Klaus Schmidt

About Klaus SchmidtPermalink

My research aims to make complex autonomous and cyber-physical systems predictable, reliable, and trustworthy. Through the ACTiVE Lab, I focus on autonomous driving and connected mobility by integrating real-time communication, control, and trajectory planning to enable dependable operation in safety-critical environments. In parallel, my work on Discrete Event Systems, Control and Optimization provides the formal foundations needed to model, analyze, and reconfigure event-driven systems. Together, these two directions bridge theory and practice to deliver systems that are not only intelligent, but also time-predictable and verifiable.

Research AreasPermalink

ACTiVE Autonomous Driving • Vehicle Connectivity • Embedded Real-time Systems and Networks

Discrete Event Systems, Control and Optimization Supervisory Control • Fault Diagnosis • Optimal Control • Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation Systems

Education and EmploymentPermalink

Education

2005: Ph.D. in Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany .
Thesis title: “Hierarchical Control of Decentralized Discrete Event Systems – Theory and Application”.

2002: Diploma in Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany .
Thesis title: “Synthesis of State Feedback for Linear Discrete Systems over GF(2) by Means of the Polynomial Matrix Method”.