Professor Frank Allgöwer, laureate of the Leibniz Prize in Cybernetics, addressed the audience in KNRTU-KAI.
On Tuesday, February 27, a unique event was held in KNRTU-KAI. That was the first Leibniz Lecture in Kazan, conducted by Professor Frank Allgöwer, Vice-President of the German Research Community and laureate of the Leibniz Prize in Cybernetics. The organizer of the lecture was the German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies of the University together with the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Frank Allgöwer is professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Stuttgart in Germany, director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control (IST) and director of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Systems Biology (SRCSB). He studied Engineering Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics in Stuttgart and at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) respectively and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Stuttgart. Prior to his present appointment he held an assistant professorship in the electrical engineering department at ETH Zurich and visiting positions at Caltech, the NASA Ames Research Center, the DuPont Company, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Newcastle in Australia. Since 2012 Frank serves in addition as Vice-President of Germany’s most important research funding agency, the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn, Germany.
Frank's main interests in research and teaching are in the area of systems and control with emphasis on the development of new methods for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems, networks of systems, optimization based control and data based control. His application interests span a wide range from chemical engineering via mechatronic systems to systems biology. He has published over 500 scientific articles on his research and received several recognitions including several best paper awards, an IFAC Fellowship, the IFAC Outstanding Service Award, the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award, the State Teaching Award of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and the Leibniz Prize, which is the most prestigious award in science and engineering awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Before the lecture, Prof. Allgöwer the audience. "Being here today is a pleasure for me," he said. "Many thanks for the invitation to speak. This is my second visit to Kazan, and today I will tell you about new discoveries and challenges in the management of interconnected networks."
According to the lecturer, the development of digital world technologies contributes to the emergence and application of new technologies, such as autonomous unmanned vehicles, energy distribution through intelligent networks, smart city technologies or Industry 4.0. However, the new technological era requires a new type of cybernetic systems and control theory that go beyond the framework of classical ideas.
After completing his speech, the professor answered the questions and took part in the discussion of new ideas.
