Field of Work
Today’s aircraft are flying computers. Distributed computing systems guarantee safety and comfort. Their development and safety proof make up 30 to 80 percent of the development costs of an aircraft; especially the failure management of distributed real-time computing systems. Our research is the automation of the design, development, test and certification of avionics systems. Optimal avionics architectures with 10000s of elements are determined with mathematical optimization. Domain specific models are used derive implementations, tests, and certification documents of avionic functions. In addition, the Plug&Fly methods research area is developing the next generation of avionics hardware and software, whoch should be self-configuring and always trying on its own to achieve the safest system state.
Personal Information
Björn Annighöfer (1982, Freiburg i.Br., Germany) studied computer science and engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He did his PhD at the Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering (FST) of the TUHH on "Model-based Architecting and Optimization of Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics". In 2015 he went on as a postdoc at the FST and co-founder of the spin-off company TuTech SYSTAR Innovation. He has been a researcher at the Institute of Aviation Systems (ILS) at the University of Stuttgart since 2017, starting as a junior professor for “Methods of Complex Avionics Systems” and becoming a professor in 2025. Since 2023, he has been Managing Director at the institute. Prof. Annighöfer is a member of the Steering Committee of the international AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) and co-founder of the Workshop for Avionics Systems and Software Engineering (AvioSE).