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! 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 peters@ias.tu-darmstadt.de first. Here is the list of currently ongoing theses:
| Student | Advisor | Type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haris Cavkic | Suman Pal from IAS, Aiswarya Menon from IAS | M.Sc. | Flow Matching for Industrial Motion Planning: Learning Trajectory Distributions for Real-World Applications |
| Vojin Vlačić | Cristiana Mirandade Farias, Alap Kshirsagar, Tim Schneider | M.Sc. | Active Exploration for Bimanual Grasping |
| Keagan Holmes | Ahmed Hendawy | M.Sc. | Sharing Multimodal Behaviors in Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning through Diffusion Models |
| Mustafa Kamal | Michael Drolet from IAS | M.Sc. | Learning-based Methods for Gait Cycle Phase Prediction |
| Habib Maraqten | Theo Vincent | M.Sc. | Sample-efficient gradient reinforcement learning |
| Matteo Princisgh | Davide Tateo, Joao Carvalho from IAS, Matteo Lupperto from Università degli Studi di Milano | M.Sc. | Learning to Plan |
| Wenbin Sun | Junning Huang, Yichen Cai | M.Sc. | Contact Force Estimation for Robotic Manipulation |
| Shihao Li | Theo Gruner, Puze Liu, and Maik Pfefferkorn | M.Sc. | Relative Entropy Adaptive Domain Randomization |
| David Lang | Cristiana Mirandade Farias, Kay Pompetzki | M.Sc. | Stochastic Skill Blending via Generative Models |
| Ansh Prakash | Joao Carvalho from IAS | M.Sc. | Episodic Flow RL |
| Xiaoqi Zhou | Joao Carvalho, Niklas Funk from IAS | M.Sc. | Bimanual Action Flow |
| Hannah Knodel | Kai Ploeger from IAS | B.Sc. | Investigating the Role of Feedback in Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot Juggling |
| Artur Zelik | Michael Drolet from IAS, Firas Al-Hafez from IAS | M.Sc. | Language-guided Robot Motion Synthesis |
| Jan Gröpper | Claudius Kienle from IAS | B.Sc. | Learning Samplers for Task and Motion Planning |
| Pablo Candelas | Claudius Kienle from IAS | M.Sc. | Reward Shaping for Symbolic Reinforcement Learning |
| Bora Büyükbas | Lucas Schulze, Oleg Arenz | B.Sc. | Open-World Reinforcement Learning |
| Paul Knaußt | Cristiana Mirandade Farias, Kay Pompetzki | M.Sc. | Hierarchical Planning for Object Arrangement |
| Marco Meese | Theo Gruner, Sophie Lueth | B.Sc. | Foundation Models for Actuator Dynamics |
| Faran Ahmad | ClaudiusKienle from IAS | M.Sc. | Learning Symbolic Domain Models with SLMs for Hierarchical Planning |
| Matej Zoltan Suvert | Kay Pompetzki and Cristiana Mirandade Farias from IAS | B.Sc. | Reactive Impedance Control on General Manifolds |
| Julian Ferrer Rodriguez | Kay Pompetzki and Cristiana Mirandade Farias from IAS | M.Sc. | Distribution-Guided Policy Blending for Reactive Motion Planning |
| Noah Becker | Tim Schneider and Kay Pompetzki from IAS | M.Sc. | Prediction and Control of Slip Velocity in Robotic Grippers Using Transformer-Based Fusion of Visuotactile, Image, and IMU Data |
| Fabian Hahne | Cristiana Mirandade Farias, Alap Kshirsagar, Vignesh Prasad | M.Sc. | Vision-Language-Action Models with Intrinsic Motivation |
| Yuxuan Lu | Siwei Ju | B.Sc. | Perception for humanoid loco-manipulation |
| Lukas Müller | e.g., Jan Peters from IAS | B.Sc. | VLA-based Humanoid Loco-Manipulation |
| Lukas Mueller | e.g., Jan Peters from IAS, Tomas Dorf from ETIT | B.Sc. | |
| Lukas Mueller | Siwei Ju | B.Sc. | VLA-based Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Systems |