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Felix Brändle

M.Sc.

Research Assistant
Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control

Contact

+49 711 685 66311

Pfaffenwaldring 9
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Room: 3.241

Office Hours

On appointment:

Please contact me via email first to arrange an appointment. The Office Hour will take place in my Webex room

Subject

I'm working in the field of Data-Driven System Analysis and Control, where I look to find system descriptions using data.

Further, I'm working on an autonomously driving e-scooter with the goal of reducing CO2 emissions at the University of Stuttgart.

  1. Journal Articles

    1. Wei, Y., Brändle, F., Liu, W., Xie, Y., Wang, G., Sun, J., & Allgöwer, F. (2026). Robust Data-driven Min-max Model Predictive Control with Unknown-input Observers. Automatica, 189, 113010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2026.113010
    2. Brändle, F., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). A System Parameterization for Direct Data-Driven Estimator Synthesis. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 9, 1225–1230. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2025.3580035
    3. Wanner, J., Brändle, F., & Sawodny, O. (2020). Trajectory planning with obstacle avoidance for a concrete pump using harmonic potentials. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2693

  2. Conference Papers

    1. Meister, D., Strässer, R., Brändle, F., Seidel, M., Bassler, B., Gerber, N., Kautz, J., Rommel, E., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). Path-following model predictive control for autonomous e-scooters. Proc. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05314
    2. Brändle, F., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). Data-driven Estimator Synthesis with Instantaneous Noise. 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 367–372. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312215
    3. Xie, Y., Berberich, J., Brändle, F., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). Data-driven min-max MPC for LPV systems with unknown scheduling signal. 23rd European Control Conference (ECC).
    4. Strässer, R., Brändle, F., Meister, D., Seidel, M., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). Autonomous E-Scooters for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Achievements and Insights from an Experimental Prototype. European Robotics Forum 2025, 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89471-8_1
    5. Brändle, F., Meister, D., Seidel, M., Strässer, R., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). On the effects of angular acceleration in orientation estimation using inertial measurement units. 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 470–476. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151447
    6. Brändle, F., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). A System Parametrization for Direct Data-Driven Analysis and Control with Error-in-Variables. European Journal of Control, 101307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2025.101307
    7. Strässer, R., Seidel, M., Brändle, F., Meister, D., Soloperto, R., Hambach Ferrer, D., & Allgöwer, F. (2024). Collision Avoidance Safety Filter for an Autonomous E-Scooter using Ultrasonic Sensors. Proc. 17th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2024), 58, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.313

  3. Preprints

    1. Brändle, F., & Allgöwer, F. (2026). Robust IMMPC: An Offset-free MPC for Rejecting Unknown Disturbances. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00564
    2. Brändle, F., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). IMMPC: An Internal Model Based MPC for Rejecting Unknown Disturbances. In submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05692
    3. Brändle, F., Chatzikiriakos, N., Iannelli, A., & Allgöwer, F. (2025). Beyond Bounded Noise: Stochastic Set-Membership Estimation for Nonlinear Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00561
  • Lecture Mehrgrößenreglung: SS25
  • Praktikum Konzepte der Regelungstechnik: WS2526
  • Praktikum Einführung in die Regelungstechnik: SS22, SS23, SS24
  • Lecture Einführung in die Regelungstechnik: WS2022, WS2023, WS2024

since 10/2021

 Research Assistant at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart

03/2019  - 09/2021

Master studies in Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart

Master thesis: "Developing a controller for walking
on compliant legs"

10/2015 - 03/2019

Bachelor studies in Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart

Bachelor thesis: "Trajectory planning with harmonic potential functions for manipulators"
09/2015 Abitur at the Remstal-Gymnasium Weinstadt
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