Trimpe, Sebastian

ETH Zürich Sebastian Trimpe Inst. Dynam. Syst. u. Regelungst. ML K 33 Sonneggstrasse 3 8092 Zuerich Phone: +41 44 632 63 65 E-Mail:

Bio

Sebastian Trimpe is a Ph.D. candidate with Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC) at ETH Zurich. Sebastian received the B.S. degree in General Engineering Science in 2005 and the M.S. degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering two years later, both from Hamburg University of Technology. In 2007, he spent eight months as a research scholar at University of California at Berkeley. He is recipient of the General Engineering Award for the best undergraduate degree (2004), a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (2002 to 2007), and the triennial IFAC World Congress Interactive Paper Prize (2011).

Sebastian's full CV

Current Research

• Distributed and Event-Based State Estimation for Networked Control Systems
• The Balancing Cube
  The Balancing Cube is a dynamic sculpture and a research platform for distributed estimation and control. Six rotating arms on the cube's inner faces (each with sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities) constitute the agents in the control system that stabilizes the cube.

Publications

• S. Trimpe and R. D’Andrea, The Balancing Cube – a dynamic sculpture as testbed for distributed estimation and control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2012, submitted.
• S. Trimpe and R. D’Andrea, Event-based state estimation with variance-based triggering, 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2012, submitted.
• S. Trimpe, Event-Based State Estimation with Switching Static-Gain Observers, 3rd IFAC workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Sep. 2012, submitted.
• S. Trimpe and R. D'Andrea, Reduced Communication State Estimation for Control of an Unstable Networked Control System, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, 2011, pp. 2361-2368.
• S. Trimpe and R. D'Andrea, An Experimental Demonstration of a Distributed and Event-based State Estimation Algorithm, 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011, pp. 8811–8818.
• S. Trimpe and R. D'Andrea, Accelerometer-based Tilt Estimation of a Rigid Body with only Rotational Degrees of Freedom, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010, pp. 2630-2636.
• S. Trimpe and R. D'Andrea, A Limiting Property of the Matrix Exponential with Application to Multi-loop Control, Joint 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, 2009, pp. 6419-6425.
• A. Kwiatkowski, S. Trimpe and H. Werner, Less Conservative Polytopic LPV Models for Charge Control by Combining Parameter Set Mapping and Set Intersection, 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007, pp 3363-3368.

Invited Talks

• Event-Based State Estimation for Networked Control Systems, Automatic Control Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2012.
• A Cube That Balances Itself on a Corner, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Workshop for High School Students and Teachers on "Ideas and Technology of Control Systems", Orlando, USA, Dec 2011.
• Reduced Communication State Estimation for Networked Control Systems, Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Bochum University, Germany, Nov 2011.
• Balancing Cube, Swiss Science Center Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland, May 2011.
• The Balancing Cube, Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Bochum University, Germany, Dec 2009.
• The Balancing Cube, Alumni Meeting of the Institute of Control Systems, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, Nov 2009.
• On the Robustness of Swarm Behavior to Obstacle Variations, Mechanik Seminar, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Stuttgart University, Germany, Nov 2007.

Exhibitions (Balancing Cube)

• IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug 2011.
• Festival Della Scienza, Genoa, Italy, Oct 2009.
• Nacht der Forschung, Zurich, Switzerland, Sep 2009.