Biography
Nikolaus Vertovec is a DPhil student under the supervision of Kostas Margellos and Sina Ober-Blöbaum. His research is focused on optimization and reachability analysis, with applications focussing on spacecraft trajectory design.
Nikolaus received a Bachelors’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2019. While at ETH, Nikolaus was the avionics lead for the Swiss Academic Space Initiative. After graduating, Nikolaus took on an internship at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, where he worked on the Mars2020 rover.
Interests
- Optimal Control
- Multi Objective Optimization
- Reachability
Education
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DPhil in Engineering Science
Oxford University
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BSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, 2019
ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Experience
Worked on the Mars2020 Rover
GNC Engineer
Designed the Control Systems for a Sounding Rocket
Teaching Assistant
Taught Numerical Methods for second-year bachelor students
Recent Publications
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(2022).
Multi-objective low-thrust spacecraft trajectory design using reachability analysis.
In European Journal of Control, (in press).
(2022).
Safety-Aware Hybrid Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems.
under review.
(2022).
Verification of safety critical control policies using kernel methods.
In ECC22.
Contact
- nikolaus.vertovec@eng.ox.ac.uk
- Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ