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Team & advisors

The people behind the team

A student team forming under RoboTUM. We are advised by researchers at TU Munich, and we learn from the established RoboCup teams Bit-Bots Hamburg and THMOS Tsinghua.

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Team leads

Advisors

Scientific guidance from TU Munich and the chairs that support us.

  • Philipp Radecker

    Philipp Radecker

    Scientific supervision, TUM

    Chair of Applied Mechanics, TUM, with day-to-day scientific supervision of the team.

  • Prof. Dr. Johannes Betz

    Prof. Dr. Johannes Betz

    Autonomous Vehicle Systems, TUM

    Founder of the TUM Autonomous Motorsport team and winner of the Indy Autonomous Challenge 2021.

  • Prof. Dr. Daniel Rixen

    Prof. Dr. Daniel Rixen

    Chair of Applied Mechanics, TUM

    Research on walking control of humanoid robots, and member of the board of MIRMI.

Join the team

Build a humanoid that plays football

The team stays deliberately small: eight to ten people. Almost every decision is still open, so you don't inherit someone else's architecture, but you choose how your part is solved and how far you take it.

That only works with people who are genuinely invested and can commit real time. In exchange, you compete with us long before Nürnberg.

Two team members kneeling either side of the humanoid robot in Lederhosen, in front of Munich's New Town Hall

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What you get

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    Real competitions, not just simulation

    Your work has to perform on the pitch, against other teams and in front of a referee, not in theory or a simulator.

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    Trips together

    We travel as a team: to tournaments across Europe and as far as Korea.

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    Events worth going to

    Team events, trade fairs and public shows where the robot, and you, are on stage.

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    Germany's largest student robotics initiative

    A place in RoboTUM with more than 150 members, and the European ESRA network behind it.

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    Work that can count twice

    Theses, student projects and practical courses can be built around your module, together with the chairs supervising us.

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Find your subteam

Nothing here is fixed. If you want to work on something that is not on the list, tell us and we will look at it.

Software

  • Perception

    Ball, goals, lines and robots, in real time.

  • Localization

    Where am I on the field?

  • Behaviour & Motion

    Tactics, roles, decisions, walking, passing.

  • Simulation

    Train new tricks and moves.

  • Ops & Infra

    Build, deploy, network, security, simulate robot.

Management

  • Sponsoring & Outreach

    Partners, funding, companies.

  • Social Media & Events

    Content, shows, trade fairs.

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The practical side

Experience
No RoboCup experience needed.Nobody here has done this before either. We are all learning it on the way.
Who
Any degree, any semester.Students from TU Munich and Munich's other universities.
Time
Around 15 hours a week or more.Planned around lectures, lighter during exam periods.
Skills
Python or C++ helps; ROS 2 you can learn with us.Hardware and electronics people are just as welcome as coders, and so is anyone strong on sponsoring, media, film, design, writing or running events.
Where
Lab and workshop at Garching Forschungszentrum.Robots, tools and workspace are provided. You bring the ideas.
Season
Something on the calendar all year, Nürnberg in 2027.Sponsored internal events, competitions in Germany and across Europe (Austria, Rome) and international trips as far as Korea. There is always an event to travel to, and one to win.

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How to apply

To apply, fill out the application form at RoboTUM, the student robotics initiative we are part of.

Application form

If you have questions first, write to info@fcisar.de.

Your contact

Bastian Steinlein

Co-founder & team lead

Happy to talk about joining the team, which area would suit you and what a semester with us looks like.

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