ABOUT US

We are a student team and develop Mars rovers with passion!

“FRoST” is short for “Frankfurt Robotics Science Team”.
Professor Karsten Schmidt, head of the Bachelor’s degree course Mechatronics at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, founded FRoST in 2018. Since then, our team has grown and no longer consists only of mechatronics students – we’ve become an interdisciplinary group of 10 to 20 active team members.

Our goals:
Goal#1 Developing a mobile robot platform for international competitions, thus establishing and strengthening international contacts
Goal#2 Generating project topics for students and thereby helping them gain practical experience
Goal#3 Developing new components and systems – contributing to current research


FRoST is always looking for support – personell, donations in kind and financial support. Are you interested? Drop us a line.


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  • FHNW Rover-Träff 2025

    May 2025: 3rd participation in the Rover-Träff at FHNW in Switzerland

    1st Place (out of 6 teams)

  • European Rover Challenge 2024 (ERC)

    SEP 2024: 4th participation in the ERC

    8th Place (out of 27 teams)

  • MAY 2024 2nd participation in the Rover-Träff at FHNW in Switzerland

    2nd Place
    ↳ Best german team

  • APR 2024 Project Lead:
    Jens Rau (M.Sc.)

    Head of Software:
    Lukas Probsthain (M.Sc.)

    Head of Hardware:
    Jonas Steinmann

  • OCT 2023 Project Lead:
    Jens Rau

    Head of Software:
    Valentin Bischof

    Head of Hardware:
    Jonas Steinmann

  • SEP 2023 3rd participation in the European Rover Challenge (ERC2023)

    Overall ranking: 5th place (out of 25 teams)
    ↳ Best german team

  • MAY 2023 1st participation in the Rover-Träff 2023

  • SEP 2022 2nd participation in the European Rover Challenge (ERC2022)

    Overall ranking: 7th place (out of 21 teams)

    Special award: Best Team in Maintenance Task (On-site)

  • AUG 2022 Head of Software: Lukas Probsthain

    Head of Hardware: René Harmann

  • FEB 2022 Qualified for 1st participation in the International Rover Challenge (IRC2022) . Rejection due to COVID.

  • FEB 2021 Project Lead: Lukas Sohlbach (M. Sc.), Max Triller (M. Sc.)

    Head of Software: Lukas Probsthain

    Head of Hardware: Marc-André Weismüller

  • SEP 2020 Qualified for the 2nd participation in the European Rover Challenge (ERC2020). Cancelled due to COVID.

  • OCT 2019 Development start of the ARES rover

  • OCT 2019 Project Lead: Sebastian Sierla (M. Sc.), Evandro Caxala (M. Sc.)

  • SEP 2019 1st participation in the European Rover Challenge (ERC2019)

    Overall ranking: 23th place (out of 40 teams)

  • AUG 2018 – SEP 2018 Development of the Horizon XIX rover

  • MAR 2018 Project Lead: Max Triller (M. Sc.), Sven Erchen (M. Sc.)

  • MAR 2018 Foundation of the Frankfurt Robotics Science Team by Prof. Dr. Karsten Schmidt