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 |
|---|
| Benedikt Hahner | Joe Watson | M.Sc. | Sim2GP: Bayesian Dynamics Models via Differentiable Physics |
| Jan Mackensen | Dorothea Koert | M.Sc. | A Human-Centered Approach for AI-Aided Anomaly Detection in Time Series |
| Zhiyuan Hu | Joe Watson, Oleg Arenz | M.Sc. | An Inference-based Approach to Reinforcement and Imitation Learning with Diverse Demonstration Data |
| Marleen Sinsel | Dorothea Koert | B.Sc. | AI-Aided Pointing Gesture Detection for Human-Robot-Interaction |
| Ruiyong Pi | Vignesh Prasad, Sven Schultze | M.Sc. | Mapless Social Robot Navigation |
| Sabin Grube | Snehal Jauhri | M.Sc. | Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and 3D Vision for Dual-arm Robotic Tasks |
| Fabian Hahne | Vignesh Prasad | B.Sc. | Learning Human-Robot Interaction with Gaussian Processes HSMMs |
| Felix Nonnengießer | Alap Kshirsagar, Boris Belousov, Prof. Gemma Roig | M.Sc. | Visuotactile Sensing for In-Hand Object Pose Tracking |
| Arne Backstein | Vignesh Prasad | B.Sc. | Temporal Latent Space Modelling using Hidden Markov Models |
| Sebastian Müller | Kai Streiling (FB3), Max Stasica (FB3), Jan Peters | M.Sc. | Visual illusions in sensorimotor control – a reinforcement learning study |
| Janik Schöpper | Dorothea Koert | B.Sc. | Situational Adaptive Autonomy in a Shared Workspace |
| Zeyuan Sun | Rupert Mitchell, Jan Peters, Heinz Köppl | M.Sc. | Self Expanding Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning |
| Dominik Horstkötter | Tim Schneider, Boris Belousov, Alap Kshirsagar | B.Sc. | Learning to Assemble SL-Block Structures from Vision and Touch |
| Hannes Mittwollen | Suman Pal, Jan Hämmelmann | B.Sc. | Detection and 6D-pose estimation of objects using their CAD-Models |
| Marcel Mittenbühler | Ahmed Hendawy, Carlo D'Eramo, Georgia Chalvatzaki | M.Sc. | Lifelong Robot Learning with Pretrained Multimodal Models |
| Noah Farr | Davide Tateo, Georgia Chalvatzaki | B.Sc. | Designing reward functions for robotic tasks |
| Philipp Vincent Ebert | Kai Ploeger | B.Sc. | Learning Latent Dynamics for Control |
| Denis Andrić | An Thai Le, Georgia Chalvatzaki | M.Sc. | Learning Symplectic Manifold Of Dynamical Systems |
| Julian Rau | Niklas Funk | M.Sc. | Scaling learned, graph-based assembly policies |
| Joshua Johannson | Oleg Arenz | M.Sc. | Bipedal Locomotion on Bolt |
| Duc Huy Nguyen | Tim Schneider, Boris Belousov, Alap Kshirsagar | B.Sc. | Simulation of Vision-Based Tactile Sensors |
| Marius Glaser | Paul Jansonnie, Oleg Arenz | B.Sc. | Real2Sim for Play-Doh Manipulation |
| Jonas Ringdorf | David Rother from IAS | M.Sc. | Mixed-Motive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning |
| Hannah Wieland | Dorothea Koert | M.Sc. | Situational Autonomy Adaptation in Human Robot Interaction |
| Frederik Heller | Guillaume Duret, Tim Schneider, Alap Kshirsagar | B.Sc. | Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation |
| Yasemin Goeksu | Alap Kshirsagar, Oliver Hahn | M.Sc. | Self-supervised Learning for Robotic Visuomotor Skills |
| Cheng Qian | JulenUrainDeJesus | M.Sc. | Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Videos |
| Marc Saghir | Felix Kaiser | B.Sc. | Ensemble Methods for Visual Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing Settings |
| Qiao Sun | Joao Carvalho from IAS, An Thai Le from IAS | M.Sc. | Geometry-Aware Diffusion Models for Robotics |
| Lu Liu | Michael Drolet from IAS, Oleg Arenz from IAS | M.Sc. | Learning Latent Embeddings for Locomotion |
| Patrick Siebke | Aditya Bhatt and Maximilian Tölle | M.Sc. | Analysis of Quasimetric Reinforcement Learning |
| Esteban Cosserat | Tim Schneider from IAS, Kay Hansel from IAS, Guillaume Duret from ECL | M.Sc. | Refining 6D pose with tactile sensor |
| Lorenzo Tozzi | Davide Tateo, Carlo D'Eramo | M.Sc. | Dynamic Tiles for Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| Tristan Tisch | Aryaman Reddi from LiteRL | M.Sc. | The Power of Friendship: Dynamic Multi-Agent Reward Sharing |
| Daniel Dennert | Daniel Palenicek | B.Sc. | Diminishing Return of Value Expansion Methods in Offline Model-Based Reinforcement Learning |
| Faran Ahmad | Daniel Palenicek | B.Sc. | Diminishing Return of Value Expansion Methods in Discrete Model-Based Reinforcement Learning |
| Jonathan Kinzel | Nico Bohlinger, Daniel Palenicek | M.Sc. | On-robot Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion |
| Fabian Damken | External Thesis at Vector Institute | M.Sc. | Learning Admissible and Monotone Heuristics for A* |
| Haoran Ding | Jan Peters and Leonel Rozo | M.Sc. | Safe Flow-based Robot Motion Policies |
| Philip Hirschle | Andras Gabor Kupcsik (BOSCH), Anh Vien Ngo (BOSCH), Jan Peters | Honor's Thesis | Scalable foundation model robot policy |
| Junyi Chen | Alap Kshirsagar | B.Sc. | Object Hardness Classification Using a Vision-Based Tactile Sensor |
| Martin Steinborn | Suman Pal from IAS | M.Sc. | Multi-Person Pose Tracking Using Dynamically Gated Similarities |
| Max Siebenborn | Aditya Bhatt, Maximilian Tölle and Boris Belousov | M.Sc. | Distilling Motor Skills To A Humanoid Robot Through Imitation Learning |
| Florian Vogt | Daniel Palenicek | M.Sc. | Investigating bottlenecks of CrossQ's sample efficiency |
| Tim Henze | Jan Peters from IAS, Bastian Bischoff from Bosch | M.Sc. | Enhancng Multi-Modal Foundation Model Training via Image Captioning |
| Rolf Gattung | Tim Schneider from IAS, Kai Ploeger from IAS, Niklas Funk from IAS | M.Sc. | Tactile Pole Balancing |
| Bjarne Freund | Davide Tateo | B.Sc. | Isaac sim integration for Mushroom RL |
| Nick Striebel | Niklas Funk, Michael Drolet, Joao Carvalho | M.Sc. | Bimanual Imitation Learning |
| Topic | Students | Advisor |
|---|
| Visuotactile Shear Force Estimation | Erik Helmut, Luca Dziarski | Niklas Funk, Boris Belousov |
| AI Olympics with RealAIGym | Tim Faust, Erfan Aghadavoodi, Habib Maraqten | Boris Belousov |
| Solving Insertion Tasks with RL in the Real World | Nick Striebel,Adriaan Mulder | Joao Carvalho |
| Hands-on Control | Erik Gattung, Noah Becker | Tim Schneider, Kay Hansel |
| Student-Teacher Learning for simulated Quadrupeds | Keagan Holmes, Oliver Griess, Oliver Grein | Nico Bohlinger |
| Reinforcement Learning for Contact Rich Manipulation | Dustin Gorecki | Aiswarya Menon, Arjun Datta, Suman Pal |
| Autonomous Gearbox Assembly by Assembly by Disassembly | Jonas Chaselon, Julius Thorwarth | Aiswarya Menon, Felix Kaiser, Arjun Datta |
| Learning to Assemble from Instruction Manual | Erik Rothenbacker, Leon De Andrade, Simon Schmalfuss | Aiswarya Menon,Vignesh Prasad,Felix Kaiser,Arjun Datta |
| Black-box System Identification of the Air Hockey Table | Shihao Li, Yu Wang | Theo Gruner, Puze Liu |
| Unveiling the Unseen: Tactile Perception and Reinforcement Learning in the Real World | Alina Böhm, Inga Pfenning, Janis Lenz | Daniel Palenicek, Theo Gruner, Tim Schneider |
| XXX: eXploring X-Embodiment with RT-X | Daniel Dennert, Christian Scherer, Faran Ahmad | Daniel Palenicek, Theo Gruner, Tim Schneider, Maximilian Tölle |
| Kinodynamic Neural Planner for Robot Air Hockey | Niclas Merten | Puze Liu |
| XXX: eXploring X-Embodiment with RT-X | Tristan Jacobs | Daniel Palenicek, Theo Gruner, Tim Schneider, Maximilian Tölle |
| Reactive Human-to-Robot Handovers | Fabian Hahne | Vignesh Prasad, Alap Kshirsagar |
| Analysis of multimodal goal prompts for robot control | Max Siebenborn | Aditya Bhatt, Maximilian Tölle |
| Q-Ensembles as a Multi-Armed Bandit | Henrik Metternich | Ahmed Hendawy, Carlo D'Eramo |
