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Kevin Schmidt

Dr.-Ing.

Research Assistant
Institute for System Dynamics

Contact

Deutschland

Office Hours

by arrangement

Subject

Feedforward and feedback control design for distributed parameter systems

  • thermomechanically actuated deformable mirrors
  • tracking control for age-structured bio reactors
  • transport systems with spatially-distributed control

Optomechatronics: beam forming and compensation of disturbances for adaptive laser resonators

Journal Papers
  • K. Schmidt, S. Piehler, B. Dannecker, T. Dietrich, A. Raisch, T. Graf, M. A. Ahmed & O. Sawodny, “Design of intra-cavity deformable mirrors for high-power lasers”, tm - Technisches Messen, 2019.
  • K. Schmidt, I. Karafyllis & M. Krstic, “Yield trajectory tracking for hyperbolic age-structured population systems”, Automatica, 90, pp. 138-146, 2018,  doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2017.12.050.
  • K. Schmidt, P. Wittmüß, S. Piehler, M. A. Ahmed, T. Graf & O. Sawodny, “Modeling and simulating the thermoelastic deformation of mirrors using transient multilayer models”,  Mechatronics, 53, pp. 168-180, 2018,  doi:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2018.06.003.
  • K. Schmidt, P. Wittmüß, S. Piehler, M. A. Ahmed, T. Graf & O. Sawodny, “Modellierung optisch adressierter Spiegel für adaptive Hochleistungslaser”, at - Automatisierungstechnik, 66, pp. 506-520, 2018,  doi:10.1515/auto-2018-0013.
  • S. Alt, K. Schmidt, E. Arnold, M. Zeitz & O. Sawodny, “Inversion-based feedforward control design for linear transport systems with spatially acting input”, International Journal of Systems Science, 2016,  doi:10.1080/00207721.2016.1221481.
Conference Papers
  • K. Schmidt, T. Graf, M. A. Ahmed & O. Sawodny, “Energy-optimal disturbance feedforward control for constrained deformable mirrors with thermoelastic actuation”,  accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Bari, Italy, 2019.
  • K. Schmidt, T. Dietrich, B. Dannecker, T. Graf, M. A. Ahmed & O. Sawodny, “On compensating thermal lensing in high-power lasers using intra-cavity deformable mirrors”,  accepted for the 8th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronics, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
  • K. Schmidt, A. Raisch & O. Sawodny, “Designing pneumatically actuated deformable mirrors: control of circular plates with varying thickness”, accepted for the American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, USA, 2019.
  • K. Schmidt & O. Sawodny, “Inversion of coupled parabolic PDEs with distributed acting inputs for feedforward controlling thermoelastic deformations”,  accepted for the American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, USA, 2019.
  • M. Böhm, M. Glück, J.-U. Pott, K. Schmidt & O. Sawodny, “Advanced control algorithms and control structures for adaptive optics systems”, Adaptive Optics: Analysis, Methods & Systems, Orlando, USA, 2018.
  • J. Lischke, K.Schmidt, J. von Wulffen & O.Sawodny, “A Distributed Parameter Approach to Model the Transcriptional Response of Escherichia coli in a Scale-down Reactor”, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018.
  • K. Schmidt & O. Sawodny, “Steuerung und Regelung altersstrukturierter Populationssysteme mittels Eingangs-Ausgangs-Modellen: Lineare und nichtlineare Betrachtungen”,  GMA FA 1.40, Salzburg, Austria, 2018.
  • S. Schaut, S. Alt, K. Schmidt & O. Sawodny, “Optimal Control of Linear Transport Systems with Distributed Control Input”, IFAC World Congress , Toulouse, France, 2017.
  • S. Schaut, S. Alt, K. Schmidt & O. Sawodny, “Lineare Transportsysteme mit verteilt wirkendem Stelleingriff: Steuergungsentwurf für zeitinvariante und zeitvariante Systeme”, GMA FA 1.40, Anif, Österreich, 2017.
  • K. Schmidt & O. Sawodny, “Efficient Simulation of Semilinear Populations Models for Age-Structured Bio Reactors”, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Kohala Coast, HI, USA, 2017.
  • K. Schmidt, P. Wittmüß, S. Piehler, M. A. Ahmed, T. Graf & O. Sawodny, “Modellierung thermomechanisch aktuierter, deformierbarer Spiegel für adaptive Optiken in Hochleistungslasern”,  GMA FA 1.30, Salzburg, Austria, 2017.
  • K. Schmidt, P. Wittmüß & O. Sawodny, “Spectral Shift of Cylindrical Heat Equations by Full-State Boundary Feedback”, IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017.
  • K. Schmidt, P. Wittmüß & O. Sawodny, “On state estimation and reachability of linear PDE-BVP cascades with thermomechanical application”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

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10/2016 - present   Employee at the Institute for System Dynamics
03/2016 -

09/2016

 

Prepared the Master's thesis with Prof. Miroslav Krstic at the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, University of California, San Diego (USA) 

Topic: Yield Trajectory Tracking for Hyperbolic Age-Structured Population Systems

10/2014 - 09/2016   Studied Medical Engineering (M.Sc.) at the University of Stuttgart 
02/2013 - 09/2014   Working student and preparation of the Bachelor’s thesis in the R&D department of ERBE Elektromedizin
10/2011 - 09/2014   Joint Degree in Medical Technologies (B.Sc) at the University of Stuttgart and Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
    06/2011   High school diploma at Andreae-Gymnasium Herrenberg
 
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