Thomas Glotzbach

Thomas A. Glotzbach studied electrical engineering with the focus on automation engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda and received his degree in 2001. From 2001 until 2010, he was with the Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, and from 2004 on, he was also a member of the Fraunhofer Application Center System Technology (AST). He received his doctoral degree in 2009 in the area of mission and manoeuvre management for autonomous mobile systems with different levels of autonomy. He participated in the GREX Project in the topics mission planning, control algorithms and control design for cooperative marine robots. In 2010 and 2011, he was with the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal in the framework of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, doing research in the areas of cognitive robotics, cooperative control and navigation of multiple marine robots. From 2011 until 2017, he was back at Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, participating in the MORPH project with a focus on absolute and relative navigation for multiple unmanned marine vehicles with employment in real unstructured, 3D environments by use of acoustic / laser distance measurement and sensor data fusion as well as team mission planning for scenarios without a priori known vehicle paths and event driven planning paradigms. His habilitation thesis is currently under review. Since 2017, he holds the temporary professorship ‘Autonomous Systems and Control Engineering’ at the Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.