Prof. Dr. techn. Gerhard Elsbacher

Since April 2025 Member of the team of professors at the Doctoral School of THI

Since October 2023 Head of the Technology Transfer Center (TTZ) Unmanned Flight Systems in Manching

Since 2022 Professor at THI: Research Professor in the field of AI-supported aerospace engineering and product development

2005 - 2021 MBDA Deutschland GmbH and MBDA Group International

• 2019 – 2021 Operations Director Germany: Member of the Board of MBDA Germany and, at the Group level, "Director Engineering Capability & Governance"
• 2014 – 2019 Operations Director Germany: Responsible for development, production, and quality management, and a member of the Board of MBDA GE 

1997 – 2005 EADS/LFK Guided Missile Systems GmbH, Germany

• 2005 – 2013 Vice President of Subsystem Development for Missiles and Weapon Systems
• 2003 – 2005 Head of the Flight Control, System, and Real-Time Simulation Department
• 1997 – 2002 Development Engineer in the Flight Control and System Simulation Department 

1993 – 1997 Technical University of Vienna: Contract Assistant at the Institute for Flexible Automation, Dissertation: "Automation of Design Tasks with a Holistic Knowledge-Based Approach"

1987 – 1992 Technical University of Munich: Studied Electrical Engineering, with a focus on Automation Technology in Automation Engineering

2025

• B. Salamat, G. Elsbacher and A. M. Tonello "Energy Shaping Control in Underactuated Robot Systems with Underactuation Degree Two," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3534688.

2024

• B. Salamat, D. Bencic, G. Elsbacher, C. Seidel and A. M. Tonello „Investigating Integral Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Asymptotic Stability in Underactuated Mechanical Systems“ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 9, Issue 1, January 2024.
• B. Salamat, G. Elsbacher, S. -S. Olzem and A. M. Tonello “Global Multi-Phase Path Planning through High-Level Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2024.
• S. Zieher, E. Olcay, K. Kefferpütz, B. Salamat, S.-S. Olzem, G. Elsbacher, H. Meeß “Drones for automated parcel delivery: Use case identification and derivation of technical requirements, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives” Volume 28, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101253.

2023

• B. Salamat, G. Elsbacher and L. Belzner “Model-Free Distributed Reinforcement Learning State Estimation of a Dynamical System Using Integral Value Functions,” IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, February 2023.
• S. -S. Olzem, B. Salamat, T. Kienast, T. A. Drouven and G. Elsbacher ”Aircraft Conceptualization and Analysis by Flight Simulation,” 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115814.
• B. Salamat, A. Yaghmaei, G. Elsbacher, A. M. Tonello and M. J. Yazdanpanah “An Innovative Control Design Procedure for Under-Actuated Mechanical Systems: Emphasizing Potential Energy Shaping and Structural Preservation” IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, September 2023.

2022

• B. Salamat and G. Elsbacher “Centralized Control in Networks of Underactuated Nonidentical Euler–Lagrange Systems Using a Generalised Multicoordinates Transformation,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 58311-58319, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3178606.
• B. Salamat and G. Elsbacher “Steering a Swarm of Large-Scale Underactuated Mechanical Systems Using a Generalized Coordinates Transformation”. Aerospace 2022, 9, 702. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9110702