Publications

This section of the project website hosts publications in the context of the project Stadt Wien Kompetenzteam für Drohnentechnik in der Fachhochschulausbildung (DrohnFH).

This section of the project website is subject to regular update.

Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Publications

[J1]
e+i2024: Schwaiger, S., Muster, L., Scherl, A., Trivisonne, P., Wöber, W. and Thalhammer, S., Towards full autonomy in mobile robot navigation and manipulation, e+i (Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik), Volume 141, Issue 6, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s00502-024-01261-6
[C1]
EDUCON2025: Wimmer, F., Schwaiger, S. and Fibich, C., Drones in Electronics Engineering and AI-Driven Robotics Courses: Hands-on Lab Concepts, 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), London, United Kingdom, 2025, 5 pgs. DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON62633.2025.11016660
[C2]
IOLTS2025: Fibich, C. and Lovric, L., Leveraging Open-Source Bitstream Documentation for FPGA Soft-Error Robustness Analysis, 2025 IEEE 31st International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), Ischia, Italy, 2025, 7 pgs. DOI: 10.1109/IOLTS65288.2025.11116854

Abstracts & Posters

[A1]
MESS2024: Fibich, C., Horauer, M. and Obermaisser, R., Preliminary Investigation of PVT Effects on Interconnect Faults in SRAM-based FPGAs, Abstract Book of the Microelectronic Systems Symposium (MESS), June 6-7, 2024, Vienna, Austria, pg. 24. [PDF & Poster available on Request]

Bachelor's Theses

[B1]
Catharina Tauss, Software- versus Hardware-in-the-Loop: Eine Analyse anhand der Fluglageregelung eines Quadkopters, Bachelor's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, June 2024
[B2]
Omar Zammar, Design and Evaluation of a Drone Sensor Development Board, Bachelor's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, June 2025
[B3]
Johannes Friedl, Vision Language Model Fine-Tuning for Industrial Image Classification, Bachelor's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, June 2025
[B4]
Cedric Michael Steininger, Höhenregelung einer autonomen Mikrodrohne bei unebenem Untergrund, Bachelor's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, June 2025
[B5]
Nicolai Prodinger, Design and Implementation of an OpenGimbal Drone Development Board, Bachelor's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, August 2025
[B6]
Lilly Schuldhaus, Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a MicroMouse Robot using Time of Flight Distance Sensing, Bachelor's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, August 2025

Master's Theses

[M1]
Joscha Henkenjohann, BEng., Scalable Neural Radiance Fields for Robotics: Scene Partitioning and Mesh Fusion for Large-Scale Environments, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, January 2025. [FHTW EPUB]
[M2]
Roman Stadlhuber, BSc., Localization of Mobile Platforms in Architectural Floorplans, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, March 2025. [FHTW EPUB]. Fulltext available after 2029-08-01.
[M3]
Leonardo Lovric, BSc., Analysis and Demonstration of Single Event Upsets (SEUs) in Configuration Memory of Lattice ECP5 FPGAs: Understanding Fault Effects and Critical Bits, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, June 2025. [FHTW EPUB]. Received the "FHTW Masterarbeitsaward 2024/25".
[M4]
Jonas Berger, BSc., FPGA-based Sensor and Actuator Emulation for Hardware in the Loop Simulation of Embedded Digital Controls Applications, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, June 2025. [FHTW EPUB]
[M5]
Wolfgang Bolz, BSc.,Distributed Hybrid Flocking and Formation Control with Obstacle Avoidance for Fixed- Wing UAV Swarm Task Execution, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, October 2025. [FHTW EPUB -- Thesis not uploaded yet]
[M6]
Daniel Canov, BSc.,ViTSLAM: Robot localization and Mapping using Vision Transformers, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, October 2025. [FHTW EPUB -- Thesis not uploaded yet]
[M7]
Florian Zeinler, BSc.,Vision-Language Maps: A Scalable Dense Semantic SLAM Implementation, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, October 2025. [FHTW EPUB -- Thesis not uploaded yet]
[M8]
Stefan Hieß, BSc.,Hardware in the Loop Simulation of a Drone: From Modeling to Real-Time Implementation, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, November 2025. [FHTW EPUB]
[M9]
Thomas Jamböck, BSc.,Integration of a Mechanically Decoupled Multiple Inertial Measurement Unit (MIMU) System for Enhanced Performance, Master's Thesis, FH Technikum Wien, November 2025. [FHTW EPUB]. Fulltext available after 2030-02-01.

Technical Reports (PDF available on Request)

[TR1]
Christian Fibich, Simon Schwaiger, Florian Wimmer, Drohnentechnik in der Hochschullehre: Überblick über den Stand der Technik, Fachbericht, v1.1, September 2024
[TR2]
Christian Fibich, Simon Schwaiger, Florian Wimmer, IEEE RAS Summer School "EduRob24", Fachbericht, v1.0, September 2024
[TR3]
Christian Fibich, Florian Wimmer, Embsys Drone for ENRICH2025: Documentation, Install and User Guide, Technical Report, v0.4, November 2025

Participation in Public Events

[E1]
October 23, 2024: Participation at the DigiStreet at the Digital Days 2024 at Technisches Museum Wien. See Media section for photos.
[E2]
November 29, 2024: Participation at FH Technikum Wien Open Day. See Media section for photos.
[E3]
March 21-23, 2025: Participation at Wiener Forschungsfest. See here for photos.
[E4]
October 16, 2025: Participation with the Workshop Code & Fly at the Digital Days 2025 at Klima- und Innovationsforum der Stadt Wien.
[E5]
November 28, 2025: Participation at FH Technikum Wien Open Day. See Media section.

Miscellaneous

[M1]
FHTW Newsletter 02/2024: Neues Projekt bringt Drohnen in die Lehre (Archive)
[M2]
FHTW Newsletter 06/2024: Electronics Day: TGM-Schüler*innen erkundeten Studiengänge und Labore der FH Technikum Wien (Archive)
[M3]
FHTW Newsletter 11/2024: Digital Days 2024: FH Technikum Wien verbindet Lehre und Drohnentechnik (Archive)
[M4]
FHTW Podcast: Drohnentechnologie verstehen: Ausbildung und Forschung (#113 Roman Beneder und Christian Fibich) (Transcript Archive)
[M5]
FHTW Newsletter 04/2025: Wiener Forschungsfest 2025: FH Technikum Wien zeigte Lungensimulator, Barrierefreiheits-Sensibilisierung und Drohnentechnik (Archive)