📌 Key facts
- IDP Project at the TUM Chair for Strategy and Organization!
- When: Start anytime. Applications are open!
- How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV and a grade report.
- 📌 Key facts
- 🚀 What the Project Is About
- 🔍 Who We Are
- 🎯 Your team’s responsibilities during your IDP
- 🎓 What we look for
- ❓ Why join us?
- 📝 How to Apply
🚀 What the Project Is About
Drones are rapidly becoming an integral part of various industries, from logistics and agriculture to emergency response. At the Chair for Strategy and Organization, we are currently running a research project exploring new applications of autonomous drones in dynamic, real-world environments.
We are looking for motivated students who want to help us shape the future of autonomous drone systems.
In this IDP, you will tackle one of the most exciting challenges in informatics and robotics: enabling drones to operate autonomously, make intelligent decisions based on sensor data, and navigate safely in complex environments.
🔍 Who We Are
We are an interdisciplinary team of three researchers with a strong passion for drones and autonomous systems:
- Christian Wimmer (PhD candidate, TUM School of Management): Background in Business Administration and Consumer Science, researching AI, emotions, and entrepreneurship. Past experience at Siemens, Deloitte, and Brückner Group. Leads projects on AI adoption and startup team dynamics.
- Andrea Capogrosso (PhD candidate, TUM School of Management): Background in Applied and Engineering Physics, focused on hydrogen innovation, renewable energy, and AI. Leads a large research project on hydrogen adoption in Bavaria. Experienced in bridging science and industry.
- Gianluca De Carlo (PhD candidate, Computer Science Engineer at Sapienza University Rome, currently in Cambridge): Expert in data mining, big data computation.
We are open to turning strong ideas into real products and are especially looking for students with an entrepreneurial mindset and passion for drones. You will be closely supervised by our team, combining deep technical knowledge and strategic thinking.
🎯 Your team’s responsibilities during your IDP
- Drone Detection and Recognition: Develop and train models that can detect flying drones using image databases
- Trajectory Prediction: Build algorithms that can estimate and forecast the flight paths of flying objects based on sensor input
- Autonomous Navigation: Program a simulated drone to autonomously fly to a given GPS coordinate while avoiding static or moving obstacles
This IDP is fully software-based, and no hardware is involved. We will use Gazebo, a powerful robotics simulator, to develop and test all components.
🎓 What we look for
We are assembling a team of 4 students:
- Students from Informatics or similar
- Can work proactively and independently
- Have a good knowledge of English
- Be interested in autonomous systems, drones, or robotics
- Have strong coding skills (e.g. Python, C++, ROS is a plus but not required)
❓ Why join us?
- Real-world impact: Work on a highly relevant topic involving autonomous systems and intelligent navigation
- Skill development: Learn hands-on simulation, path planning, sensor integration, and AI-driven logic
- Interdisciplinary collaboration: Collaborate with engineering and strategy researchers
- Future prospects: Build skills highly relevant for careers in AI, robotics, aerospace, and autonomous mobility
- Flexible working style (remote or in-person)
- TUM ecosystem: Gain exposure to TUM's startup environment, connect with our broad network of partner companies from consulting to tech, and benefit from collaboration opportunities tied to our chair's projects
📝 How to Apply
Please send an e-mail to andrea.capogrosso@tum.de. The e-mail should include (1) the CV of each team member, (2) your ideal start date, and (3) your chosen track. We do not need cover letters. Instead, (4) give us two numbers for each team member, rating yourselves from 1-10 on (a) your capability and (b) your willingness to execute the required tasks.