Johannes Autenrieb

I’m Johannes, an aerospace enthusiast deeply passionate about control theory. I am a Research Scientist and PhD Candidate at the Institute of Flight Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), under the guidance of Prof. Stefan Levedag. My research focuses on advancing aerospace technologies with a particular emphasis on the safe control of nonlinear systems in uncertain environments.

As part of my PhD, I had the privilege of visiting the AAC-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US in 2022-23, where I was supervised by Dr. Annuradha Annaswamy. My research there involved developing control barrier functions for safety-critical and adaptive flight control systems. In 2024, I also visited the Control Group at the University of Oxford, UK, under the supervision of Dr. Jack Umenberger. During my time at Oxford, I worked on robust online optimization algorithms for dynamical systems in uncertain environments.

Before joining DLR, I obtained an M.Sc. degree in Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics and Control from Cranfield University, UK, where I worked on flight control topics for eVTOL air-taxis both in the UK with Rolls-Royce and at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. Prior to that, I earned a B.Eng. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany.

News

Nov 14, 2025	The manuscript, Generalized Intelligence for Tactical Decision-Making: Large Language Model-Driven Dynamic Weapon Target Assignment, is now available as a pre-print on arXiv.
Oct 28, 2025	The manuscript, An Error-Based Safety Buffer for Safe Adaptive Control, is now available as a pre-print on arXiv.
Oct 24, 2025	The manuscript, Auction-Based Responsibility Allocation for Scalable Decentralized Safety Filters in Cooperative Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance, is now available as a pre-print on arXiv.
Oct 10, 2025	The manuscript, A Control Allocation Algorithm for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles with Input Limitations, is now available as a pre-print on arXiv.
Oct 08, 2025	The manuscript, Decentralized CBF-based Safety Filters for Collision Avoidance of Cooperative Missile Systems with Input Constraints, is now available as a pre-print on arXiv.
Aug 15, 2025	Together with an international group of colleagues I’m organising special sessions on *Control Barrier Functions in Aerospace Applications* at CEAS EuroGNC 2026, which will take place in Madrid, May 5–7, 2026. If you’re working on anything related (be it theory, tools, or applications) and are interested in contributing, feel free to reach out!
Jun 17, 2025	The manuscript Quadratic Programming Approach to Flight Envelope Protection Using Control Barrier Functions, is now avaiable in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.
Jun 14, 2025	Our paper, Sensor-Based Safety-Critical Control using an Incremental Control Barrier Function Formulation via Reduced-Order Approximate Models, was accepted and will be presented at the ACC 2025 in Denver, CO.
May 15, 2025	I’m happy to support the robotics community as part of the programme committee for the 13th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2025), taking place December 17–19 at King’s College London. Have a look at the call for papers — it’s a great conference. I’m looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues in London!
Jan 10, 2025	The two papers, A Quasi-LPV Approach for Gain Scheduling Cascaded NDI-Based Controllers for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles and An Iterative Control Allocation Algorithm for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles with Asymmetric Magnitude and Rate Limits, were presented at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2025 in Orlando, FL.
Dec 13, 2024	Our paper, Complementary Filter‐Based Incremental Nonlinear Model Following Control Design for a Tilt‐Wing UAV , is now published in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
Aug 01, 2024	I will visit the Control Group at the University of Oxford, where I will work together with Dr Umenberger on online optimization algorithms.
Apr 25, 2024	Our paper, Flight Control Design for a Hypersonic Waverider Configuration: A Nonlinear Model Following Control Approach, is now published in the CEAS Space Journal.
Sep 15, 2023	Our paper Safe and Stable Adaptive Control for a Class of Dynamic Systems was accepted and will be presented at the IEEE CDC 2023 in Singapore.
Jan 23, 2023	The paper Data Fusion-Based Incremental Nonlinear Model Following Control Design for a Hypersonic Waverider Configuration was presented at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2023 in National Harbor, MD.

Recent Publications

Pre-print

Generalized Intelligence for Tactical Decision-Making: Large Language Model-Driven Dynamic Weapon Target Assignment

Johannes Autenrieb, and Ole Ostermann

arXiv:2511.10207 [eess.SY], Nov 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{autenrieb2025-ax6,
  title = {Generalized Intelligence for Tactical Decision-Making: Large Language Model-Driven Dynamic Weapon Target Assignment},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Ostermann, Ole},
  journal = {arXiv:2511.10207 [eess.SY]},
  year = {2025},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10207},
}

Pre-print

An Error-Based Safety Buffer for Safe Adaptive Control

Peter A. Fisher, Johannes Autenrieb, and Anuradha M. Annaswamy

arXiv:2510.23491 [eess.SY], Oct 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{autenrieb2025-ax5,
  title = {An Error-Based Safety Buffer for Safe Adaptive Control},
  author = {Fisher, Peter A. and Autenrieb, Johannes and Annaswamy, Anuradha M.},
  journal = {arXiv:2510.23491 [eess.SY]},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23491},
}

Pre-print

Auction-Based Responsibility Allocation for Scalable Decentralized Safety Filters in Cooperative Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance

Johannes Autenrieb, and Mark Spiller

arXiv:2510.21546 [eess.SY], Oct 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{autenrieb2025-ax4,
  title = {Auction-Based Responsibility Allocation for Scalable Decentralized Safety Filters in Cooperative Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Spiller, Mark},
  journal = {arXiv:2510.21546 [eess.SY]},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21546},
}

Pre-print

A Control Allocation Algorithm for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles with Input Limitations

Johannes Autenrieb, and Patrick Gruhn

arXiv:2510.08275 [eess.SY], Oct 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{autenrieb2025-ax3,
  title = {A Control Allocation Algorithm for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles with Input Limitations},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Gruhn, Patrick},
  journal = {arXiv:2510.08275 [eess.SY]},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08275},
}

Pre-print

Decentralized CBF-based Safety Filters for Collision Avoidance of Cooperative Missile Systems with Input Constraints

Johannes Autenrieb, and Mark Spiller

arXiv:2510.06846 [eess.SY], Oct 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{autenrieb2025-ax2,
  title = {Decentralized CBF-based Safety Filters for Collision Avoidance of Cooperative Missile Systems with Input Constraints},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Spiller, Mark},
  journal = {arXiv:2510.06846 [eess.SY]},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06846},
}

Journal

Quadratic Programming Approach to Flight Envelope Protection Using Control Barrier Functions

Johannes Autenrieb

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Sep 2025

Bib

@article{autenrieb2025-ax1,
  title = {Quadratic Programming Approach to Flight Envelope Protection Using Control Barrier Functions},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes},
  journal = {Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
  year = {2025},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G009203},
}

Conference

Sensor-Based Safety-Critical Control using an Incremental Control Barrier Function Formulation via Reduced-Order Approximate Models

Johannes Autenrieb, and Hyo-Sang Shin

In 2025 American Control Conference (ACC) , Jul 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{autenrieb2024-ax,
  title = {Sensor-Based Safety-Critical Control using an Incremental Control Barrier Function Formulation via Reduced-Order Approximate Models},
  booktitle = {2025 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Shin, Hyo-Sang},
  year = {2025},
  month = jul,
  pages = {374-381},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11107913},
  doi = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107913},
}

Conference

A Quasi-LPV Approach for Gain Scheduling Cascaded NDI-Based Controllers for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles

Johannes Autenrieb, and Patrick Gruhn

In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum , Jan 2025

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{Autenrieb2025-st2,
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Gruhn, Patrick},
  title = {A Quasi-LPV Approach for Gain Scheduling Cascaded NDI-Based Controllers for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles},
  booktitle = {AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum},
  year = {2025},
  month = jan,
  chapter = {},
  pages = {},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2025-1908},
  url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2025-1908},
  eprint = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2025-1908},
}

Conference

An Iterative Control Allocation Algorithm for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles with Asymmetric Magnitude and Rate Limits

Johannes Autenrieb, and Patrick Gruhn

In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum , Jan 2025

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{Autenrieb2025-st1,
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Gruhn, Patrick},
  title = {An Iterative Control Allocation Algorithm for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles with Asymmetric Magnitude and Rate Limits},
  booktitle = {AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum},
  year = {2025},
  month = jan,
  chapter = {},
  pages = {},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2025-2265},
  url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2025-2265},
  eprint = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2025-2265},
}

Journal

Complementary Filter‐Based Incremental Nonlinear Model Following Control Design for a Tilt‐Wing UAV

Johannes Autenrieb, and Hyo‐Sang Shin

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Dec 2024

Bib HTML

@article{Autenrieb2024-ijrnc,
  title = {Complementary Filter‐Based Incremental Nonlinear Model Following Control Design for a Tilt‐Wing UAV},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Shin, Hyo‐Sang},
  journal = {International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control},
  publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Inc.},
  pages = {},
  month = dec,
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1002/rnc.7743},
  eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rnc.7743},
  url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rnc.7743},
}

Journal

Flight control design for a hypersonic waverider configuration: A non-linear model following control approach

Johannes Autenrieb, and Nicolas Fezans

CEAS Space Journal, Apr 2024

Bib HTML

@article{Autenrieb2024-sj,
  title = {Flight control design for a hypersonic waverider configuration: A non-linear model following control approach},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Fezans, Nicolas},
  journal = {CEAS Space Journal},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  pages = {1--24},
  month = apr,
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1007/s12567-024-00544-0},
  eprint = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12567-024-00544-0},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12567-024-00544-0},
}

Conference

Safe and Stable Adaptive Control for a Class of Dynamic Systems

Johannes Autenrieb, and Anuradha Annaswamy

In 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Dec 2023

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{Autenrieb2023-cd,
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Annaswamy, Anuradha},
  booktitle = {2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
  title = {Safe and Stable Adaptive Control for a Class of Dynamic Systems},
  year = {2023},
  month = dec,
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {5059-5066},
  keywords = {Damping;Missiles;Uncertainty;Stability analysis;Real-time systems;Safety;Quadratic programming},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383779},
  eprint = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10383779},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10383779},
}