Habilitation colloquium of Dr. Viktoriia Grushkovska

On April 29, 2025, Dr. Viktoriia Grushkovska held the habilitation colloquium entitled “Controlling Nonholonomic Systems: From Steering to Motion Planning in Complex Environments”.

In her talk, she reviewed traditional techniques based on Lie bracket theory for motion planning under nonholonomic constraints and introduced a novel approach that provides a unified solution to these challenges and beyond. The presentation included a discussion on future perspectives in the design of control algorithms for nonholonomic systems operating in complex, dynamic environments, where additional challenges arise due to moving targets and obstacles, external disturbances, and limited knowledge of the mathematical models of both the system and the environment.

Viktoriia Grushkovska obtained her PhD from the Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where she is still an external scientific member. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Systems Theory & Automatic Control of the University of Stuttgart, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Würzburg. In 2019 she joined the University of Klagenfurt on a tenure-track position. She received funding of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).