Christian Bettstetter – Professor, Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Klagenfurt

Circular patterns in swarmalator systems

Published by Christian Bettstetter

We employ the swarmalator model to make a group of entities align in a self-organized way along one or more circles.

May 30, 2025

Publications, Videos

Self-fulfilling prophecies: What causes a bank to fail?

Published by Christian Bettstetter

We talk about self-fulfilling prophecies when something we have predicted comes true as a result of our conscious and unconscious actions. Jack Bryson, [a doctoral student and] university assistant...

June 27, 2024

Interviews, Projects

Graduates receive awards for their work on swarm robotics

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Judith Wieser and Melisa Midžan were honored for their bachelor and master theses on robot swarms for search and collect missions.

December 12, 2023

Videos

Interference by drones to ground users

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Aerial drones connected to cellular networks can affect the throughput of common cell phone users. System-level simulation results were presented at an ACM MobiSys workshop earlier this week.

June 23, 2023

Projects, Publications

Award for excellence in teaching

Published by Christian Bettstetter

The University of Klagenfurt has honored exceptional commitment and quality in teaching with its “Lehrepreis.” The award recipients are Nilüfer Aydin, Christian Bettstetter, Andreas Bollin, and Sabrina Gärtner.

November 27, 2022

Awards, Teaching

Hayat named “rising star” in networking and communications

Published by Christian Bettstetter

The annual list Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications recognizes ten up-and-coming female researchers to honor their great career start. This year’s list features Samira Hayat, doctoral graduate...

August 28, 2022

Awards, Career

Drones in cellular networks

Published by Christian Bettstetter

A new project investigates the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in 5G networks and proposes a hybrid connectivity solution with Wi-Fi. The work is led by Aymen Fakhreddine and...

June 8, 2022

Projects

Teams of robots that don’t run out of energy

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Let’s imagine a large region affected by an earthquake that needs to be combed for missing persons. Because buildings remain at risk of collapsing, this is a task that...

October 6, 2021

Featured, Interviews, Projects, Publications

Offloading computation to 5G networks: Helping drones to improve their autonomous navigation

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Commercial drones usually come equipped with modest on-board computing power. Consequently, their speed and agility are somewhat limited when they use their cameras like eyes to navigate in space....

March 19, 2021

Drones, Projects, Publications

Drones that sync and swarm

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Scientists of the doctoral school "Networked Autonomous Aerial Vehicles" implemented a self-adaptive swarm of drones and showcased it in Klagenfurt's new drone hall, one of the largest and most...

December 5, 2019

Drones, Prototypes, Videos

Using cellular networks for drones

Published by Christian Bettstetter

It might soon become common for drones to transport goods and people, monitor disaster zones, and bring various forms of relief to areas that are difficult to access. Which...

September 20, 2019

Drones, Publications

Unmanned aerial vehicle communications: Opportunities and challenges

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Wireless communications is essential for many applications with commercial drones. Omid Semiari interviewed Christian Bettstetter about this exciting topic at the interface of communications and robotics for the latest...

December 11, 2018

Drones, In a Nutshell, Interviews, Press Coverage

“Drones are here to stay. Get used to it.”

Published by Christian Bettstetter

This statement was the title of a TIME article, which was included in the magazine’s special report on “The Drone Age”. We asked Christian Bettstetter to tell us what...

October 2, 2018

Drones, Interviews, Press Coverage

Packages delivered by air: Drones as delivery service

Published by Christian Bettstetter

What has travelled by road to reach us until now could be delivered by drones in the future. This has many advantages: Poor rural transport infrastructure or persistent congestion...

January 12, 2018

Drones, Interviews, Press Coverage

Deadlocks in the synchronization of oscillators

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Certain oscillator networks suffer from deadlocks that prevent them from synchronizing. We derived the likelihood for such constellations in star graphs and found that they also occur in random...

December 1, 2020

Publications, Synchronization

Robots that sync and swarm: A proof of concept in ROS 2

Published by Christian Bettstetter

The swarmalator model for systems in which synchronization and swarming are coupled is implemented and studied for the first time in a technical system.

September 20, 2018

Prototypes, Synchronization, Videos

One time for all: Synchronizing time in drone swarms

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Wherever several clocks tick simultaneously, it is tricky to get them all to display precisely the same time. This can be a challenge for drone swarms that are airborne...

February 14, 2018

Interviews, Projects, Publications, Synchronization

Synchronization with phase rate correction

Published by Christian Bettstetter

Synchronization algorithms based on the theory of pulse-coupled oscillators are evaluated on programmable radios. It is experimentally demonstrated that the stochastic nature of coupling is a key ingredient for...

April 4, 2016

Projects, Publications, Synchronization

Wireless connectivity in airplanes

Published by Christian Bettstetter

The aviation industry is interested in wireless solutions for in-plane connectivity to improve safety and reduce airplane cost and weight. Ultra-wideband (UWB) seems to be a suitable technology for...

April 21, 2021

Projects, Publications, Wireless

UWB connectivity in industrial environments

Published by Christian Bettstetter

The connectivity of ultra-wideband (UWB) devices is studied in an aircraft assembly hangar and a production hall. These measurements are the first ones reported for off-the-shelf UWB devices in...

April 2, 2018

Projects, Publications, Wireless

October 11, 2019

Workshop on scientific writing

The Mobile Systems Group of the University of Klagenfurt held a workshop on scientific writing. They discussed the typical...