This is the first winter school within the SeaClear project and is designed as an interdisciplinary forum addressing challenges common to environmental robotics. The program focuses on real-world deployment constraints, including perception in degraded underwater conditions, grasping and manipulation of unstructured debris, and planning and control under uncertainty, as well as strict limits in communication, compute, and energy.

“Marine robotics can be a key enabler to understanding the current scope of environmental pollution and a piece of the puzzle to the recovery of the oceans,” says Dr.-Ing. Stefan Sosnowski from the TUM Chair of Information-oriented Control. “With this winter school, we want to share our experiences and get together with like-minded researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest developments. This global problem requires a global community to collaborate.”

The format combines lectures and tutorials with short participant pitches to foster exchange across disciplines and career stages, with a strong emphasis on insights from real-world field deployments.

The winter school targets late-stage master’s students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers and is limited to 40 participants.

Details on the winter school program and application can be found at: https://www.ce.cit.tum.de/itr/events/winterschool/

Further information about the SeaClear2.0 project is available at: https://www.seaclear2.eu/