Illustration of a drone, a car with sensors and a rescue robot.

Robotics club

The Faculties of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology are pooling their activities in the field of robotics: the aim of the "Robotics AG" is to strengthen this subject area at the university.

General

Signal processing and sensor technology, localization and navigation, control technology and design are just some of the topics that robotics researchers from the four faculties are working on - from different perspectives, but also with many points of contact. These points of contact are to be used to develop joint research projects in the future.

Since 2019, the robotics group has been developing a joint teaching program. For example, the group has been carrying out a joint block week project as part of the Ruhr Master's School since November 2019: "Search and Rescue" - Autonomous robots navigate and map(Prof. Becker, Prof. Röhrig ) in unknown terrain, recognize and classify objects using a camera(Prof. Thiem ) and collect objects to be rescued using a gripper arm(Prof. Liu , Prof. Straßmann ).

Photo with two men. One is holding a drone high above his head and looking up at it. The other is holding the remote control in his hand and is also looking at the drone.

Photo of a student sitting at a computer desk and holding the arm of a Schrenkarm robot with her hand.

Photo of a rescue robot standing next to a life-size dummy on the floor. Behind it on the left are two men with documents looking at the robot. At the back right is a man standing at a table looking into the computer.

Surgical robot with endoscopes and plastic torso in the foreground. The endoscopes are inserted into an opening in the torso. Behind them, two employees at the computer workstation can be seen out of focus.

Photo of a laboratory employee standing on the conveyor belt between two robot gripper arms and holding a remote control in his hand.

Photo from the laboratory for control and regulation technology, process automation, a test setup in focus. Water level recognizable.

Photo of 2 people in a workshop working at a workbench.

Members

member	Subject area	Faculty	Laboratory
Prof. Dr. Andreas Becker	Information Technology - Embedded Systems	Information Technology	Sonnenstraße SON-A -119
Prof. Dr. Yan Liu	Process control and automation	Electrical Engineering	Laboratory for Control Engineering, Process Automation (Sonnenstraße SON-A 105)
Prof. Dr. Christof Röhrig	Computer Science, Robotics	Computer Science, IDiAL	Robotics laboratory of the IDiAL (Otto-Hahn-Straße OHS23-UG-05)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Straßmann		Mechanical Engineering	Sonnenstraße SON-F 007
Prof. Dr. Jörg Thiem (Speaker)	Computer Vision and Robotics	Information Technology	Sonnenstraße SON-A 614

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