Towards new shores or back to the roots?

• Dirk Abel

  Dirk Abel received the Dipl.-Ing degree in mechanical engineering in 1983 and the Dr.-Ing. Degree in 1987 from RWTH Aachen University. There, in 2001, he became full professor and head of the Institute of Automatic Control. From 2009 to 2017, he was a member of the supervisory board of KUKA AG, Germany. Professor Abel’s main research area covers model predictive control, nonlinear and robust control, rapid control prototyping, as well as, navigation, sensor-data fusion, and autonomous driving in different application areas.

  and Thomas Meurer

  Thomas Meurer is a full Professor and head of the Chair of Automation and Control at the Faculty of Engineering of Kiel University, Germany. His research interests include control, optimization, and state estimation for linear and nonlinear finite-dimensional and distributed parameter systems and their application in manufacturing and production processes, robotics, multi-agent systems, maritime systems, adaptive mechatronic structures, and process systems engineering.