The current research of the dyn group addresses five areas in process systems engineering:
- Economics optimizing control
- Robust model-based control
- Iterative optimization using gradient modifiers
- Control of polymerization processes
- Control of chromatographic separations
- Control of the miniplants in the DFG Transregio InPROMPT
- Market-like mechanisms for the coordination of coupled units
- Real-time monitoring and optimization of resource efficiency
- Simulation environment for the distributed management of systems of systems
- Demand-side management
- Planning and scheduling under uncertainty
- Timed automata based scheduling
- Reactive scheduling
- Modeling and control of yeat fermentations
- Modeling and model-based optimization of CHO cultures
- Model-based supportfor the early stages of process development
- Algorithms for design problems with many local optima
- Batch-to-conti transfer for copolymerizations