Our new paper on spider locomotion is now out in Arachnology: “Computer-assisted mode of walking detection and manoeuvrability analysis of huntsman spiders”. The study presents a computer-assisted approach to identifying walking modes and evaluating manoeuverability, adding a quantitative… [read more]

On June 26, 2026, our Chair was once again represented at this year's LOIFT (Lehrstuhl-Orientierungs-, Informations- und Forschungs-Tagung) event hosted by the mechanical engineering student union. The event brought together students from all semesters for a day of interaction with faculty members,… [read more]

In their article “Designing AI-Resilient Exams: Error-Correction Assignments in Engineering Education,” Daniel Renjewski and Alexandra Strasser present a new assessment format for higher education. Published in Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, the paper explores how written exams can be redesigned… [read more]

The Chair of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich has launched the new research project HATON, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project is led by PD Dr.-Ing. Daniel Renjewski and conducted in close collaboration with the group of Prof. Syn Schmitt at the… [read more]

Researchers at TUM’s Professorship of Applied Mechanics have developed a new model that helps explain why human-like walking requires the swinging leg to be dynamically “decoupled” from the upper body – an insight that could influence the next generation of humanoid robots and prosthetic devices. [read more]

Last week, about half of our team from the Chair of Applied Mechanics attended the 2nd German Robotics Conference. We had a great opportunity to showcase some of our current research and hardware developments. Our humanoid robot LOLA, although no longer the newest platform, still sparked a lot of… [read more]

We are thrilled to announce the release of SIGULS (signal generator for user-specified laboratory signals), an open-source excitation signal generator for structural dynamics testing. Built around an ESP32-S3 microcontroller and the AD5781 Digital-to-Analog Converter, it offers the user complete… [read more]

Our PhD student, Oliver M. Zobel, has received the Best Paper Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), IMAC Dynamic Substructures Technical Division. The award recognizes the paper “Determining the Optimal Length for Impulse Response Functions Calculated through Time Domain… [read more]

Daniel Rixen gave a keynote presentation on Experimental Substructuring at the 16th Aachen Acoustic Colloquium (24-26 November 2025), where international industry, developers and researchers in the field of NVH and automotive acoustics meet. Great discussions with researchers, developers and… [read more]