About Us

Our primary mission is research and education of machines for perception, cognition, action and control.

The chair is organized into four research areas:

Human Robot Interaction and Service Robotics including work on the integration of speech, language, vision and action; programming service robots; development of new application scenarios for sensor-based service robots; robot systems for education;

Medical Robotics covering all aspects of manipulator and instrument control for complex surgical procedures, e.g. visualisation of all types of patient data, haptic feedback for delicate handling, skill transfer, shared control, multi-manipulator cooperation;

Cognitive Robotics encompassing a comprehensive area of topics ranging from sensor models by the way of individual sensor processing entities (e.g. for high-speed face tracking) to high-level cognitive skills for navigation, adaptation, learning;

Cyber-Physical / Embedded Systems are investigated with special emphasis on fault tolerance and high availability; special topics are the design of very small redundant systems and the associated software development models and tool chains.

Our goals for teaching are to provide robotics and computer science literacy to a broad spectrum of students starting from high school students to whom we offer our exciting education and entertainment robotics activities. In more detail, our courses include:

Undergraduate Education: Introduction to Computer Science I and II, Seminars on different topics, related exercises, labs.

Graduate Education: Robotics, Real-time Systems, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Digital Signal Processing, and more.

Ph.D. Programs: There is a multitude of opportunities for students to pursue their degree, both in funded programs and on regular staff positions.

Our Affiliations

• Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence
  An interdisciplinary master course
• fortiss Institute
  Top-level research with and for industry
• ECHORD project
  Fostering progress in robotics
• Graduate School of Information Science in Health
  Top level education for information in science in health
• CoTeSys
  Cognition for Technical Systems
• Neuro-IT.net
  A former network of excellence at the interface between robotics and neuroscience
• INI.TUM
  The "Ingolstadt Institute der TU München" is a cooperation between AUDI AG, Technische Universität München and Ingolstadt
• ECCEROBOT
  The project "Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered ROBOT" is developing a completely new type of robot
• Neurovers-IT
  A project to develop "in vitro neuronal networks" as a novel class of "computational device"

News

• 11.04.2012: The PROMELA library for creating and rewriting PROMELA models programmatically is available as open source.
• 26.03.2012: The source code of the Boolean Expression Simplifier library is available as open source.
• 05.03.2012: Have a look at our latest results on geometry-based object grasping.
• 30.08.2011: Our latest human-robot interaction demo of Project JAHIR is again featured HERE and HERE
• 10.07.2011: TUMsBendingUnits wins Festo Logistics Competition - Report on our participation at Robocup 2011 - YouTube-Channel des Teams
• 03.04.2011: RoboCup German Open 2011 - Report on our participation in the Festo Logistics Competition
• 14.02.2011: Research project ECCEROBOT featured on Spiegel Online
• 11.02.2011: European research project RoboEarth featured on IEEE Spectrum
• 08.02.2011: Project JAHIR found on Kinect-Hacks.com
• more...

MA, DA, SEP and BA

• Open Theses

Lectures SS2012

• Einführung in die Digitale Signalverarbeitung by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll; Yang Chen, M.Sc.; Alexander Perzylo, M.Sc (ECTS: 7.0, SWS: 3V+3Ü)
• Bewegungsplanung in der Robotik by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Darius Burschka (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 3V)
• Human-Friendly Robotics by Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin, M.Sc.; (ECTS: 5.0, SWS: 2V+2Ü)
• Perlen der Informatik 4 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll (ECTS: 0.0, SWS: 2V+2Ü)

Lab Courses SS2012

• Master-Praktikum/Lab Course Robot Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling and Control by Emmanuel Dean PhD and Suraj Nair M. Sc (ECTS: 10.0, SWS: 6)
• Praktikum/Lab Course Robot Based Logistics Systems by Dr. Gerhard Schrott (ECTS: 10.0, SWS: 6)
• Praktikum Medizintechnik in der Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie by Dr. Ulrich Schreiber, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)

Seminars SS2012

• Seminar Kognitive Robotik / Cognitive Robotics by Dr. Reinhard Lafrenz ; Dr. Florian Röhrbein; Alexander Perzylo (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Seminar Dynamic Heart Modeling by Artashes Mkhitaryan (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Seminar Computer Vision & Visual Tracking for Robotic Applications by Dr. Claus Lenz, Dipl.-Inf. Sebastian Klose, Dipl.-Inf. Philipp Heise (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Proseminar Robotik und kognitive Systeme by Dr. Reinhard Lafrenz ; Dr. Florian Röhrbein;(ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)

Downloads

• OpenTL
  A general-purpose tracking library
• Robotics Library
  Open source software in robotics
• EasyLab (in German)
  Model-driven development of embedded software
• Boolean Expression Simplifier
  Simplify your boolean expressions