Student Research

Master Thesis Opportunities

• Human-Robot Alignment and Values

  • CS From Values to Metrics - Context-Aware Metric Selection
  • CS Encoding mission requirements and user needs for understanding

• Awareness

  • CS Robot Awareness Management
  • CS Situational-Awareness for Manufacturing Robots
  • CS COMPLETED A Context Awareness Framework for Real-Time Analysis and Adaptive Navigation in Dynamic Indoor Environments
  • OB TAKEN Context Aware Risk Assessment
  • Uncertainty-Aware Causal Risk Modeling for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments -Counterfactual Reasoning with Probabilistic Causal Models for Risk-Aware Robot Navigation

• Acting (Internal and External)

  • CS SIMILAR Self-Adaptation Module: development of a CoreSense module for diagnosis and reconfiguration based on the principles of models@runtime and self-adaptive systems.
  • CS SIMILAR Autotuning for mobile manipulators
  • CS LLMs as priors for Causal Discovery and Inference in Robotics
  • Deciding when to Transition from Autonomous Driving to Remote Operation (collaboration with Intelligent Vehicles)
  • CS TAKEN Value-based Robot Behaviour Generation following the Belief Desire Intention Model

• Knowledge Management

  • CS TAKEN Modern Information Storage for Knowledge Bases in Autonomous Robots

• Evaluation

  • OB What is autonomy and how can we measure it?

Legend:

TAKEN: Thesis has started

SIMILAR: Might be available

COMPLETED: an MSc thesis has been successfully defended addressing this topic.

CS: part of the CoreSense project

MT: part of the METATOOL project

OB: part of the OpenBots project