Dr.-Ing. Andreas Varga (F-IEEE)
Senior Scientist
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
D-82234 Wessling
Phone: +49 (8153) 28-2407
Fax: +49 (8153) 28-1441
E-Mail: Andreas.Varga(at)dlr.de

Research Interests:

• Numerical Methods and Software in Control
• Model and Controller Reduction
• Descriptor Systems
• Periodic Systems
• Fault Detection

Current Projects:

• ADDSAFE: Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Safer Flight Guidance and Control, 2009-2012
  with AIRBUS, Deimos Space, University of Hull, University of Leicester, CNRS-IMS (Université de Bordeaux), TU Delft, SZTAKI

Earlier Projects:

• GARTEUR: Action Group on Robust Flight Control, FM(AG08), 1994-1997
• NICONET: Network for Development and Evaluation of Numerically Reliable Software in Control Engineering and its Implementation in Production Technologies, Brite/EuRam III RTD Thematic Network, 1998 - 2002
  with KU Leuven (S. Van Huffel), UC Louvain (P. Van Dooren), TU Berlin (V. Mehrmann), Univ. Bremen (P. Benner), TU Delft (M. Verhaegen), TU Eindhoven (A. van den Boom and A. Stoorvogel), Univ. Umea (Bo Kagstrom), TU Valencia (V. Hernandez), NAG (S. Hammarling), and several industrial partners.
• DFG-Research Project: 'Numerical methods for robust control' 11/2000 - 10/2003
  with V. Mehrmann (TU Berlin), P. Benner (TU Chemnitz) and A. Bunse-Gerstner (Univ. Bremen)
• GARTEUR: Action Group on New Analysis Techniques for Clearance of Flight Control Laws, FM(AG11), 1999-2002
• GARTEUR: Action Group on Fault Tolerant Control, FM(AG16), 2003-2007
• Swedish Strategic Research Foundation Grant: 'Matrix Pencil Computations in Computer-Aided Control System Design: Theory, Algorithms and Software Tools', 2002-2008
  with the Department of Computing Science and High Performance Computing Center North - HPC2N, University of Umea
• IMMUNE: Intelligent Monitoring and Management of Unexpected Events, with ONERA, 2006-2009
• COFCLUO: Clearance of Flight Control Laws Using Optimization, 2007-2010
  with Linköping University, AIRBUS, ONERA, FOI, University of Sienna

Curriculum Vitae (brief biography, full CV)

Recent talks:

• IFAC Word Congress 2008, July 6-11, Seoul, Korea
• Householder Symposium XVII, June 1-6, 2008, Zeuthen, Germany
• Plenary talk at IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, September 3-5, 2008, San Antonio, USA

Publications and Reports

Note: The 'Publications and Reports' link guides you to the DLR publications web server where you find my publications until back to the year 1993 mostly as PDF-files. Papers dating before 1997 are also listed here, with my homepage.