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Wel­come to the Auto­mat­ic Con­trol Group

Our main interest is the design, analysis, simulation and implementation of data-driven control and navigation algorithms for autonomous systems such ground or aerial robots.

On our web pages, you will find information about us, our research and our teaching activities.
You can also find opportunities for open positions and open thesis topics.

Ac­counce­ments/News

New IEEE RA-L pa­per, “VDS-Nav: Volu­met­ric Depth-Based Safe Nav­ig­a­tion for Aer­i­al Ro­bot­s–Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap”

We are excited to share our latest IEEE RA-L paper, “VDS-Nav: Volumetric Depth-Based Safe Navigation for Aerial Robots–Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap” VDS-Nav: A novel navigation paradigm that enables aerial robots to safely navigate using linear velocities and yaw rates inferred directly from a sequence of depth images, eliminating the need for pre-trained latent space encoders.

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New RAT Mem­ber - Dr. Alp­er Ye­gen­o­glu

Since July 2025, Dr. Alper Yegenoglu has joined the RAT Group. With his strong background in machine learning and neuromorphic computing, he will support RAT's research and teaching for the next 3 years. Welcome!

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New RAT Mem­ber - Vi­kas Chid­ananda, M.Sc.

Since June 2025, Vikas Chidananda, M.Sc. has joined the RAT Group as a PhD Student. He will work within the EU Horizon Project SPEAR, where we will work on morphable robots with soft elements and on how symmetries of systems can be used to enhance learning of robot control policies. Welcome!

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Organizational and Administrative Issues

Dorothea Hermann
Room: P1.7.14
Tel.: +49 5251 60-1692
E-Mail: dorothea.hermann@uni-paderborn.de
Contact
Postal Address Universität Paderborn
Automatic Control Group, EIM-E
Warburger Strasse 100
33098 Paderborn
Room: P1.7.14.1
Tel.: +49 5251 60 1691
Fax: +49 5251 60 1964
E-Mail: erdal.kayacan[at]upb.de