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Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Assistant

Nils Schlüter M.Sc.

Email:  nils.schluetertu-dortmundde

Tel.: +49 231 755-8196

Room: Maschinenbaugebäude 2, Raum 318

Office hours: on request

Picture of Nils Schlüter © RCS​/​NS

Research Interest

  • Encrypted Control (cloud-based, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation)
  • Optimization and optimal control (linear/quadratic/semidefinite/nonlinear programming, model predictive control)

Teaching Activities

Angewandte konvexe Optimierung (Übung)

Regelungstechnik (Übung)

Further Information

05 | 2024 – today: Beckhoff

11 | 2020 – 04 | 2024: Research assistant in the Control and Cyberphysical Systems Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Dort­mund University

11 | 2019 – 11 | 2020: Research assistant for Encrypted Control, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Paderborn University

03 | 2019 – 09 | 2019: Master thesis at IAV in Gifhorn, Department for Research and Development

05 | 2018 – 12 | 2018: Scientific Assistant at the institute of Continuum Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover

09 | 2016 – 09 | 2019: Studies on Mechatronic Engineering (M.Sc. 09 | 2019, passed with distinction), at the Leibniz University Hannover

09 | 2015 – 09 | 2016: Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Thermodynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hochschule Osnabrück

09 | 2015 – 09 | 2016: Studies on Mechatronic Systems Engineering (switched to Leibniz University Hannover), Hochschule Osnabrück

05 | 2013 – 08 | 2013: Internship at KME in Osnabrück

08 | 2012 – 09 | 2015: Studies on Mechanical Engineering (B.Sc. 09 | 2015) at the Hochschule Osnabrück

J. Adamek, P. Binfet, N. Schlüter, and M. Schulze Darup. Encrypted system identification as-a-service via reliable encrypted matrix inversion, 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2024 (accepted). Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20575

J. Adamek, N.Schlüter and M. Schulze Darup. On the design of stabilizing FIR controllers, 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2024 (accepted).

P. Binfet, N.Schlüter and M. Schulze Darup. On the security of randomly transformed quadratic programs related to privacy-preserving cloud-based control, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023 (submitted).

Nils Schlü­ter, Philipp Binfet, Junsoo Kim, and Moritz Schulze Darup. Encrypted distributed state estimation via affine averaging, 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022 (accepted). Preprint: arXiv:2209.07206

N. Schlüter and M. Schulze Darup. On the stability of linear dynamic controllers with integer coefficients, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 67(10): pp. 5610-5613, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3131126

N. Schlü­ter, M. Neuhaus, and M. Schulze Darup. Encrypted extremum seeking for privacy-preserving PID tuning as-a-Service, 2022 European Control Conference (ECC), 2022 (accepted).

K. Tjell, N. Schlü­ter, P. Binfet, and M. Schulze Darup. Secure learning-based MPC via garbled circuit, 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 4907-4914, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683540, Preprint: arXiv:2112.03654

N. Schlü­ter, M. Neuhaus, and M. Schulze Darup. Encrypted dynamic control with unlimited operating time via FIR filters, in Proc. of the 2021 European Control Conference (ECC), pp. 952-957, 2021. DOI: 10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9655161, Preprint: arXiv:2112.02931

N. Schlü­ter and M. Schulze Darup. Encrypted explicit MPC based on two-party computation and convex controller decomposition, in Proc. of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5469-5476, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304078

N. Schlü­ter and M. Schulze Darup. Novel convex decomposition of piecewise affine functions, in Proc. of the 21st IFAC World Congress, 2020. Reprint: arXiv:2108.03950