Timo Class

Timo Class

Master Student

Technical University of Munich

About Me

I’m a Master’s student in Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence at TUM, passionate about autonomous mobile robots operating in complex, unknown environments. I’m particularly interested in quadrupeds, humanoids, and hybrid robotic systems combining locomotion and manipulation or multi-modal locomotion, and exploring learning-based methods that enable robust real-world autonomy.🤖

Featured Projects

Sim2Real for efficient manipulation policy training

Active
Hiwi Research Project TUM Learning Systems and Robotics Lab
Robotics Reinforcement Learning Sim2Real Photorealistic Simulation Nvidia Isaac Sim

📢 Stay tuned for future updates!

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Imitation Learning for Real-Time Jumping in Quadruped Robots

Active
Semester Guided Research Project TUM Institute for Cognitive Systems
Robotics Imitation Learning Quadruped Robots Unitree Go1

📢 Stay tuned for future updates!

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Dataset-Driven Diffusion Policies for (Bi-)manipulator Imitation Learning

Completed
One-week Hackathon Project TUM Learning Systems and Robotics Lab x Poke and Wiggle
Robotics Imitation Learning Diffusion Models Manipulation

Collected human demonstrations for a LEGO Duplo stacking task using a VR-setup (Metaverse headset), learned Diffusion Transformer Flow policies based …

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DL4SAI - Building TUM in a Day

Completed
Semester Student Project TUM Computer Vision Group
Computer Vision 3D Reconstruction Deep Learning VGGT

A transformer-based pipeline for dense and consistent 3D reconstruction from monocular RGB videos of large-scale real-world scenes.

Education

M.Sc. in Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence

Technical University of Munich

2024 - Present

B.Eng. in Automotive Systems

Esslingen University

2020 - 2024

Experience

Research Assistant

Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab (TUM)

2026 - Present

Munich, Germany

Research & Teaching Assistant

Learning Systems and Robotics Lab (TUM)

2025 - Present

Munich, Germany

I’m working on photorealistic simulation for training robust, real-world manipulation policies and serving as a Teaching Assistant for the Advanced Robot Learning and Decision-Making course.

Intern, Working Student & Undergraduate Student - Bachelor Thesis

Bosch Engineering GmbH

2022 - 2024

Abstatt, Germany

I analyzed and validated terabyte-scale ADAS test drive data, developed, debugged, and virtualized a scalable analysis tool for cloud deployment and designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment. Thesis title: “Fusion of Video Objects and Radar Detections for Automatic High Beam”.

Student Research Assistant

Esslingen University

2021 - 2023

Esslingen, Germany

I developed Sensor Fusion, Planning, and Control algorithms in simulation for an autonomous racecar system and supervised and coordinated student projects.