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 |
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| Jan Mackensen | Dorothea Koert | M.Sc. | A Human-Centered Approach for AI-Aided Anomaly Detection in Time Series |
| Zhiyuan Hu | Joe Watson | 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 |
| Sabin Grube | Snehal Jauhri | M.Sc. | Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and 3D Vision for Dual-arm Robotic Tasks |
| 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 |
| Marcel Mittenbühler | Ahmed Hendawy, Carlo D'Eramo, Georgia Chalvatzaki | M.Sc. | Lifelong Robot Learning with Pretrained Multimodal Models |
| Denis Andrić | An Thai Le, Georgia Chalvatzaki | M.Sc. | Learning Symplectic Manifold Of Dynamical Systems |
| Joshua Johannson | Oleg Arenz | M.Sc. | Bipedal Locomotion on Bolt |
| 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 |
| Yasemin Goeksu | Alap Kshirsagar, Oliver Hahn | M.Sc. | Self-supervised Learning for Robotic Visuomotor Skills |
| Lu Liu | Michael Drolet from IAS, Oleg Arenz from IAS | M.Sc. | Learning Latent Embeddings for Locomotion |
| Lorenzo Tozzi | Davide Tateo, Carlo D'Eramo | M.Sc. | Dynamic Tiles for Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| 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 |
| Martin Steinborn | Suman Pal from IAS | M.Sc. | Multi-Person Pose Tracking Using Dynamically Gated Similarities |
| 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 |
| Paolo Magliano | Davide Tateo from IAS, Raffaello Camoriano from PoliTo | M.Sc. | SafeLoco: Safe Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Locomotion |
| Zongwei Zhang | Michael Drolet from IAS, Firas Al-Hafez from IAS, Sebastian Hirt from TU Darmstadt, Oleg Arenz from IAS | M.Sc. | Reinforcement Learning for Exoskeleton Control |
| Sebastian Zach | Kay Hansel and An Thai Le from IAS | M.Sc. | Reactive Motion Generation through Probabilistic Dynamic Graphs |
| Marius Zöller | Kay Hansel and An Thai Le from IAS | M.Sc. | Enhancing Smoothness in Policy Blending with Gaussian Processes |
| Yi Li | Alexandre Chapin, Liming Chen, Emmanuel Dellandrea from LIRIS, Tim Schneider, Alap Kshirsagar | M.Sc. | Self-supervised learning of a visual object-centric representation for robotic manipulation |
| Jiahui Shi | Junning Huang | M.Sc. | Hybrid Force-Impedance Control for Robot Manipulators |
| 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 |
| Khrystyna Rud | Alap Kshirsagar, Oliver Hahn | M.Sc. | Self-supervised Learning for Robotic Visuomotor Skills |
| Janis Lenz | Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Tim Schneider | M.Sc. | Integration of Vision and Tactile Sensing for Robotic Insertion Tasks using Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| Tristan Jacobs | Maximilian Toelle, Daniel Palenicek, Theo Gruner, Tim Schneider | M.Sc. | Benchmarking of Generalist Robot Policies |
| Philipp Jahr | Joao Carvalho | M.Sc. | Residual SVF |
| Philip Hirschle | Jan Peters from IAS, Andras Kubcik from Bosch AI | M.Sc. | Scalable foundation model robot policy |
| Learning to throw paper planes | Ansh Prakash | Kai Ploeger, Alap Kshirsagar |
| Super Fast Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning | Artur Zelik, David Masloub | Ahmed Hendawy, Firas Al-Hafez |
| Real-Time Deformable Object Instance Segmentation and Tracking | Jiahong Xue, Yu Deng, Teng Cao | Berk Gueler from IAS, Yufeng Jin from PEARL |
| Blending Deep Generative Models using Stochastic Optimization | Julian Ferrer Rodriguez | Kay Hansel and Niklas Funk from IAS |
| Training Robots to Play Badminton | Christian Bialas | Alap Kshirsagar |
| VLM Humanoid: AI-Powered Robotics for Next-Gen Human-Robot Interaction | Fei Long | Aiswarya Menon from IAS, Suman Pal from IAS, Changqi Chen? from IAS |
| AutoPlan: Autonomous Gearbox Assembly | Keqi Zeng | Aiswarya Menon from IAS, Suman Pal from IAS, Arjun Datta? from IAS |
| AutoPaint: Automatic Path Planning for High-Precision Robotic Spray Painting | Jannis Neus | [ |
| Building a Test Bench for Tactile Slip Detection | Thomas Ellenberger, Faris Begic, Florian Mach, Paul List, Timo Kolbe | Tim Schneider and Niklas Funk from IAS, Janosch Moos and Omar Elsarha from IMS |
