RoboCup German Open 2026
At the RoboCup German Open 2026 in Cologne, the effort we put into our new competition robot Athena paid off. Not only did we avoid any hardware failures - which had been an issue during recent events - but we were even able to score autonomy points again.
We still had to deal with the suboptimal ROS 2 middleware by introducing custom optimizations to existing frameworks such as Nav2 and Fast-LIO-SLAM, as well as pruning all non-essential network traffic. These efforts, however, enabled us to demonstrate the potential of our extensive sensor setup during the mapping run by submitting a consistent point cloud containing 5.6 million colored points.
We are looking forward to further expanding our autonomous capabilities for the world championship in Korea, and we are aiming for our best result with Athena yet.
PhD Students: Aljoscha Schmidt, Frederik Bark, Stefan Fabian
Master Students: Aaron Wickert, Dishant Dishant, Finn Winter, Frangelo Acampora, Marek Daniv
Bachelor Students: Anas Ezzudin, Vladislav Praznik
