Philippe Rudolph
MSc Student in Robotics & Aerospace · TUM · Controls, Estimation, Rocketry
Education
Technical University of Munich
MSc Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence & MSc Aerospace
Student Council of Aerospace and Geodesy — Oct 2022–present
Co-host & audio engineer, podcast "On Air – Actually Rocket Science"
1st place — Robotics Hackathon 2022
2nd place — TUM Science Hackathon 2022
Technical University of Munich
BSc Aerospace Engineering
Luisen-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
Abitur & French Baccalaureate — Top of Class
Work & Research
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Vision-Based State Estimation for Extraplanetary Exploration
Munich
- —Literature review of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) methods
- —Extended VIO-based state estimation pipeline for UAV navigation in C++ and ROS2
WARR Rocketry
Project, Controls & Software Lead
Munich
- —Leading 60+ students to build Germany's first student-built bi-liquid TVC Hopper
- —Developed Geometric Controller, INDI and online RTI NMPC trajectory optimizer
- —Full software stack in C++ with ROS2 wrapper
- —Thrust curve estimation tool and high-fidelity Simulink model
AVILUS
Testing Engineer
Munich · Aerospace startup (~50 employees), certified dual-use drones
- —Co-developed MATLAB OOP Model-in-the-Loop (MiL) testing toolbox
- —Designed and automated MiL test cases in MATLAB/Simulink
- —Modeled sensors for ground detection; analyzed flight data with Python
Institute of Flight System Dynamics, TUM
Research Assistant
- —Co-developer of Online 3D Trajectory Generation tool for UAVs
- —Co-authored two published papers
Teaching Experience
Control and Simulation of Rocket-Hopper Demonstrator — TUM
Automatic Control Engineering — TUM
Basic Mathematics & Differential and Integral Calculus — TUM
Skills
Programming
Frameworks
Hardware
Other
Languages & Interests
Languages
Interests
Climbing / Bouldering · Music production & piano · Reading (favourite: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Publications
Mbikayi et al. (2024). "Online Deterministic 3D Trajectory Generation…" Aerospace 11(2):157.
doi:10.3390/aerospace11020157 ↗Mbikayi et al. (2025). "Relative kinematics for a jerk-level trajectory generation system." CEAS Aeronautical Journal.
doi:10.1007/s13272-025-00861-y ↗