Elias Krantz

I am a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering group at KTH, supervised by Prof. Christer Fuglesang, Assoc. Prof. Gunnar Tibert, and Asst. Prof. Huina Mao. My research focuses on advanced control methods for autonomous multi-agent space vehicles, with an emphasis on model predictive control (MPC) and on simulation in both software and on real hardware.

Before joining KTH, I received my MSc in Space Technology from Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in 2018 and worked as a research engineer at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) until 2022. My doctoral work, funded by WASP, is part of the DISCOWER project, which develops novel distributed control and planning strategies for both space and underwater vehicles.

During my PhD, I have played a central role in establishing the KTH Space Robotics Lab and in developing ATMOS, an open-source free-flyer platform that simulates spacecraft dynamics in a 2D plane. Much of my work takes place in this lab, developing and testing these platforms.