Dr.-Ing. Florian Dignath |
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Dr.-Ing. (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Stuttgart Dipl.-Ing. (diploma engineer), University of Stuttgart Certificate of Engineering, University of Sussex |
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| Occupation: | Senior System Engineer at thyssenkrupp Transrapid/TechCenter Control Technology | |
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Earlier Occupation: |
System Engineer at ThyssenKrupp Transrapid/TechCenter Control Technology Project Manager at ThyssenKrupp Transrapid/TechCenter Control Technology Development Engineer at ThyssenKrupp Transrapid Scientific assistent at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (formerly known as Institute B of Mechanics) under supervision of Prof. Dr. W. Schiehlen and Prof. Dr. P. Eberhard |
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| Email: | Florian.Dignath (at) vdi-sued.de |
Dignath, Florian: Empfindlichkeitsanalyse punktweise definierter Optimierungskriterien. Diploma Thesis DIPL-71, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, May 1998.
Dignath, Florian and Schiehlen, Werner: Nonlinear Structural Vibrations Control. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ENOC. 1999. http://www.imm.dtu.dk/mps/ENOC/proceedings.
Eberhard, Peter and Dignath, Florian: Control Optimization of Multibody Systems Using Point- and Piecewise Defined Optimization Criteria. Engineering Optimization, vol. 32, pp. 417-438, 2000.
Dignath, Florian and Schiehlen, Werner: Control of the Vibrations of a Tethered Satellite System. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PMM), vol. 64(5), pp. 715-722, 2000.
Dignath, Florian and Schiehlen, Werner: Schwingungsregelung eines seilgefesselten Satellitensystems. Prikladnaja Matematika I Mechanika (PMM), vol. 64(5), pp. 747-754. Russian Academy of Science, (in Russian), 2000.
Dignath, Florian; Hermle, Markus and Schiehlen, Werner: Smart Structures in Robotics. In: Smart Structures and Structronic Systems (Gabbert, Ulrich and Tzou, Horn-Sen, eds.), pp. 33-40. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001.
Dignath, Florian; Eberhard, Peter and Fritz, Axel: Analytical Aspects and Practical Pitfalls in Technical Applications of AD. In: Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms -- From Simulation to Optimization (Corliss, George; Faure, Christele; Griewank, Andreas; Hascoet, Laurent and Naumann, Uwe, eds.), pp. 127-132. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2002.
Dignath, Florian: Optimization of Controlled Machine Tools with Parallel Kinematics. In: Advanced Driving Systems (Maißer, Peter and Tenberge, Peter, eds.), pp. 261-270. Chemnitz, 2002. First International Symposium on Mechatronics.
Eberhard, Peter; Dignath, Florian and Kübler, Lars: Parallel Evolutionary Optimization of Multibody Systems with Application to Railway Dynamics. Multibody System Dynamics, vol. 9, pp. 143-164, 2003.
Breuninger, Christian and Dignath, Florian: Optimization of a Reconstructed Middle Ear Using an Evolution Strategy. In: Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (Bahte, K.U., ed.), vol. 2, pp. 2213-2217. Elsevier, 2003. Proceedings of the Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics.
Dignath, Florian: Zur Optimierung mechatronischer Systeme mit nichtdifferenzierbaren Kriterien. No. 1031 in VDI-Fortschritt-Berichte, Reihe 8, VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2004.
Dignath, Florian; Liu, Xiufei and Zheng, Qinghua: Dynamic Behavior of Guideway Switch Beams. In: MAGLEV'2006 The 19th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives (Schach, Rainer and Witt, Michael, eds.), vol. 2, pp. 685-691. Technical University of Dresden, 2006.
Liu, Xiufei; Zheng, Qinghua and Dignath, Florian: Simulation des mechanischen Verhaltens der Weiche unter Berücksichtigung der nichtlinearen Kinematik des Stahlbiegeträgers. In: 7. Dresdner Fachtagung Transrapid (Schach, Rainer, ed.), pp. 463-473. Technical University of Dresden, 2007.
Hägele, Nora and Dignath, Florian: Simulation von Erschütterungen bei Fahrzeugvorbeifahrt. In: 7. Dresdner Fachtagung Transrapid (Schach, Rainer, ed.), pp. 367-383. Technical University of Dresden, 2007.
Dignath, Florian; Theuer, Gerhard and Hartmann, Wolfgang: Druckdichtigkeit des Transrapidfahrzeugs. In: 7. Dresdner Fachtagung Transrapid (Schach, Rainer, ed.), pp. 293-309. Technical University of Dresden, 2007.
Dignath, Florian and Zheng, Qinghua: Transrapid Vehicles: Effects of Aerodynamics on the Internal Pressure and the Structure of the Carriage Body. In: Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Railway Research - Towards a Global Railway. Seoul, Korea, 2008.
Monaco, Sandro and Dignath, Florian: Structural Deformation caused by Aerodynamic Excitations during the Passing of Maglev Vehicles. In: Proceedings of the VI International Colloquium on: Bluff Body Aerodynamics & Applications. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Milano, 2008.
Hägele, Nora and Dignath, Florian: Vertical Dynamics of the Maglev Vehicle Transrapid. Multibody System Dynamics, vol. 21(3), pp. 213-231, Apr. 2009.
Eberhard, Peter; Breuninger, Christian; Dignath, Florian and Kübler, Lars: Optimization of Mechatronic Systems using the Software Package NEWOPT/AIMS. In: Advanced Design of Mechanical Systems: From Analysis to Optimization: CISM Courses and Lectures (Ambrosio, Jorge and Eberhard, Peter, eds.), vol. 511. Springer, 2009. Chapter 10.
Dellnitz, Michael; Dignath, Florian; Flaßkamp, Kathrin; Hessel-von Molo, Mirko; Krüger, Martin; Timmermann, Robert and Zheng, Qinghua: Modelling and Analysis of the Nonlinear Dynamics of the Transrapid and Its Guideway. In: Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2010 (Günther, M.; Bartel, A.; Brunk, M.; Schöps, S. and Striebel, M., eds.), vol. 17 of Mathematics in Industry, pp. 113-123. Springer, 2012.
Diekmann, Andreas; Dignath, Florian; Scharmacher, Manuel and Zheng, Qinghua: On-board sea state calculation - Data mining at sea. ThyssenKrupp Techforum, vol. 1/2013, pp. 30-35. ThyssenKrupp Techforum, last visited March 18th, 2023, 2013.
Schmid, Patrick; Eberhard, Peter and Dignath, Florian: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a Maglev Vehicle regarding Magnetic Saturation and Guideway Irregularities. In: Proceedings of 8th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems MECHATRONICS. IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), Elsevier, Vienna, Austria, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.665.
Schneider, Georg; Liang, Xin; Dignath, Florian and Eberhard, Peter: Simulation of the Maglev Train Transrapid Traveling on a Flexible Guideway Using the Multibody Systems Approach. In: Multibody Dynamics 2019 (Kecskemethy, Andres and Flores, Francisco Geu, eds.), vol. 53 of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, pp. 503-510. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23132-3_60.
Dignath, Florian; Zheng, Qinghua; Schmitz, Philipp; Liang, Xin; Jin, Hao; Kurzeck, Bernhard and Ronde, Menno: Fast Computable Model of the Levitation and Guidance Control for Multibody Simulation of the Transrapid MAGLEV Vehicle. International Journal of Railway Technology (IJRT). Proceedings of RAILWAYS 2018. Accepted for publication.
Zheng, Qinghua; Dignath, Florian; Schmid, Patrick and Eberhard, Peter: Ride Comfort Transfer Function for the MAGLEV Vehicle Transrapid. International Journal of Railway Technology (IJRT). Proceedings of RAILWAYS 2018. Accepted for publication. Presentation slides online at OPUS DOI: 10.18419/opus-11268, Last visited on March 18th, 2023.
Büker, Karsten; Krüger, Matthias; Tenhumberg, Nils; Domels, Hans-Peter; Grundler, Jonas and Dignath, Florian: Verbundvorhaben Carbon2Chem-L0: Systemintegration - Teilvorhaben thyssenkrupp AG: Schlussbericht gemäß NKBF 98 Nr. 8.2: Laufzeit des Vorhabens: 15.03.2016-31.05.2020. TIB Hannover, DOI: 10.2314/KXP:1794045805, 2020.
Dignath, Florian; Schmitz, Philipp; Zheng, Qinghua; Schmid, Patrick and Eberhard, Peter: Ride Comfort Transfer Function @1000 km/h. In: Book of Abstracts. 1st International Conference on Ultra-High-Speed Transportation -- Research meets Industry, pp. 21-26. Technical University of Munich, 2021. Published online at LRZ , last visited March 18th, 2023.
Schmid, Patrick; Schneider, Georg; Dignath, Florian; Liang, Xin and Eberhard, Peter: Static and Dynamic Modeling of the Electromagnets of the Maglev Vehicle Transrapid. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 57(2), pp. 1-15. DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2020.3039950, 2021.
Schneider, Georg; Schmid, Patrick; Dignath, Florian and Eberhard, Peter: Modeling and Simulation of a High-speed Maglev Vehicle on an Infinite Elastic Guideway. In: Proceedings of the 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on MULTIBODY DYNAMICS (Zelei, J. Kövecses; G. Stépán; A., ed.), pp. 420-431. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Open access, Budapest, Hungary, 2021. DOI: 10.3311/ECCOMASMBD2021-161.
Schneider, Georg; Schmid, Patrick; Dignath, Florian and Eberhard, Peter: Coupled Vehicle-Guideway Dynamics Simulations of the Transrapid with Discretized Levitation Magnet Forces. In: ENOC 2022 - Book of abstracts, pp. 205-214. Lyon, France, 2022. Proceedings of the ENOC 2022, DOI: 10.18419/opus-12412.
Schneider, Georg; Schmid, Patrick; Kargl, Arnim; Liang, Xin; Dignath, Florian and Eberhard, Peter: Simulation of a High-Speed Maglev Train on an Elastic Guideway of Infinite Length. In: MAGLEV 2022, 25th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives. Changsha, China, 2022. Paper No. 13.
Schmid, Patrick; Schneider, Georg; Kargl, Arnim; Dignath, Florian; Liang, Xin and Eberhard, Peter: Modeling of the Transrapid's Electromagnets and the Application to Large Mechatronic Vehicle Models. In: MAGLEV 2022, 25th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives. Changsha, China, 2022. Paper No. 14.
Dignath, Florian; Schmitz, Philipp and Zheng, Qinghua: Computation of Maglev System Response by Transfer Functions. In: Proceedings of MAGLEV 2022, 25th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives. Changsha, China, 2022. Paper No. 15.
Ding, Sansan; Eberhard, Peter; Schneider, Georg; Schmid, Patrick; Kargl, Arnim; Cui, Yong; Martin, Ullrich; Liang, Xin; Huang, Chao; Bauer, Markus; Dignath, Florian and Zheng, Qinghua: Development of new electromagnetic suspension-based high-speed Maglev vehicles in China: Historical and recent progress in the field of dynamical simulation. International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, pp. 97-118. DOI: 10.1002/msd2.12069, 2023.
Kargl, Arnim; Schmid, Patrick; Dignath, Florian and Eberhard, Peter: NMPC-based Control of Overdetermined Systems by the Example of Magnet Control of the Transrapid. In: 11th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics. Lisbon, Portugal, 2023. ID_26_615.
Franza, Fabrizio; Dignath, Florian; Schlüter, Stefan; Geitner, Christian; Voß, Johannes Michael; Schulzke, Timm and Zheng, Qinghua: Experimental Validation of Stationary and Transient Models of a Methanol Demonstration Plant. Chem. Ing. Tech., vol. 96(9), pp. 1268-1280. DOI:10.1002/cite.202400014, 2024.
Kargl, Arnim; Hermle, Mario; Fu, Shanqiang; Zhang, Zhiqiang; Dignath, Florian; Zheng, Qinghua and Eberhard, Peter: Improvement of MPC Strategies for the Magnetic Levitation System. In: Proceedings of Maglev 2024 - The 26th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives, pp. 293-302. Blekinge Institute of Technology and the International Maglev Board, Malmö, Sweden, 2025. Paper No. 27.
Dignath, Florian; Eggl, Elena; Zheng, Qinghua and Eberhard, Peter: Software Suite for Simulation of Maglev Dynamics: TR.Mechatron. In: Proceedings of Maglev 2024 - The 26th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives, pp. 331-356. Blekinge Institute of Technology and the International Maglev Board, Malmö, Sweden, 2025. Paper No. 30.
Breuninger, Christian: Implementierung eines Evolutionsalgorithmus zur Optimierung geregelter Mehrkörpersysteme. Student project STUD-178, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, Dec. 1999.
Shah, Parthiv: Active Suspension Design for Tilting of Railway Vehicles on Curves. Report ZB-118, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, 2000.
Kübler, Lars: Parallelisierung einer Evolutionsstrategie mit Anwendung in der Eisenbahndynamik. Diploma Thesis DIPL-84, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, Oct. 2000.
Volkov, Egor: Konvergenzverhalten deterministischer Optimierungsalgorithmen bei nicht-differenzierbaren Kriterien. Student project STUD-203, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, Jul. 2001.
Stiller, Christina: Semi-aktive Schwingungsdämpfung durch optimale neuronale Regelung. Student project STUD-204, Institute A of Mechanics and Institute B of Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Feb. 2002.
Zhang, Wei: Non-differentiable Functions in the Optimization of a Hexapod Robot. M.Sc. thesis DIPL-92, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, Apr. 2002.
Breuninger, Christian: Optimierung der Kontaktbedingungen von Mittelohrimplantaten. Diploma Thesis DIPL-94, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, May 2002.
Hägele, Nora: Vertikaldynamik der Magnetschwebebahn Transrapid unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fahrwegdynamik. Diploma Thesis DIPL-112, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart, Sep. 2006.
Monaco, Sandro: Structural Vibrations of the Carriage Body Cell caused by Dynamic Pressure Load. Master thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Facolta di Ingegneria, 2007.
Flaßkamp, Kathrin: Analyse der nichtlinear gekoppelten Lateraldynamik der Magnetschwebebahn Transrapid. Diploma thesis, Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Paderborn, Feb. 2008.
Krüger, Martin: Vertikaldynamik der Magnetschwebebahn Transrapid unter Berücksichtigung der nichtlinearen Magnetcharakteristik. Diploma thesis, Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Paderborn, Mar. 2008.
Timmermann, Robert: Analytische und experimentelle Untersuchung der Tragmagnetregelung des Transrapid im nichtlinearen Arbeitsbereich. Diploma thesis, Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Paderborn, Oct. 2008.
Figini, Andrea: Verfication of the Compatibility of Soft Guideways for the Maglev Vehicle Transrapid. Master thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Facolta di Ingegneria Industriale, 2008.
Vornehm, Andreas: Reglersynthese für ein dezentral geregeltes Linearmotorsystem. Master thesis, Mechatronics, Reutlingen University, 2012.
Schmid, Patrick: Development of New Control Concepts for the Magnetic Levitation System of the Transrapid. Master thesis, Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (former Institute B of Mechanics), 2018.