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

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.
Oct 11, 2024	Our paper, Sensor-Based Safety-Critical Control using an Incremental Control Barrier Function Formulation via Reduced-Order Approximate Models, is now available as a pre-print on arXiv.
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.
Aug 15, 2022	I will visit the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where I will work with Dr. Annaswamy, on adaptive control for safety-critical systems.
May 05, 2022	Happy to announce that our paper Nonlinear Model Following Control Design for a Hypersonic Waverider Configuration will be presented at the CEAS EuroGNC 2022 in Berlin.
Sep 01, 2021	I presented our paper Towards a Control-Centric Modelling and Simulation Framework for Hypersonic Glide Vehicles at the German Aeronautics and Space Congress (DLRK) 2021 in Bremen.
Dec 01, 2019	I will begin my academic journey as a Research Associate and PhD student at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), focusing on the guidance and control of highly nonlinear hypersonic systems.
Nov 27, 2019	We present two papers at the IEEE RED UAS Workshop: A Mission Planning and Task Allocation Framework for Multi-UAV Swarm Coordination and Development of a Neural Network-Based Adaptive Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Controller for a Tilt-Wing VTOL Aircraft.
Oct 01, 2019	I graduated with a distinction from Cranfield University with an MSc. in “Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics & Control”. I am honoured to have received the “Course Director’s Prize” for outstanding overall performance.

Recent Publications

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},
}

Pre-print

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

Johannes Autenrieb, and Hyo-Sang Shin

arXiv:2410.08096 [eess.SY], Oct 2024

arXiv Bib

@article{autenrieb2024-ax,
  title = {Sensor-Based Safety-Critical Control using an Incremental Control Barrier Function Formulation via Reduced-Order Approximate Models},
  author = {Autenrieb, Johannes and Shin, Hyo-Sang},
  journal = {arXiv:2410.08096 [eess.SY]},
  year = {2024},
  month = oct,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08096},
}

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},
}