D. Zelazo, M. Bürger, and F. Allgöwer.
A Finite-Time Dual Method for Negotiation between Dynamical Systems.
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 172-194, 2013. [Draft]


M. Bürger, D. Zelazo, and F. Allgöwer.
Hierarchical Clustering of Dynamical Networks Using a Saddle-Point Analysis.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 58, No.1, pp. 113 - 124, 2013.


M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, F. Bullo, and F. Allgöwer.
A Distributed Simplex Algorithm for Degenerate Linear Programs and Multi-Agent Assignments.
Automatica, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 2298-2304, Sep. 2012.


M. Bürger, and M. Guay.
Robust Constraint Satisfaction for Continuous-time Nonlinear Systems in Strict Feedback Form.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 2597 - 2601, Nov. 2010.


 

Book Chapters


D. Zelazo, M. Bürger, and F. Allgöwer.
Dynamic Negotiations Under Switching Communication.
in Mathematical Systems Theory - Festschrift in Honor of Uwe Helmke on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, pp. 479-500, K. Hüper and J. Trumpf, Eds., CreateSpace, 2013, (link).


M. Bürger and F. Allgöwer.
Optimization methods for cluster synchronization analysis.
in Control Theory of Digitally Networked Systems, J. Lunze, Ed., Springer, Heidelberg, 2013.


 

Conference Publications (Peer Reviewed)


M. Lorenzen, M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, and F. Allgöwer.
A Distributed Solution to the Adjustable Robust Economic Dispatch Problem.
Submitted to IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control, 2013.
Preprint online: http://www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de/publikationen/prints.php?ID=753.

M. Bürger and C. De Persis.
Internal models for nonlinear output agreement and optimal flow control.
Submitted to IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), 2013.
Preprint online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0780.

M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, and F. Allgöwer.
From Non-cooperative to Cooperative Distributed MPC: A Simplicial Approximation Perspective.
Accepted for European Control Conference, 2013.


F. Bayer, M. Bürger, and F. Allgöwer.
Discrete-time Incremental ISS: A Framework for Robust NMPC.
Accepted for European Control Conference, 2013.


M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, and F. Allgöwer.
Distributed Robust Optimization via Cutting-Plane Consensus.
Proc. of 51st IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Maui, Hi, USA, pages 7457-7463, 2012 (PDF).


B. Carabelli, A. Benzing, F. Dürr, B. Koldehofe, K. Rothermel, G. Seyboth, R. Blind, M. Bürger, and F. Allgöwer.
Exact Convex Formulations of Network-Oriented Optimal Operator Placement.
Proc. of 51st IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Maui, Hi, USA, pages 3777-3782, 2012 (PDF).


M. Bürger, D. Zelazo, and F. Allgöwer.
Combinatorial Insights and Robustness Analysis for Clustering in Dynamical Networks.
Proc. of American Control Conference, Montreal, pages 454-459, 2012, (link).


M. Guay and M. Bürger.
Adaptive Control of State Constrained Nonlinear Systems in Strict Feedback Form.
Proc. of American Control Conference, Montreal, pages 1143-1779, 2012.


M. Bürger, D. Zelazo, and F. Allgöwer.
Network Clustering: A Dynamical Systems and Saddle-Point Perspective.
Proc. of 50th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control / European Control Conf., Orlando, pages 7825-7830, 2011, (link).


M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, and F. Allgöwer.
Locally Constrained Decision Making via Two-Stage Distributed Simplex.
Proc. of 50th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control / European Control Conf., Orlando, pages 5911-5916, 2011, (link).


B. Briegel, D. Zelazo, M. Bürger, and F. Allgöwer.
On the Zeros of Consensus Networks.
Proc. of 50th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control / European Control Conf., Orlando, 2011.


D. Zelazo, M. Bürger, and F. Allgöwer.
A Distributed Real-time Algorithm for Preference-based Agreement.
Proc. of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, pages 8933-8938, 2011.


F. Bayer, M. Bürger, M. Guay, and F. Allgöwer.
On State-constrained Control of a CSTR.
Proc. of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, pages 6079-6084, 2011.


M. Bürger, G. Notarstefano, F. Allgöwer, and F. Bullo.
A Distributed Simplex Algorithm and the Multi-agent Assignment Problem.
Proc. of American Control Conference, San Francisco, USA, pages 2639 - 2644, 2011.


M. Bürger, G.S. Schmidt, and F. Allgöwer
Preference Based Group Agreement in Cooperative Control.
Proc. of 8th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), Bologna, Italy, pages 149 - 154, 2010.


M. Bürger, and M. Guay.
A Backstepping Approach to Robust Constraint Satisfaction With Application to a VTOL Helicopter.
In Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, pages 5230-5244, 2009.


M. Bürger and M. Guay.
Robust Constraint Satisfaction for Continuous-time Nonlinear Systems.
In Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, pages 7-12, 2008.


M. Bürger, T. Raff, C. Ebenbauer, and F. Allgöwer.
Extensions On a Certainty-equivalence Feedback Design With a Class of Feedbacks Which Guarantee ISS.
In Proc. of the American Control Conference, Seattle, USA, pages 383-388, 2008.



Invited Talks and Poster Presentations


Robust Constraint Satisfaction for Continuous-Time Nonlinear Systems.
Applied Statistics, Control and Optimization Meeting.
Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, May 21, 2008.


Distributed Linear Programming and the Multi-Agent Assignment.
Priority Program 1305: Workshop.
Technical University Munich, June 27, 2010.


Entwurf von kooperativen, digital vernetzten Regelungen für konkurrierende Systeme.
Priority Program 1305: Opening Workshop (with R. Blind).
Ruhr University, Bochum, February 2011.


A Finite-Time Dual Method for Negotiation Between Dynamical Systems.
International Conference on Simulation Technology.
University of Stuttgart, June 14-17, 2011.


Network Clustering: A Dynamical Systems and Saddle-Point Perspective.
The 2011 Santa Barbara Control Workshop: Decision Dynamics and Control in Multi-Agent Systems.
University of California at Santa Barbara, June 24, 2011.


Network Clustering: A Dynamical Systems and Saddle-Point Perspective.
Vistas in Control.
University of California at Santa Barbara, November 15, 2011.


Coordination-free Optimization and Dynamic Negotiation in Peer-to-Peer Systems.
Algorithms and Dynamics over Networks.
Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Politechnico di Torino, February, 8-9, 2012.


Hierarchical Clustering of Dynamical Networks Using a Saddle-Point Analysis.
Control Theory: Mathematial Perspectives on Complex Networked Systems.
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, February 26 - March 3, 2012.


Hierarchical Clustering of Dynamical Networks Using a Saddle-Point Analysis.
Systems Theory Seminar.
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, September, 2012.


Coordination-free Optimization and Dynamic Negotiation in Peer-to-Peer Systems.
5th SimTech Status Seminar: Project presentation PN-6,
Cluster of Excellence SimTech, Bad Boll, December 5-7, 2012.


Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

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