Thesis Topics

We are always open to create a custom thesis topic for good students. Even if there is currently no open topic that seems to fit your interest, please have a look at the research topics of our Team.

Application Process:
Please contact us at irl-thesis∂lists.kit.edu. Your e-mail should be written in English and contain:

a short CV
current Transcript of Records (Notenauszug)
the topic you want to apply for.
For a custom thesis, please indicate your research interest and up to two potential supervisors from our Team

This information helps us to estimate your experience level and find an appropriate topic and supervisor.

Please Note: Incomplete applications or messages to other email addresses will result in delayed responses or remain unanswered.

Available Thesis Topics
Title	Topic	Supervisor	Type	Link
Custom Thesis Topic

Assigned Thesis Topics
Title	Topic	Supervisor	Student	Type	Link
Language and Audio Guided Failure Recovery Methods for Imitation Learning	Audio Models, Imitation Learning	Vanjani, Pankhuri	Marc Nicolaus	Masterarbeit
Joint Representation for Real World Robotic Skill Learning	Robotic Skill Learning	Moritz Reuss, Philipp Becker (ALR)		Master's Thesis	Link
Task-Agnostic and Structure-Adhering Embedding of Scene Graphs using Alignment	Scene Graphs	Paul Mattes	Valentin Quapil	Master's Thesis
Concept Motivated Prototypes: Learning Concept Representations with Probabilistic Prototypes	XAI, Prototype Learning, Computer Vision	Maximilian Li	Korbinian Rudolf	Master's Thesis

Completed Thesis Topics
Title	Topic	Supervisor	Student	Type
Audio-Based Context Aware Interruption by Robot	Audio Models, Human Robot Interaction	Vanjani, Pankhuri	Kevin Daniel Kuryshev	Bachelorarbeit
Force-Aware Robot Manipulation using Movement Primitives	Real Robot, Motion Control	Maximilian Li	Paul Loedige	Master's Thesis
Solving Real-World Robot Manipulation Tasks with Deep Reinforcement Learning	Deep Reinforcement Learning, Real Robot	Hongyi Zhou, Ge Li (ALR)	Max Nagy	Master's Thesis
Benchmarking Model-based Controllers for Franka Emika Robot	Motion Control	Hongyi Zhou	Haoliang Huang	Bachelor's Thesis
Neuro-Symbolic Methods for Analysis in Manufacturing	Knowledge Graphs, XAI	Paul Mattes, Tim Strobel (Bosch Center for AI)	Adrien Bouchet	Master's Thesis
XAI for Timeseries in Gastronomy	XAI, Timeseries	Maximilian Li, Dr. Konstantin Gavras (Nesto GmbH)	Tim-Cedric Inhoff	Bachelor's Thesis
Energy Guidance: A Joint Sampling Process between Diffusion and Energy-based Models for Imitation Learning	Imitation Learning, Diffusion	Moritz Reuss, Philipp Dahlinger (ALR)	Paul Mattes	Master's Thesis
Information Aggregation for Deep Reinforcement Learning with Movement Primitives	Real Robot, Motion Control, Deep Learning	Hongyi Zhou, Ge Li (ALR)	Zeqi Jin	Master's Thesis