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Prof. Dr. Thomas Besselmann

Thomas Besselmann

Activities at FHNW

  • Lecturer for Mechatronics at the FHNW Institute of Automation
  • Responsible for the profile Mechatronics and Automation at the Master of Science in Engineering MSE

Teaching

  • Introduction to control systems
  • Control systems: Frequency domain methods and state-space representation
  • Mobile automation
  • Laboratory automation

Profile

Biography

Professional Activities

Since 2018

Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz: Lecturer for Mechatronics

2011 – 2017

ABB Schweiz AG, Corporate Research (Baden-Dättwil): Project leader for R&D projects:

  • Efficiency improvements for electric driven gas compressor stations by means of firing angle optimization
  • Increased robustness of electric driven gas compressor stations during voltage dips
  • Revamping the control system of ABB’s Megadrive LCI, a load commutated converter for synchronous machines

Education

2006 – 2010

Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich: Dissertation about explicit model predictive control of linear parameter varying systems

2003 – 2005

Hamburg University of Technology: Mechatronics with focus on control

2004 – 2005

Control Systems Centre, University of Manchester: Semester thesis about genetic programming and nonlinear system identification with wavelets

2000 – 2003

Hamburg University of Technology: General engineering science with focus on mechatronics

Publications

Condensed list

  • Besselmann et al., "Increasing the Robustness of Large Electric Driven Compressor Systems During Voltage Dips". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, to appear.
  • Besselmann, S. Van de moortel, S. Almér, P. Jörg, H.J. Ferreau: “Model Predictive Control in the Multi-Megawatt Range”. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 4641-4648, 2016.
  • Peyrl, A. Zanarini, T. Besselmann, J. Liu, M.A. Boéchat: “Parallel Implementations of the Fast Gradient Method for High-Speed MPC”. Control Engineering Practice, vol. 33, pp. 22-34, 2014.
  • Besselmann, A. Mester, D. Dujic: “Power Electronic Traction Transformer: Efficiency Improvements under Light-Load Conditions”. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 3971-3981, 2014.
  • Axehill, T. Besselmann, D.M. Raimondo, M. Morari: “A Parametric Branch and Bound Approach to Suboptimal Explicit Hybrid MPC”. Automatica, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 240-246, 2014.
  • Besselmann, J. Löfberg, M. Morari: “Explicit MPC for LPV Systems: Stability and Optimality”. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2322-2332, 2012.
  • Besselmann, M. Morari: “Hybrid Parameter-Varying MPC for Autonomous Vehicle Steering”. European Journal of Control, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 418-431, 2008.
  • Rostalski, T. Besselmann, M. Baric, F. von Belzen, M. Morari: “A Hybrid Approach to Modeling, Control and State Estimation of Mechanical Systems with Backlash”. International Journal of Control, vol. 80, no. 11, pp. 1729-1740, Special Issue on Automotive Systems and Control, 2007.

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Besselmann

Prof. Dr. Thomas Besselmann

Lecturer for Mechatronics

Telephone

+41 56 202 85 29

E-mail

thomas.besselmann@fhnw.ch

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Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt Klosterzelgstrasse 2 5210 Windisch

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