Personal profile
Research interests
- Model Predictive Control
- Data and learning based estimation and control
- Analysis and control of nonlinear systems
- Analysis and control of networked dynamical systems
Academic career and education
Matthias A. Müller received a Diploma degree in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, both in 2009. In 2014, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart for a dissertation entitled "Distributed and economic model predictive control: beyond setpoint stabilization". From 2014 to 2019, he held a lecturer and later senior lecturer position (Akademischer Oberrat) at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart. He joined the Leibniz University Hannover as full professor for automatic control and director of the Institute of Automatic Control in February 2019.
Matthias Müller's research interests include nonlinear control and estimation, model predictive control, distributed control and learning-based control, with application in different fields including biomedical engineering and robotics. He has received various awards and fellowships for his work, including the 2015 EECI PhD award (award for the best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of control for complex and heterogeneous systems), an ERC starting grant in 2020, the inaugural Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award for the best paper published in Systems & Control Letters in the period 2014-2018, and the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award 2022. He is a member of several technical committees of the IEEE Control Systems Society and IFAC, and serves as program committee member and associate editor for various international conferences, including the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is an editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
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Multi-Objective Robust Controller Synthesis With Integral Quadratic Constraints in Discrete-Time
Schwenkel, L., Köhler, J., Müller, M. A., Scherer, C. W. & Allgöwer, F., 27 Jan 2026, In: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 36, 3, p. 935-954 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer review
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Nonlinear moving horizon estimation for robust state and parameter estimation
Schiller, J. D. & Müller, M. A., Mar 2026, In: AUTOMATICA. 185, 112790.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer review
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Online convex optimization for constrained control of nonlinear systems
Nonhoff, M., Köhler, J. & Müller, M. A., Jun 2026, In: Automatica. 188, 112916.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer review
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A novel constraint-tightening approach for robust data-driven predictive control
Klöppelt, C., Berberich, J., Allgöwer, F. & Müller, M. A., 10 May 2025, In: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 35, 7, p. 2566-2587 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer review
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Distributed Economic MPC with Adaptive Terminal Weights
Köhler, M., Müller, M. A. & Allgöwer, F., 2025, In: IFAC-PapersOnLine. 58, 18, p. 99-106 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › Research › peer review
Open Access
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Robust stability and suboptimality in nonlinear moving horizon estimation --- From conceptual to practically relevant guarantees
Müller, M. (Principal Investigator)
1 Jul 2024 → 30 Jun 2027
Project: Research
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CAIMed: Lower Saxony Center for AI and Causal Methods in Medicine
Nejdl, W. (Principal Investigator), Lindauer, M. T. (Co-Principal Investigator), Auer, S. (Co-Principal Investigator), Kudenko, D. (Co-Principal Investigator), Vidal Serodio, M. E. (Co-Principal Investigator), Müller, M. (Co-Principal Investigator), Rosenhahn, B. (Co-Principal Investigator) & Hoppe, N. C. (Principal Investigator)
1 Nov 2023 → 31 Oct 2028
Project: Research
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Online convex optimization for control of dynamical systems
Müller, M. (Principal Investigator), Lilge, T. (Co-Investigator) & Nonhoff, M. (Project staff)
1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2025
Project: Research
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Cont4Med: Estimation and control under limited information with application to biomedical systems
Müller, M. (Principal Investigator), Lilge, T. (Co-Investigator), Alsalti, M. S. A. (Project staff), Lopez Mejia, V. G. (Project staff), Krauss, I. M. (Project staff) & Wolff, T. M. (Co-Investigator)
1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2025
Project: Research
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Robust stability and suboptimality in nonlinear moving horizon estimation - From conceptual to practically relevant guarantees
Müller, M. (Principal Investigator), Lilge, T. (Co-Investigator) & Schiller, J. D. (Project staff)
1 Apr 2020 → 31 Aug 2024
Project: Research
Datasets
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Robust Control of Constrained Linear Systems using Online Convex Optimization and a Reference Governor
Nonhoff, M. (Creator), Torshan, M. T. A. (Creator) & Müller, M. A. (Creator), Forschungsdaten-Repositorium der LUH, 2024
DOI: 10.25835/x2q5hrrg, https://data.uni-hannover.de/dataset/670cf49d-6ec7-4f4c-8cef-e653c1511dff
Dataset
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Circular Fields and Predictive Multi-Agents for Online Global Trajectory Planning
Becker, M. (Creator), Lilge, T. (Creator), Müller, M. A. (Creator) & Haddadin, S. (Creator), Forschungsdaten-Repositorium der LUH, 2024
DOI: 10.25835/rwd2e8or, https://data.uni-hannover.de/dataset/b539227a-b354-402a-b8a8-68b554b0eada
Dataset
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ICF IFAC 2023 Videos
Becker, M. (Creator), Caspers, P. (Creator), Hattendorf, T. (Creator), Lilge, T. (Creator), Haddadin, S. (Creator) & Müller, M. (Creator), Forschungsdaten-Repositorium der LUH, 2022
DOI: 10.25835/erbbvx5h, https://data.uni-hannover.de/dataset/988cc908-999d-4a69-9942-77d27277ed2a
Dataset
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Circular Fields for Robot Soccer
Zeug, F. (Creator), Becker, M. (Creator) & Müller, M. (Creator), Forschungsdaten-Repositorium der LUH, 17 Aug 2023
DOI: 10.25835/i5vzko1b, https://data.uni-hannover.de/dataset/854a4e21-36f3-4adb-ac56-c7eaf2c5e830
Dataset
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Predictive Multi-Agent based Planning and Landing Controller for Reactive Dual-Arm Manipulation
Laha, R. (Creator), Becker, M. (Creator), Vorndamme, J. (Creator), Vrabel, J. (Creator), Figueredo, L. F. C. (Creator), Müller, M. A. (Creator) & Haddadin, S. (Creator), Forschungsdaten-Repositorium der LUH, 2023
DOI: 10.25835/7mvvk9qg, https://data.uni-hannover.de/dataset/fd9c740a-316c-44d7-83e4-0a7c89f12846
Dataset
Prizes
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IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
Müller, M. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Publication award
Activities
- 1 Editorial work
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Automatica (Journal)
Müller, M. (Editor)
2023 → …Activity: Publication/conference peer review and editorial work › Editorial work