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.

Research Assistants

Noa Sendlhofer

Ruiheng Jiang

Sebastian Burmester

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

Jannis Reichenstein, 2026

Bachelor Theses

Christopher Golling, 2025, A Sequencing Framework for Timeline-Based Multi-Robot Choreographies

Fjodor Lundgren, 2025

Jan Kamm, 2026

Janis Weyrich, 2025

Jonathan Nowack, 2026

Nicolas Fischer, 2026

Noa Sendlhofer, 2026

Ruiheng Jiang, 2026

Sebastian Burmester, 2026

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

Aloha Churchill, 2026

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