Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Phillip Kronthaler

Professional work experience

03/2022 - 06/2024
Systems- and Software-Engineer - STIHL Tirol
Functional software developer for robotic lawn mower
10/2014 - 02/2022
Research Assistant - UMIT TIROL
Research and teaching in mechatronics and electrical engineering
03/2012 - 09/2014
Student assistant - UMIT TIROL
Laboratory and teaching activities at the Institute of Automation and Control Engineering
04/2009 - 09/2009
Hardware developer - Kathrein Austria GmbH

Education

10/2014 - 10/2022
Dr. techn. - UMIT TIROL
Doctoral Programme Engineering Sciences
10/2012 - 09/2014
Dipl.-Ing. - UMIT TIROL and LFU-Innsbruck
Mechatronics
10/2009 - 09/2012
BSc. - UMIT TIROL and LFU-Innsbruck
Mechatronics

Teaching (faculty internships etc.)

01/2024 - present
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School
Control Engineering I, Control Engineering II, Advanced Control Engineering I, Advanced Control Engineering II, Industrial Control Engineering
10/2014 - 02/2022
UMIT TIROL
Electronics (3rd semester BSc) [3 ECTS], Model design and simulation (4th semester BSc) [1.5 ECTS], Simulations in control engineering (6th semester BSc) [2.5 ECTS], Control engineering 2 (1st semester MSc) [3 ECTS], Control engineering laboratory (2nd semester MSc) [0.5 ECTS]

Competitive Research Award

Board membership with significant responsibilities

10/2025 - present
- - Member at Mechatronik Plattform
12/2024 - present
- - Advisory board member at Campus Tirol Motorsport (Formula Student)
07/2024 - present
- - Advisory board member at Standortagentur Tirol | Cluster Mechatronics

Research monographs

Kronthaler: Optimization of Handling Processes by Means of Model Based Control Engineering, Doctoral Dissertation, UMIT Tirol - Private University, May, 2022

Peer reviewed academic/professional meeting proceedings

Auer, Kronthaler, Woittennek: Optimalsteuerungsentwurf für ein elastisch gekoppeltes Flächenportal mit Vergleich zu Standardverfahren, IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, online, Februar, 2021.
Kronthaler, Woittennek: Schwingungsreduktion durch Trajektorienplanung: Eine Vergleichsstudie von flachheitsbasierten Methoden und Trajektorienfiltern, IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, Lienz, ¨ Osterreich, Februar, 2020.
Kronthaler, Woittennek: Adaptive Impedance Control as a Tool for Force Regulation of Pick-and-Place Units in the Semiconductor-Industry, IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, Vienna, Austria, September 04-06, 2019.
Kronthaler, Woittennek: Model based control of a high precision dual gantry platform with elastic cross coupling, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Munich, Germany, August 20-24, 2018.
Kronthaler, Bachler, Woittennek: Force Regulation for Pick-and-Place Units by Use of Adaptive Impedance Control, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Kohala Coast, Hawai’i, USA, August 27-30, 2017.
Kronthaler, Woittennek: Modellbasierte Regelung eines hochgenauen Flächenportals mit zwei asynchron arbeitenden Portalschlitten unter Berücksichtigung von elastischen Kopplungseffekten, VDI Fachtagung Mechatronik, Dresden, Germany, March 09-10, 2017.

Supervised bachelor theses

Bachlechner Sebastian (2025): Ball-on-Beam - Optimierung einer Low Cost Regelungstechnikübung
Slyvka Pavlo (2025): Entwicklung und Regelung eines Ball-in-Tube-Versuchsstands mit reversierbarem Lüfter

Supervised master theses

Berer Peter (2025): Integration of heat pumps into an electro-thermal microgrid system from a control perspective
Domić Mišel (2025): Modellbasierte Regelung eines Ball-on-Beam-Versuchsstands mit unterschiedlichen Antriebskonzepten