Antoine Pignède received a double degree in electrical engineering and cybernetics from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim in 2016. Since October 2016, he has been a member of scientific staff of the Institute of System Dynamics and Control (SR) at the German Aerospace Center DLR. His research area concerns modeling, simulation and optimization of planetary exploration rovers. In addition to the MMX rover, he is also doing simulations for the development of the DLR Scout rover with rimless wheels.