Automatic control and complex systems (AKS)

AKS Courses



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Information about teaching in summer semester 2026

AKS courses will be face-to-face in the coming semester.

Detailed information about the respective courses will be announced via the corresponding websites and the moodle courses.

Please keep submitting all inquiries via EMail first!

AKS Teaching
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Faculty of Engineering Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems (AKS)

The institute under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ping Zhang  represents the subject Automatic Control and Complex Systems in the Faculty of Engineering

 

The AKS institute has set itself the goals of establishing a future-oriented university education in automation and control engineering in teaching and striving for an internationally leading role in research in the field of fault-tolerant systems.

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lecture series Professor Qing Zhao - Advanced Optimal Control and Estimation

The institute AKS is happy to announce that

Professor Qing Zhao from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada will give a lecture series on 

Advanced Optimal Control and Estimation

open for master and PhD students.

Prof. Zhao is visiting our institute in the framework of a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt grant.
The schedule is as follows (each with possibility for discussion afterwards) taking place in room BB416:

1. Thursday, 07.05.2026  02:00 pm - 03:30 pm : 

Dynamic optimization concepts and optimality conditions

2. Tuesday, 12.05.2026  09:00 am - 10:30 am :

Linear quadratic control based on minimum principle and HJB equation

3. Thursday, 21.05.2026  02:00 pm - 03:30 pm : 

Optimal estimation, LS estimator, Kalman filtering

4. Thursday, 28.05.2026  11:00 am - 12:30 pm : 

Applications of optimal estimation