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

• 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 WS2011/12

• Echtzeitsysteme by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll, Dr. Christian Buckl (ECTS: 6.0, SWS: 3V+2Ü)
• Industrial Embedded Systems by Dr. Alexander Walsch (ECTS: 2.0, SWS: 1V)
• Grundlagen der Computer Vision by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Darius Burschka (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 3V)
• Maschinelles Lernen by Prof. Dr. Patrick van der Smagt, Dipl.-Inf. Christian Osendorfer
• Robotik by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Darius Burschka, Susanne Petsch, M.Sc. (ECTS: 6.0, SWS: 3V+2Ü)
• Sensorgeführte Roboter by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd Hirzinger (ECTS: 1.0, SWS: 1V)
• ShanghAI Lectures by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll, Emmanuel Carlos Dean León, Ph.D., Manuel Giuliani, M.Sc. (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2V+1Ü)
• Virtuelle Physik by Dr. Dirk Zimmer (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2V+1Ü)
• Planning Techniques for Robotic Applications by Dr. Ulrike Thomas (ECTS: 3.0, SWS: 2V+0Ü)
• Perlen der Informatik 3 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll (ECTS: 0.0, SWS: 2V+2Ü)

Lab Courses WS2011/12

• Praktikum Microcontroller Programming by Dipl.-Inf. Michael Geisinger. (ECTS: 10.0, SWS: 6)

Seminars WS2011/12

• Hauptseminar Bussysteme in den Bereichen Automotive, Avionik und Industrie- und Gebäudeautomatisierung
  by Dipl.-Inf. Stephan Sommer (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Hauptseminar Human-Robot Interaction by Manuel Giuliani, M.Sc., Andre Gaschler M.Sc. (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Hauptseminar Dynamic Heart Modelling by Artashes Mkhitaryan, M.Sc (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)

For more information, see the list at TUMonline.

Downloads

• OpenTL
  A general-purpose tracking library
• Robotics Library
  Open source software in robotics
• EasyLab (in German)
  Model-driven development of embedded software