Prof. Dr. techn. Gerhard Elsbacher

Head of TTZ Unmanned Flight Systems
Room:
K309
Subject Area:
AI-supported Aeronautical Engineering and Product Development
Faculty:
Fakultät M
Vita
Since October 2023 Head of the Technology Transfer Center (TTZ) Unmanned Flight Systems in Manching
Since 2022 Professor at THI: Research Professor in the field of AI-supported aerospace engineering and product development
2005 - 2021 MBDA Deutschland GmbH and MBDA Group International
- 2019 – 2021 Operations Director Germany: Member of the Board of MBDA Germany and, at the Group level, "Director Engineering Capability & Governance"
- 2014 – 2019 Operations Director Germany: Responsible for development, production, and quality management, and a member of the Board of MBDA GE
1997 – 2005 EADS/LFK Guided Missile Systems GmbH, Germany
- 2005 – 2013 Vice President of Subsystem Development for Missiles and Weapon Systems
- 2003 – 2005 Head of the Flight Control, System, and Real-Time Simulation Department
- 1997 – 2002 Development Engineer in the Flight Control and System Simulation Department
1993 – 1997 Technical University of Vienna: Contract Assistant at the Institute for Flexible Automation, Dissertation: "Automation of Design Tasks with a Holistic Knowledge-Based Approach"
1987 – 1992 Technical University of Munich: Studied Electrical Engineering, with a focus on Automation Technology in Automation Engineering
Publications
2025
- B. Salamat, G. Elsbacher and A. M. Tonello "Energy Shaping Control in Underactuated Robot Systems with Underactuation Degree Two," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3534688.
2024
- B. Salamat, D. Bencic, G. Elsbacher, C. Seidel and A. M. Tonello „Investigating Integral Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Asymptotic Stability in Underactuated Mechanical Systems“ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 9, Issue 1, January 2024.
- B. Salamat, G. Elsbacher, S. -S. Olzem and A. M. Tonello “Global Multi-Phase Path Planning through High-Level Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2024.
- S. Zieher, E. Olcay, K. Kefferpütz, B. Salamat, S.-S. Olzem, G. Elsbacher, H. Meeß “Drones for automated parcel delivery: Use case identification and derivation of technical requirements, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives” Volume 28, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101253.
2023
- B. Salamat, G. Elsbacher and L. Belzner “Model-Free Distributed Reinforcement Learning State Estimation of a Dynamical System Using Integral Value Functions,” IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, February 2023.
- S. -S. Olzem, B. Salamat, T. Kienast, T. A. Drouven and G. Elsbacher ”Aircraft Conceptualization and Analysis by Flight Simulation,” 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115814.
- B. Salamat, A. Yaghmaei, G. Elsbacher, A. M. Tonello and M. J. Yazdanpanah “An Innovative Control Design Procedure for Under-Actuated Mechanical Systems: Emphasizing Potential Energy Shaping and Structural Preservation” IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, September 2023.
2022
- B. Salamat and G. Elsbacher “Centralized Control in Networks of Underactuated Nonidentical Euler–Lagrange Systems Using a Generalised Multicoordinates Transformation,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 58311-58319, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3178606.
- B. Salamat and G. Elsbacher “Steering a Swarm of Large-Scale Underactuated Mechanical Systems Using a Generalized Coordinates Transformation”. Aerospace 2022, 9, 702. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9110702