Ongoing Theses

We are always searching for good students and have many good opportunities. However, we are also open to suggestions by students as long as they touch the topics relevant to intelligent systems. > Click here for Offered Topics / Angebotene Themen < Note that these Theses are only for TU Darmstadt students who can directly contact Team Members for more information. For exceptional external students, we offer Theses as well, these need to contact Jan Peters by jan.peters@tu-darmstadt.de first. Here is the list of currently ongoing theses:

StudentAdvisorTypeTopic
Jan MackensenDorothea KoertM.Sc.A Human-Centered Approach for AI-Aided Anomaly Detection in Time Series
Zhiyuan HuJoe WatsonM.Sc.An Inference-based Approach to Reinforcement and Imitation Learning with Diverse Demonstration Data
Marleen SinselDorothea KoertB.Sc.AI-Aided Pointing Gesture Detection for Human-Robot-Interaction
Ruiyong PiVignesh Prasad, Sven SchultzeM.Sc.Mapless Social Robot Navigation
Sabin GrubeSnehal JauhriM.Sc.Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and 3D Vision for Dual-arm Robotic Tasks
Fabian HahneVignesh PrasadB.Sc.Learning Human-Robot Interaction with Gaussian Processes HSMMs
Felix NonnengießerAlap Kshirsagar, Boris Belousov, Prof. Gemma RoigM.Sc.Visuotactile Sensing for In-Hand Object Pose Tracking
Arne BacksteinVignesh PrasadB.Sc.Temporal Latent Space Modelling using Hidden Markov Models
Sebastian MüllerKai Streiling (FB3), Max Stasica (FB3), Jan PetersM.Sc.Visual illusions in sensorimotor control – a reinforcement learning study
Janik SchöpperDorothea KoertB.Sc.Situational Adaptive Autonomy in a Shared Workspace
Zeyuan SunRupert Mitchell, Jan Peters, Heinz KöpplM.Sc.Self Expanding Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
Hannes MittwollenSuman Pal, Jan HämmelmannB.Sc.Detection and 6D-pose estimation of objects using their CAD-Models
Marcel MittenbühlerAhmed Hendawy, Carlo D'Eramo, Georgia ChalvatzakiM.Sc.Lifelong Robot Learning with Pretrained Multimodal Models
Denis AndrićAn Thai Le, Georgia ChalvatzakiM.Sc.Learning Symplectic Manifold Of Dynamical Systems
Joshua JohannsonOleg ArenzM.Sc.Bipedal Locomotion on Bolt
Jonas RingdorfDavid Rother from IASM.Sc.Mixed-Motive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Hannah WielandDorothea KoertM.Sc.Situational Autonomy Adaptation in Human Robot Interaction
Yasemin GoeksuAlap Kshirsagar, Oliver HahnM.Sc.Self-supervised Learning for Robotic Visuomotor Skills
Marc SaghirFelix KaiserB.Sc.Ensemble Methods for Visual Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing Settings
Qiao SunJoao Carvalho from IAS, An Thai Le from IASM.Sc.Geometry-Aware Diffusion Models for Robotics
Lu LiuMichael Drolet from IAS, Oleg Arenz from IASM.Sc.Learning Latent Embeddings for Locomotion
Lorenzo TozziDavide Tateo, Carlo D'EramoM.Sc.Dynamic Tiles for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jonathan KinzelNico Bohlinger, Daniel PalenicekM.Sc.On-robot Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion
Fabian DamkenExternal Thesis at Vector InstituteM.Sc.Learning Admissible and Monotone Heuristics for A*
Haoran DingJan Peters and Leonel RozoM.Sc.Safe Flow-based Robot Motion Policies
Philip HirschleAndras Gabor Kupcsik (BOSCH), Anh Vien Ngo (BOSCH), Jan PetersHonor's ThesisScalable foundation model robot policy
Junyi ChenAlap KshirsagarB.Sc.Object Hardness Classification Using a Vision-Based Tactile Sensor
Martin SteinbornSuman Pal from IASM.Sc.Multi-Person Pose Tracking Using Dynamically Gated Similarities
Max SiebenbornAditya Bhatt, Maximilian Tölle and Boris BelousovM.Sc.Distilling Motor Skills To A Humanoid Robot Through Imitation Learning
Florian VogtDaniel PalenicekM.Sc.Investigating bottlenecks of CrossQ's sample efficiency
Tim HenzeJan Peters from IAS, Bastian Bischoff from BoschM.Sc.Enhancng Multi-Modal Foundation Model Training via Image Captioning
Rolf GattungTim Schneider from IAS, Kai Ploeger from IAS, Niklas Funk from IASM.Sc.Tactile Pole Balancing
Bjarne FreundDavide TateoB.Sc.Isaac sim integration for Mushroom RL
Nick StriebelNiklas Funk, Michael Drolet, Joao CarvalhoM.Sc.Bimanual Imitation Learning
Paolo MaglianoDavide Tateo from IAS, Raffaello Camoriano from PoliToM.Sc.SafeLoco: Safe Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Locomotion
Zongwei ZhangMichael Drolet from IAS, Firas Al-Hafez from IAS, Sebastian Hirt from TU Darmstadt, Oleg Arenz from IASM.Sc.Reinforcement Learning for Exoskeleton Control
Sebastian ZachKay Hansel and An Thai Le from IASM.Sc.Reactive Motion Generation through Probabilistic Dynamic Graphs
Marius ZöllerKay Hansel and An Thai Le from IASM.Sc.Enhancing Smoothness in Policy Blending with Gaussian Processes
Yi LiAlexandre Chapin, Liming Chen, Emmanuel Dellandrea from LIRIS, Tim Schneider from IASM.Sc.Self-supervised learning of a visual object-centric representation for robotic manipulation
Jiahui ShiJunning HuangM.Sc.Hybrid Force-Impedance Control for Robot Manipulators
Haris CavkicSuman Pal from IAS, Aiswarya Menon from IASM.Sc.Flow Matching for Industrial Motion Planning: Learning Trajectory Distributions for Real-World Applications
Vojin VlačićCristiana Mirandade Farias, Alap Kshirsagar, Tim SchneiderM.Sc.Active Exploration for Bimanual Grasping
Khrystyna RudAlap Kshirsagar, Oliver HahnM.Sc.Self-supervised Learning for Robotic Visuomotor Skills
e.g., Sam SampleAiswarya Menon from IAS, Suman Pal from IAS, Changqi Chen? from IASB.Sc.e.g., Reinforcement Learning in Gold Fish Water Babbling
Janis LenzTheo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Tim SchneiderM.Sc.Integration of Vision and Tactile Sensing for Robotic Insertion Tasks using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tristan JacobsMaximilian Toelle, Daniel Palenicek, Theo Gruner, Tim SchneiderM.Sc.Benchmarking of Generalist Robot Policies

Ongoing IP Projects

TopicStudentsAdvisor
Learning to throw paper planesAnsh PrakashKai Ploeger, Alap Kshirsagar
Super Fast Multi-Task Reinforcement LearningArtur Zelik, David MasloubAhmed Hendawy, Firas Al-Hafez
Real-Time Deformable Object Instance Segmentation and TrackingJiahong Xue, Yu Deng, Teng CaoBerk Gueler from IAS, Yufeng Jin from PEARL
Blending Deep Generative Models using Stochastic OptimizationJulian Ferrer RodriguezKay Hansel and Niklas Funk from IAS
Training Robots to Play BadmintonChristian BialasAlap Kshirsagar
VLM Humanoid: AI-Powered Robotics for Next-Gen Human-Robot InteractionFei LongAiswarya Menon from IAS, Suman Pal from IAS, Changqi Chen? from IAS
AutoPlan: Autonomous Gearbox AssemblyKeqi ZengAiswarya Menon from IAS, Suman Pal from IAS, Arjun Datta? from IAS
AutoPaint: Automatic Path Planning for High-Precision Robotic Spray PaintingJannis Neus[
Building a Test Bench for Tactile Slip DetectionThomas Ellenberger, Faris Begic, Florian Mach, Paul List, Timo KolbeTim Schneider and Niklas Funk from IAS, Janosch Moos and Omar Elsarha from IMS