Technische Universität München Department of Informatics Robotics and Embedded Systems
 
 

Robotics and Embedded Systems

 
The Robotics and Embedded Systems group was formed in August 2001. Its primary mission is research and education of machines for perception, cognition, action and control -- extensively construed. It 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;
  • 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 an tool chains.

More specific research topics include, but are not limited to, algorithms (e.g. for collision avoidance and path planning), computer architecture for embedded systems, graphics and simulation using the latest rendering devices, motor control, machine learning, natural and spoken language, robot programming languages and controllers up to synthetic biology, statistical algorithms for computer vision.

Our research is done in the form of projects by one or two staff members and their undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students. Some of the projects are part of larger research efforts, e.g. in the form of work-packages of international consortia. We encourage and support our students to do part of their research abroad to get involved in international networks.

Research at the group is sponsored by a number of government agencies and a spectrum of national and international industrial companies. Sponsors include the German National Science Foundation DFG, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, the Commission of the European Union and the State of Bavaria. Companies include Bayer AG, Festo AG, RTL Television, and several others.

Our goals for teaching are to (i) 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; (ii) to contribute to TUM s high-quality BS degree programs in Computer science that enables graduates to be successful in the highly competitive technology industries; (iii) to offer high-quality courses for our Master of Science degree in Computer Science that prepares students to contribute to the advancement of the state of the art in computing in industry -- and to succeed in our Ph.D. programs in Computer Science.

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.

We also offer a great number of interesting subjects for Bachelor, Master, and Diploma Theses at any one time.

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