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Tobias Schweickhardt

2001 Dipl.-Ing. (kyb), Universität Stuttgart
2001 Diplôme de l'Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris (ECP)
2001-2006 Scientific Assistant at the IST
2006 Dr.-Ing. (kyb), Universität Stuttgart

Research interests

  • Nonlinearity measures
  • Nonlinear control
  • Optimal control
  • Optimization

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

[1]  T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. A robustness approach to linear control of mildly nonlinear processes. Int. J. Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2007. In press.

[2]  T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. Linear control of nonlinear systems based on nonlinearity measures. J. Proc. Contr., 17(3):273-284, 2007.

[3] N. Hernjak, F.J. Doyle III, F. Allgöwer, and T. Schweickhardt. Relationship between control-relevant nonlinearity and performance objective for scalar Hammerstein and Wiener systems. Chem. Eng. Prog., 2005. accepted.

[4] T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. Quantitative nonlinearity assessment -- An introduction to nonlinearity measures. In M. Georgiadis and P. Seferlis, editors, The Integration of Design and Control, Computer-aided chemical engineering, pages 76-95. Elsevier Science, 2004.

[5] P. Schumm, T. Schweickhardt, E. Bullinger, and F. Allgöwer. Integration und Interaktion: Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Notebook und Internet in der regelungstechnischen Ausbildung. at-Automatisierungstechnik, 2(2):81-89, 2004.

Proceedings

[1]  T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. An approach to linear control of nonlinear processes. In 16th European Symp. on Comp. Aided Proc. Eng. (ESCAPE-16) and 9th Int. Symp. on Proc. Sys. Eng. (PSE), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. July, 2006.

[2]  T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. Good or bad -- when is plant nonlinearity an obstacle for control?. In IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), volume 1, pages 37-44. Gramado, Brasil, April, 2006.

[3]  M. Journée, T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. Comparative assessment of old and new suboptimal control schemes on three example processes. In Proc. 13th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimisation, pages 189-194. Paris-Cachan, April 2006.

[1] T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. Linear modeling error and steady-state behaviour of nonlinear dynamical systems. In Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. Decision Contr., pages 8150-8155, Seville, Spain, December 2005.

[2] Y. Shastri, T. Schweickhardt, and F. Allgöwer. Plant and control-relevant nonlinearity analysis of a CSTR: a case study. In 7th Int. Symp. on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS), 2004. Paper #123.

[3] N. Hernjak, F.J. Doyle III, F. Allgöwer, and T. Schweickhardt. Relationship between control-relevant nonlinearity and performance objective. In IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), pages 543-548, 2003.

[4] T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. How nonlinear is nonlinear? An approach to nonlinearity quantification. In M. van de Wal, editor, Proceedings of the 7th Philips Conference on Applications of Control Technology (PACT'03), pages 1-14, 2003.

[5] T. Schweickhardt, F. Allgöwer, and F. J. Doyle III. Nonlinearity quantification for the optimal state feedback controller. In European Control Conference (ECC), Cambridge, U.K., September 2003. Paper #056.

[6] T. Schweickhardt, F. Allgöwer, and F. J. Doyle III. The optimal control law nonlinearity measure: Improving control-relevant nonlinearity assessment. In AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003. Paper CAST 10B02-440C.

[7] P. Schumm, T. Schweickhardt, E. Bullinger, and F. Allgöwer. Der Einsatz neuer Medien in der regelungstechnischen Ausbildung. In GMA-Kongress 2003, pages 1061-1068. GMA, 2003.

Theses

[1]  T. Schweickhardt. Nonlinearity Assessment and Linear Control of Nonlinear Systems. Ph.D. thesis, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, 2006. .

[2] T. Schweickhardt. Nichtlineare Regelung eines hydropneumatischen Fahrwerks mit schnell verstellbarer Dämpfung. Diplomarbeit, Institut A für Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2001.

[3] T. Schweickhardt. Synthese von Ersatzschaltkreisen mit genetischen Algorithmen. Studienarbeit, Institut für Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2000.

[4] T. Schweickhardt. Application des algorithmes génétiques à la synthèse des circuits équivalents. Rapport de projet, Ecole Centrale Paris, France, 1999.

Other/Internal Reports

[1] T. Schweickhardt and F. Allgöwer. Trajectory-based approximate optimal controller synthesis. Technical report, Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2004.

Talks

[1] T. Schweickhardt. Bewertung der Nichtlinearität bei Regelungsproblemen. 1. Stuttgarter Systemtheorie-Workshop, Hirschegg, Österreich, März 2003.

[2] T. Schweickhardt. How much nonlinearity is too much nonlinearity? SFB412 Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Design in Process Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany, February 2003.

[3] T. Schweickhardt. Nonlinearity quantification for the optimal state feedback controller. Regular talk at the European Control Conference 2003, Cambridge, U.K., September 2003.

[4] T. Schweickhardt. Einführung in Nichtlinearitätsmaße: Definitionen, Berechnung und Anwendungen. Presentation bei der BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Dezember 2002.

[5] T. Schweickhardt. Nichtlineare Regelung eines hydropneumatischen Fahrwerks mit schnell verstellbarer Dämpfung. Diplomarbeitsvortrag, Institut A für Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2001.

[6] T. Schweickhardt. Synthese von Ersatzschaltkreisen mit genetischen Algorithmen. Studienarbeitsvortrag, Institut für Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2000.

[7] T. Schweickhardt. Application des algorithmes génétiques à la synthèse des circuits équivalents. Presentation de projet, Ecole Centrale Paris, France, 1999.

Teaching

Lecturer

  • Regelungstechnik 1 (WS03/04)

Teaching assistances

  • Regelungstechnik 1 (WS01/02, WS02/03, WS04/05)
  • Online-Übungen in "Regelungstechnik 1" (seit WS01/02)
  • Regelungstechnik 2 (SS02, SS03, SS04)
  • Regelungstechnik 2 Praktikum, Versuch "Regelung eines Helikoptermodells" (seit WS03/04)
  • Proseminar Technische Kybernetik (SS02, SS03, SS04)
  • Hauptseminar Technische Kybernetik (SS02, SS04)

Thesis supervisions

[1] Nonlinearity measures of the optimal state feedback controller, Master thesis, April 2003.
[2] Modellierung, Reglerentwurf und Inbetriebnahme eines Helikoptermodells, Student thesis, Juni 2004.
[3] Implementation and comparative study of different approaches to approximate optimal feedback control for nonlinear systems, Diploma thesis, August 2005.
[4] Erstellung einer Online-Übung zur Hoo-Reglersynthese, Student thesis, August 2005.
[5]Nichtlineare Modellierung eines Helikoptermodells, Student thesis, 2006.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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