Prof. Dr. Georg Schildbach

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Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine
Universität zu Lübeck
Moislinger Allee 53-55
23558 Lübeck
Gebäude 19

Email: georg.schildbach(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 3101 6202

Research

My main research interests are (more details): 

  • Real-time optimization
  • Dynamic systems and control
  • Machine learning
  • Safety and reliability
  • Autonomous systems

Curriculum Vitae

Georg Schildbach obtained his Masters degrees in Applied Mechanics (Dipl.-Ing.) and Industrial Engineering (Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing.) from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, in 2008.

After two years in the financial industry, he joined the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as a doctoral researcher. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the field of control and optimization in 2014. The topic of his dissertation was risk-aware optimization for planning and control.

In 2014, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, U.S.A.,  where he was the Associate Director of the Hyundai of Excellence. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as a research engineer and project manager at Elektronische Fahrwerksysteme GmbH in Ingolstadt, Germany. The main fields of his work were vehicle dynamics control and automated driving.

Since 2018, he is a Professor of Mechatronics at the University of Luebeck. His research interests are real-time optimization, predictive and learning-based control, and safety and reliability for autonomous systems.

Selected Publications

Xiaorong Zhang, Sahar Zeinali, and Georg Schildbach,
Interaction-aware Traffic Prediction and Scenario-based Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways, European Control Conference (ECC), 2024.
Sahar Zeinali, Michael Fleps-Dezasse, Julian King, and Georg Schildbach,
Design of a utility-based lane change decision making algorithm and a motion planning for energy-efficient highway driving, Control Engineering Practice , vol. 146, pp. 105881, 2024. Elsevier.
Dimitrios S. Karachalios, Maryam Nezami, Georg Schildbach, and Hossam S. Abbas,
Error Bounds in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Linear Differential Inclusions of Parametric-Varying Embeddings, 2023.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@misc{karachalios2023error,
      title = {Error Bounds in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Linear Differential Inclusions of Parametric-Varying Embeddings}, 
      author={Dimitrios S. Karachalios and Maryam Nezami and Georg Schildbach and Hossameldin S. Abbas},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2310.01049},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={math.OC}
}
Maryam Nezami, Dimitrios S. Karachalios, Georg Schildbach, and Hossam S. Abbas,
On the Design of Nonlinear MPC and LPVMPC for Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Driving, in International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)(accepted) , Italy , 2023.
Weblink: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06031.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@Inproceedings{Nezami2023,
author = {Maryam Nezami and Dimitrios S. Karachalios and Georg Schildbach and Hossam S. Abbas},
title = {On the Design of Nonlinear MPC and LPVMPC for Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Driving},
booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)(accepted)},
year = {2023},
month = {July},
address = {Italy}
 url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06031.pdf}
}
Fabian Domberg, Carlos Castelar Wembers, Hiren Patel, and Georg Schildbach,
Deep Drifting: Autonomous Drifting of Arbitrary Trajectories using Deep Reinforcement Learning, in 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2022. pp. 7753-7759.
DOI:10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9812249
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{9812249,
  author={Domberg, Fabian and Wembers, Carlos Castelar and Patel, Hiren and Schildbach, Georg},
  booktitle={2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, 
  title={Deep Drifting: Autonomous Drifting of Arbitrary Trajectories using Deep Reinforcement Learning}, 
  year={2022},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={7753-7759},
  doi={10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9812249}}
M. Nezami, H. S. Abbas, N. T. Nguyen, and G. Schildbach,
Robust Tube-Based LPV-MPC for Autonomous Lane Keeping., in IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems , Montreal, Canada , 2022.
File: 2210.02971.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{NeAbNgSc22,
	address = {Montreal, Canada},
	title = {Robust Tube-Based LPV-MPC for Autonomous Lane Keeping.},
	booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems},
	author = {Nezami, M. and Abbas, H. S. and Nguyen, N. T. and Schildbach, G.},
	year = {2022}
url= {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.02971.pdf}
}
T. K. Kaiser, M. J. Begemann, T. Plattenteich, L. Schilling, G. Schildbach, and H. Hamann,
ROS2SWARM – A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , Philadelphia, PA, United States , 2022.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{KaBePlScScHa22,
	address = {Philadelphia, PA, United States},
	title = {ROS2SWARM – A ROS 2 Package  for  Swarm  Robot  Behaviors},
	booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
	author = {Kaiser, T. K. and Begemann, M. J. and Plattenteich, T. and Schilling, L. and Schildbach, G. and Hamann, H.},
	year = {2022}
}
Maryam Nezami, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Georg Männel, Hossam Seddik Abbas, and Georg Schildbach,
A Safe Control Architecture Based on Robust Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Driving, in 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) , 2022.
File: 2206.09735.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@InProceedings{Nezami2022,
  author    = {Maryam Nezami and Ngoc Thinh Nguyen and Georg Männel and Hossam Seddik Abbas and Georg Schildbach},
  booktitle = {2022 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  title     = {A Safe Control Architecture Based on Robust Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Driving},
  year      = {2022},
  month     = jun,
  groups    = {safe MPC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.09735.pdf}
}
D. Henning, and G. Schildbach,
A Continuous Collision Checking Method for Non-holonomic Path Planning in Narrow Environments., in International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing , Iasi, Romania , 2022.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{HeSc22,
	address = {Iasi, Romania},
	title = {A Continuous Collision Checking Method for Non-holonomic Path Planning in Narrow Environments.},
	booktitle = {International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing},
	author = {Henning, D. and Schildbach, G.},
	year = {2022}
}
[en] Honghu Xue, Benedikt Hein, Mohamed Bakr, Georg Schildbach, Bengt Abel, and Elmar Rueckert,
Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Automatic Curriculum Learning for Mapless Navigation in Intralogistics, Applied Sciences , vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 3153, 2022.
DOI:10.3390/app12063153
File: 3153
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{XuHeBaScAbRu22,
	title = {Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Automatic Curriculum Learning for Mapless Navigation in Intralogistics},
	volume = {12},
	issn = {2076-3417},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/6/3153},
	doi = {10.3390/app12063153},
	language = {en},
	number = {6},
	urldate = {2022-08-29},
	journal = {Applied Sciences},
	author = {Xue, Honghu and Hein, Benedikt and Bakr, Mohamed and Schildbach, Georg and Abel, Bengt and Rueckert, Elmar},
	month = mar,
	year = {2022},
	pages = {3153}
}
Maryam Nezami, Georg Männel, Hossam Seddik Abbas, and Georg Schildbach,
A Safe Control Architecture Based on a Model Predictive Control Supervisor for Autonomous Driving, in 2021 European Control Conference (ECC) , IEEE, 2021.
DOI:10.23919/ecc54610.2021.9655155
File: 2201.13298.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Nezami2021,
  doi = {10.23919/ecc54610.2021.9655155},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.13298.pdf},
  year = {2021},
  month = jun,
  publisher = {IEEE},
  author = {Maryam Nezami and Georg Mannel and Hossam Seddik Abbas and Georg Schildbach},
  title = {A Safe Control Architecture Based on a Model Predictive Control Supervisor for Autonomous Driving},
  booktitle = {2021 European Control Conference ({ECC})}
}
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Lars Schilling, Michael Sebastian Angern, Heiko Hamann, Floris Ernst, and Georg Schildbach,
B-spline path planner for safe navigation of mobile robots, in 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , Prague, Czech Republic: IEEE, 2021.
DOI:10.1109/iros51168.2021.9636612
File: iros51168.2021.9636612
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Nguyen2021,
  doi = {10.1109/iros51168.2021.9636612},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/iros51168.2021.9636612},
  year = {2021},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  author = {Ngoc Thinh Nguyen and Lars Schilling and Michael Sebastian Angern and Heiko Hamann and Floris Ernst and Georg Schildbach},
  title = {B-spline path planner for safe navigation of mobile robots},
  booktitle = {2021 {IEEE}/{RSJ} International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ({IROS})}
}
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, and Georg Schildbach,
Tightening polytopic constraint in MPC designs for mobile robot navigation, in 25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing , Iași, Romania , 2021.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{NgSch21,
  address = {Iași, Romania},
  title={Tightening polytopic constraint in MPC designs for mobile robot navigation},
  author={Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh and Schildbach, Georg},
  booktitle={25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing},
  year={2021}
}
G. Schildbach, F. Sellmann, S. Beer, T. Lubiniecki, and A. Meisinger,
Computerimplementiertes Regelungs- oder Folgeregelungsverfahren oder Optimierungsverfahren zur Absicherung von Steuerungs-algorithmen einer Regelung und/oder Regelungsalgorithmen, 2021.
T. Lubiniecki, S. Beer, A. Meisinger, F. Sellmann, P. Spannaus, and G. Schildbach,
Concept and Implementation of an Optimization-based Safety Verification Strategy for a Trajectory Following Controller, in ATZ Fachtagung Automatisiertes Fahren , 2020.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{LuBeMeSeSpSc20,
author = {Lubiniecki, T. and Beer, S. and Meisinger, A. and Sellmann, F. and Spannaus, P. and Schildbach, G.},
booktitle = {ATZ Fachtagung Automatisiertes Fahren},
title = {{Concept and Implementation of an Optimization-based Safety Verification Strategy for a Trajectory Following Controller}},
year = {2020}
}
R. Kensbock, P. Huß, and G. Schildbach,
Trajectory Control with Lane Boundary Constraints for Autonomous Vehicles using Model Predictive Control, in BioMedTec Studierendentagung, Lübeck (Germany) , 2020.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{KeHuSc20,
author = {Kensbock, R. and Huß, P. and Schildbach, G.},
booktitle = {BioMedTec Studierendentagung, Lübeck (Germany)},
title = {{Trajectory Control with Lane Boundary Constraints for Autonomous Vehicles using Model Predictive Control}},
year = {2020}
}
G. Schildbach, F. Sellmann, S. Beer, T. Lubiniecki, and A. Meisinger,
Computerimplementiertes Regelungs- oder Folgeregelungsverfahren oder Optimierungsverfahren zur Absicherung von Steuerungsalgorithmen einer Regelung und/oder Regelungsalgorithmen (Patent Filed), 2020.
Georg Schildbach,
Konzepte für die Sicherheit autonomer Fahrzeuge, 2018.
File:
Bibtex: BibTeX
@misc{Sc18,
 author = {Schildbach, Georg},
 year = {2018},
 title = {{Konzepte f{\"u}r die Sicherheit autonomer Fahrzeuge}},
 url = {https://www.oksh.de/ki/sehen/mediathek/?beitrag=kuenstliche-intelligenz-perspektiven-fuer-schleswig-holstein-konzepte-fuer-die-sicherheit-autonomer-fahrzeuge},
 address = {Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany},
 series = {{K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz - Perspektiven f{\"u}r Schleswig-Holstein}},
 booktitle = {{K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz - Perspektiven f{\"u}r Schleswig-Holstein}}
}