Team Berlin

Welcome to our Autonomous Car Project!

“Spirit of Berlin” is a project of the Artificial Intelligence Group, directed by Prof. Raul Rojas, at Freie Universitaet Berlin.

This Video shows our autonomous car controlled with an iPhone - powered by Appirion, a spin-off of the AI group.

Team Berlin

Team Berlin is our entry to the 2007 Urban Grand Challenge Competition. We are one of the semifinalists selected by DARPA (see original map of participants and map of semifinalists). The core of the team are researchers and students of Freie Universität Berlin working together with our partners from the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (IAIS), and Rice University in Houston, Texas and the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (Mexico)

We have been building autonomous robots since 1998. Our group is the two-time world champion and five times European champion in robotic soccer. Our vehicle is up and ready with drive-by-wire technology. Its name is: “Spirit of Berlin”. See it driving (WMV) 84MB | wmv

The Team 2007

Team Leaders: Raúl Rojas, Javier Rojo

Fabian Wiesel, Tinosch Ganjineh, Miao Wang, Ketill Gunnarsson, Mark Simon, Frederik Zilly, Fabian Ruff, Lars Wolter, Neven Santrač, Arash Sarkohi, Benjamin Jankovic, Fritz Ulbrich, David Latotzky, Gretta Hohl, Bastian Hecht, Thomas Wisspeintner(Fraunhofer IAIS), David Dröschel (FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg), Günther Lange, Frank Havlak (Rice University)