Thomas Bierling

Research Interests

• Flight Control
• Nonlinear Adaptive Control
• Modeling and Simulation

Lectures

• Betreuung Vorlesung Nonlinear Adaptive Control: SS12
• Skripterstellung zur Vorlesung Nonlinear Adaptive Control

Publications

• Bierling T., Mühlegg M., Holzapfel F., Maier R.,
  • "Reference Model Modification for Robust Performance Conservation of Model Reference Adaptive Controllers", AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Boston, 2013 (submitted for review)
• Bierling T., Höcht L., Merkl C., Holzapfel F., Maier R.,
  • "Similarities of Hedging and L1 Adaptive Control", CEAS EuroGNC Conference, Delft, 2013 (accepted)
• Bierling T., Höcht L., Holzapfel F., Maier R., Wildschek A.,
  • "Comparative Analysis of MRAC Architectures in a Unified Framework", AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Toronto, 2010
• Geiser M., Xargay E., Hovakimyan N., Bierling T., Holzapfel F.,
  • "L1 Adaptive Augmented Dynamic Inversion Controller for a High Agility UAV", AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Portland, 2011
• Baur S., Annaswamy A., Bierling T., Höcht L., Holzapfel F.,
  • "Adaptive Control of a High Agility Model Airplane in the Presence of Severe Structural Damage and Failures", CEAS: Conference on Guidance Navigation and Control, München, 2011
• Wang J., Bierling T., Höcht L., Holzapfel F., Klose S., Knoll A.,
  • "Novel Dynamic Inversion Architecture Design for Quadrocopter Control," CEAS: Conference on Guidance Navigation and Control, München 2011
• Achtelik M., Bierling T., Höcht L., Wang J., Holzapfel F.,
  • "Adaptive Control of a Quadcopter in the Presence of large/complete Parameter Uncertainties," AIAA infotech@Aerospace, 2011
• Wang J., Bierling T., Achtelik M., Höcht L., Holzapfel F., Zhao W., Go T.H.,
  • "Singularity Free Dynamic Inversion Control of a Quadcopter," AIAA infotech@Aerospace, 2011

Student Theses Supervised

Diploma Theses / Master Theses

• Schatz S., "Constrained adaption with steady-state and transient performance guarantees", Master Thesis, November 2012
• Mühlegg M., "Development of Concurrent Learning Adaptive Path Controller for Generic Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle", Diplomarbeit, Juni 2012
• Goldenberg F., "Design and Development of an Emergency Automatic Pilot for the Hydroptere", Diplomarbeit, Februar 2011
• Baur S., "Simulation and Adaptive Control of a High Agaility Model Airplane in the Presence of Severe Structural Damage and Failures", Diplomarbeit, December 2010
• Achtelik M., "Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of a Quadrocopter", Diplomarbeit, July 2010
• Gmati A., "Comparative Study on FXLMS and Armarkov Algorithms for Active Vibration Control with Application to Satellites", Diplomarbeit, December 2009
• Filippi M., "L1 Adaptive-Control and Model-Reference-Adaptive-Control: Simulation, Analysis, Evaluation", Diplomarbeit, December 2009
• Surinowitsch S., "Model Based Development of an Adaptive Flight Controller with Focus on Safety Critical Software Development according to DO 178-B", Diplomarbeit, December 2009

Semester Theses / Bachelor Theses

• Schatz S., "Quadcopter Rate, Attitude and Position Control - MRAC and Dynamic Inversion Approaches", Bachelor Thesis, April 2012
• Geiser M., "L1 Adaptive Control of a High Agility UAV with a Large Number of Control Devices", Semesterarbeit, Februar 2011
• Knoblauch M., "Adaptive Attitude Control of a Quadrocopter in the Presence of Input Saturation", Semesterarbeit, November 2010
• Mühlegg M., "Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Approach with Background Learning Based Neural Network Adaptive Augmentation", Semesterarbeit, September 2010
• Wei D. T., "Model Reference Adaptive Control for SISO-Systems", Semesterarbeit, August 2010
• Raffler T., "Aufbau eines UAV-Erprobungsträgers für die Flugregelung, sowie Implementierung und Flugtests linearer Reglerstrukturen", Semesterarbeit, December 2009