Matthias Konz

Research assistant

Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Konz
Saarland University
Chair of Systems Theory and Control Engineering
Campus A5 1, Room 2.06
66123 Saarbrücken

Tel.: +49 681 302-64729
m.konz(at)lsr.uni-saarland.de

Biography

since 2010: research assistant at LSR
2011-2012: research assistant at ZeMA gGmbH
2006-2010: student assistant at LKT, LTE, and LSR
2009: semester abroad at Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden
2005-2010: studies of Mechatronics at Saarland University; degree: diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) with distinction

Research Topics

modeling and control of an autonomous unic ycle
modeling of waves on cyclindrical elastic tubes
control of mechanical systems using differential geometry

Teaching

RISE Projects

Research Internships in Science and Engineering (link)

Integrating a Real-Time Operating System into the Hardware of an Autonomous Unicycle (summer 2011),
Xingbo Wang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Development of a Motor Driver (summer 2012),
Dennis Clyne (Lakehead University, USA)

Miscellaneous

"VDE-Preis 2011 des VDE-Bezirksvereins Saar" - award for the diploma thesis (certificate)

Publications

M. Konz, D. Kastelan, J. Rudolph, Tracking Control for a Fully-Actuated UAV, in: XT. Yan, D. Bradley, D. Russell, P. Moore (EDS.), Reinventing Mechatronics, Springer, pp. 127-144, 2020. DOI

A. Irscheid, M. Konz, J. Rudolph, A Flatness-Based Approach to the Control of Distributed Parameter Systems Applied to Load Transportation with Heavy Ropes, in: Y. Kondratenko, A. Chikrii, V. Gubarev, J. Kacprzyk (EDS.), Advanced Control Techniques in Complex Engineering Systems: Theory and Applications. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Vol. 203. Springer, pp. 279-294, 2019. DOI

M. Konz, D. Kastelan, D. Gerbet, J. Rudolph, Practical Challenges of Fully-Actuated Tricopter Control, in: Proc. Mechatronics 2018, Glasgow, UK, September 19-21, 2018.

M. Konz and J. Rudolph, Redundant configuration coordinates and nonholonomic velocity coordinates in analytical mechanics, in: Proc. 9th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria, February 21-23, 2018, pp. 409–414, 2018. DOI

M. Konz, J. Rudolph, Beispiele für einen direkten Zugang zu einer globalen, energiebasierten Modellbildung und Regelung von Starrkörpersystemen (Examples for a direct approach to global energy-based modeling and control of rigid body systems), at - Automatisierungstechnik, 64, 96-109, 2016. (Best paper award) DOI

D. Kastelan, M. Konz, and J. Rudolph, Fully actuated tricopter with pilot-supporting control, in: Workshop on Advanced Control and Navigation for Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles, Sevilla, Spain, June 10-12, 2015. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 48, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 79-84. DOI

M. Konz and J. Rudolph, Equations of motion with redundant coordinates for mechanical systems on manifolds, in: Proc. 8th MATHMOD, Vienna, Austria, February 18-20, 2015, pp. 697-698, 2015. DOI

M. Konz and J. Rudolph, Quadrotor tracking control based on a moving frame, in: Proc. 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Toulouse, France, September 4-6, 2013, pp. 80-85, 2013. DOI