Our Affiliations

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

Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence
An interdisciplinary master course

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

• Martin Wojtczyk wins Intel Code Breaker Challenge
• EU CORDIS Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) has published the FET Research Roadmaps - Pointing the way to future ICTs.
• EasyKit Workshop on 2009/11/11
  The results of the 3-year project EasyKit will be presented in a workshop that is hosted by Festo Didactic. more...
• Teaching Winter Term 2009/10
  Announcements of lectures, lab courses and seminars are now available. There are still some places available!
• German Workshop on Robotics 2009
  A Software Architecture for Model-Based Programming of Robot Systems slides are now available
• ICRA 2009 Workshop on Open Source Software in Robotics
  The slides from the workshop are now available
• more...

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.

Downloads

• OpenTL
  A general-purpose tracking library
• Robotics Library
  Open source software in robotics

Lectures

• Echtzeitsysteme by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll, Dr. Christian Buckl (ECTS: 6.0, SWS: 3V+2Ü)
• Robotik by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Darius Burschka, Dipl.-Inf. Oliver Ruepp (ECTS: 6.0, SWS: 3V+2Ü)
• Grundlagen der Computer Vision by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Darius Burschka (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 3V)
• Sensorgeführte Roboter by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd Hirzinger (ECTS: 1.0, SWS: 1V)
• ShanghAI Lectures by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll, Manuel Giuliani, M.Sc., Dipl.-Inf. Helmuth Radrich (ECTS: 3.0, SWS: 2V+1Ü)
• Machine Learning by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, Christian Osendorfer, Thomas Rückstieß (ECTS: 6.0, SWS: 3V+2Ü)
• Model-Based Visual Tracking by Giorgio Panin, Ph.D. (ECTS: 3.0, SWS: 2V)

Lab Courses

• Praktikum: Computer Vision for Human Robot Interaction by Giorgio Panin, Ph.D., Dipl.-Ing. Claus Lenz, Thorsten Röder M.Sc. (ECTS: 10.0, SWS: 6)
• Praktikum: Microcontroller Programming by Dipl.-Inf. Michael Geisinger, Jia Huang, M.Sc. (ECTS: 10.0, SWS: 6)
• Praktikum: Medizintechnik in der Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie by Prof. Dr. med. Robert Bauernschmitt, Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Schreiber, Dr. med. Eva Braun, Dr. med. Markus Krane, Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Lange. (ECTS: 4, SWS: 2)

Seminars

• Hauptseminar Bussysteme in den Bereichen Automotive, Avionik und Industrie- und Gebäudeautomatisierung by Dipl.-Inf. Stephan Sommer (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Master Seminar Vision-Based Robot Exploration by Elmar Mair, M.Sc., Juan Carlos Ramirez de la Cruz, M.Sc., (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)
• Hauptseminar 3D Object Recognition and Registration by Chavdar Papazov, M.Sc., (ECTS: 4.0, SWS: 2)