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Pfaffenwaldring 5a
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Room: PWR 5a, R. 2.007
Office Hours
On appointment
Subject
Control of hybrid and switched systems
Combining continuous- and discrete time analysis and design techniques for systems that evolve continuously but also undergo instantaneous changes.

Distributed control
Scalable analysis and design approaches for large networks of systems.

Robust control
Analysis and synthesis techniques for linear systems affected by uncertainties.

Linear matrix inequalities and integral quadratic constraints
Exploring the applicability of linear matrix inequalities and dynamic integral quadratic constraints in control oriented problems.
(Journal-) Articles
- T. Holicki, C. W. Scherer, and S. Trimpe, Controller Design via Experimental Exploration with Robustness Guarantees, IEEE Control Syst. Lett., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 641–646, 2021.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Robust Gain-Scheduled Estimation with Dynamic D-Scalings, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5592–5598, 2021.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Revisiting and Generalizing the Dual Iteration for Static and Robust Output-Feedback Synthesis, Int. J. Robust Nonlin., vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 5427–5459, 2021.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Stability Analysis and Output-Feedback Synthesis of Hybrid Systems Affected by Piecewise Constant Parameters via Dynamic Resetting Scalings, Nonlinear Anal. Hybri., vol. 34, pp. 179–208, 2019.
Conference papers
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, A Dynamic S-Procedure for Dynamic Uncertainties, in IFAC-PapersOnline, 2022, vol. 55, no. 25, pp. 103–108.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Algorithm Design and Extremum Control: Convex Synthesis due to Plant Multiplier Commutation, in Proc. 60th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, 2021, pp. 3249–3256.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Output-Feedback Synthesis for a Class of Aperiodic Impulsive Systems, in IFAC-PapersOnline, 2020, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 7299–7304.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, A Homotopy Approach for Robust Output-Feedback Synthesis, in Proc. 27th. Med. Conf. Control Autom., 2019, pp. 87–93.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Output-Feedback Gain-Scheduling Synthesis for a Class of Switched Systems via Dynamic Resetting $D$-Scalings, in 57th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, 2018, pp. 6440–6445.
- C. W. Scherer and T. Holicki, An IQC theorem for relations: Towards stability analysis of data-integrated systems, in IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018, vol. 51, no. 25, pp. 390–395.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, A Swapping Lemma for Switched Systems, in IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018, vol. 51, no. 25, pp. 346–352.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Controller Synthesis for Distributed Systems over Undirected Graphs, in 55th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, 2016, pp. 5238–5244.
Other
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, IQC Based Analysis and Estimator Design for Discrete-Time Systems Affected by Impulsive Uncertainties. 2023.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Input-Output-Data-Enhanced Robust Analysis via Lifting. 2023.
- M. M. Morato, T. Holicki, and C. W. Scherer, Stabilizing Model Predictive Control Synthesis using Integral Quadratic Constraints and Full-Block Multipliers. 2023.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Optimization-based design of data-integrated controllers, Poster at the SimTech Statusseminar. 2021.
- T. Holicki and C. W. Scherer, Distributed Control of Networked Systems by Convex Optimization, Poster at the SimTech Statusseminar. 2019.
PhDs
- T. Holicki, A Complete Analysis and Design Framework for Linear Impulsive and Related Hybrid Systems, University of Stuttgart, 2022.
Current semester
- Teaching assistant: Higher mathematics 1
Previous semesters
Summer term 2021
- Teaching assistant: Higher mathematics 2
Winter term 2020/21
- Teaching assistant: Higher mathematics 1
Winter term 2019/2020
- Teaching assistant: Optimization
- SimTech B.Sc.-project supervision: Iterative learning control
Summer term 2019
- Teaching assistant: Robust Control
- SimTech B.Sc.-seminar supervision: Feedback stabilization of positive systems
Winter term 2018/2019
- Teaching assistant: Optimization
Summer term 2018
- Teaching assistant: Robust control
- SimTech B.Sc.-seminar supervision: Matrix sign function
Summer term 2017
- Teaching assistant: Linear algebra 2
- SimTech B. Sc.-seminar supervision: Stochastic matrices and markov chains
- B. Sc. thesis supervision: Modeling and control of a double inverted pendulum
Winter term 2016/2017
- Teaching assistant: Linear algebra 1
Tobias Holicki was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany, in 1990. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He is currently affiliated with the chair of Mathematical Systems Theory (Department of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart, Germany) and working towards his Ph.D. degree.
- Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems Paper Prize Award 2020
- IFAC Young Author Award 2018