Contact

David Seiferth
M.Sc.
E-mail:david.seiferth@tum.de

Projects

  • Robustness and Stability Analysis of a critical flight controller for an eVTOL Demonstrator
  • Development of a Modular, Safety Driven and Scalable System Architecture for Unmanned Air Vehicles
  • SAGITTA Research Demonstrator
  • Vibration Reconstruction of Flight Test Data

Lectures

Publications

[14] D. Seiferth, J. Diepolder, R. Afonso, F. Holzapfel , "Probabilistic mu-Analysis Using Mapped Uncertainties" , in Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2021, 2021. [doi]
[13] G. García, D. Seiferth, V. Meidinger, D. Dollinger, P. Nagarajan, F. Holzapfel , "Conduction of Mission Task Elements within Simulator Flight Tests for Handling Quality Evaluation of an eVTOL Aircraft" , in Proceedings of the AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum , 2021. [doi]
[12] D. Seiferth, R. Afonso, F. Holzapfel, M. Heller, "Reduced Conservatism Proof of the Balanced MIMO Gain and Phase Margins", in 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020. [doi]
[11] D. Seiferth, F. Holzapfel, M. Heller, "Evasive Maneuvers of Optionally Piloted Air Vehicles For Three-Dimensional Geofencing", in Proceedings of the AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 2020. [doi]
[10] D. Seiferth, M. Landkammer, M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, "Automatic Safe Area Detection In Three-Dimensional Airspace", in Proceedings of the AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, 2019. [doi]
[9] D. Seiferth, C. Blum, M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, "Distance Determination Between WGS84 Coordinates: An Assessment of Approximation Methods for Reduced Computational Complexity", in Proceedings of the ION 2019 Pacific PNT Meeting, 2019. [doi]
[8] D. Seiferth, B. Grüter, M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, "Fully-Automatic Geofencing Module For Unmanned Air Systems In Two Dimensional Space", in AIAA SciTech Forum, 2019. [doi]
[7] B. Grüter, D. Seiferth, M. Bittner, F. Holzapfel, "Emergency Flight Planning using Voronoi Diagrams", in AIAA SciTech Forum, 2019. [doi]
[6] D. Seiferth, M. E. Kügler, M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, "In-Flight Verification of a model-based designed Ground Controller for an innovative Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)", in 2018 Flight Testing Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, 2018. [doi]
[5] D. Seiferth, M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, "Automatic Safe Area Detection for novel Unmanned Air Vehicles", in IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, and Robotics (ICCAR), 2018. [doi]
[4] M. E. Kügler, D. Seiferth, M. Heller, F. Holzapfel, "Real-Time Monitoring of Flight Tests with a Novel Fixed-Wing UAV by Automatic Flight Guidance and Control System Engineers", in IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, and Robotics (ICCAR), 2018. [doi]
[3] D. Seiferth, R. Kuchar, M. Heller, "Model-based Design and Real Live On-Runway Testing of a Ground Controller for a novel diamond-shaped Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)", in 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017. [doi]
[2] D. Seiferth, M. Heller, "Testing and Performance Enhancement of a model-based designed Ground Controller for a diamond-shaped Umanned Air Vehicle (UAV)", in 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2017. [doi]
[1] D. Seiferth, G. Chowdhary, M. Mühlegg, F. Holzapfel, "Online Gaussian Process Regression with non-Gaussian Likelihood", in 2017 American Control Conference (ACC), 2017. [doi]

Supervised Student Thesis

[7] T. Coloun. Development, Implementation and Identification of a real-time fuel slosh model using CFD Data, 2020.
[6] V. Fafard. Analytic Derivation of Linear State Space Models and Linear Open-Loop Analysis For Transition Vehicles, 2020.
[5] G. Diaz Garcia. Planning, Conduction and Evaluation of Simulator Flight Tests for an eVTOL Air Vehicle, 2020.
[4] Y. Chen. Development of an Automatic Geofencing Algorithm In Three Dimensional Space of Future Air Vehicle, 2019.
[3] V. Wöhrl. Airspeed Sensor Fault Handling in small UAVs: An Approach By Controlling Thrust Via Fixed Power Setting, 2019.
[2] M. Steidle. System Identification of a Transition Vehicle in Wing-Born Flight, 2018.
[1] M. Landkammer. Design and Development Of An Automated Safe Area Detection Algorithm In Three-Dimensional Space, 2018.