Meet the People Involved!

At Way of Water, we are a team of passionate engineers, researchers, and innovators dedicated to pushing the boundaries of swarm robotics and autonomous systems. Our work is fueled by a shared passion: innovating robotic systems by blurring the lines between technology and artistic expression.

Focus Project 2024/2025

Daniel Gelfenbaum

Fjodor Lundgren

Jan Kamm

Janis Weyrich

Jonathan Nowack

Noa Sendlhofer

Ruiheng Jiang

Sebastian Burmester

Master Theses

Simon Frech, 2025, Trajectory generation and optimization for a USV swarm for collision avoidance and safe exit plan

Bachelor Theses

Christopher Golling, 2025, Design of Motion Primitives with Transitions for UASVs

Semester Projects

Ilyas Seckin, 2024: Developing a Coordinated Kinetic Manipulation Framework for Water-Based Quad-Thruster Robotic Swarms

Simon Frech, 2024, Applying the Fossen Model and the Extended Kalman Filter for Model-Based State Estimation in Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Apprentices

Scaling to 25 robots, Jan 2025:

Lorin Wunderlich

Elina Fey

Jannis Stürm

Emile van Doornick

Noah Weisstanner

Julian Willi

Leo De Genua

Nils Achermann

Lead Researchers

Aswin Ramachandran   

Raffaello D’Andrea  

Additional Participants

Matthias Müller

Daniel Wagner