IMRC Thesis

PhD/MSc/BSc Thesis

For open PhD positions, please take a look at our jobs page. For MSc/BSc theses, please see the topics below.

Open Topic

We offer MS and BS thesis topics for students with a strong interest in robotics who are already enrolled at TU Berlin. In addition to our fixed list of topics, we offer customized topics based on mutual interest and technical background. Our highest priorities are that students learn new technical and theoretical skills and enjoy their time working on the thesis. Good mentoring takes time (we meet with our students at least one hour per week); we therefore can only mentor a few students.

If you are interested in working with us, please contact Wolfgang Hönig with a motivation letter. In your letter, please describe why you are interested, your technical background, and potential projects of interest (if any). If you need an inspiration, you can find examples of past thesis on our publications and thesis pages. For us, your enthusiasm for the research area and a desire to participate in a research lab is of utmost importance. We are a highly interdisciplinary and diverse team and we explicitly encourage applications from underrepresented groups.

Current Thesis Supervision

Georg Wolnik

08/2026 - now

MS Thesis (Computer Science)

Comparison of Control Strategies for Interaction-Force Aware Multirotor Teams

Florian Rutsch

04/2026 - now

MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science)

Active Learning for Tuning Controller Parameters

Erik Schlenzka

03/2026 - now

MS Thesis (Computer Engineering)

Analyzing monocular event-based visual-inertial odometry on small Flying robots

Past Thesis

Mathieu Siegenthaler, 05/2025 - 11/2025 , MS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Kinodynamic Multi-Robot Traveling Salesman Problems with Applications to Ocean Cleanup
Hendrik Berg, 03/2025 - 09/2025 , MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science) , Motion Planning and Control for Fully Submerged Hydrofoil Vessels
Viktor Lorentz, 01/2025 - 07/2025 , MS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Transport of Cable Suspended Payloads with Multiple Multirotors
Max Klemens, 12/2024 - 06/2025 , MS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Learning Multirotor Vision-to-Action Control Policies via Imitation Learning
Leon Thormeyer, 11/2024 - 06/2025 , MS Thesis (Industrial Engineering and Management) , Decentralized Control Policy with Imitation Learning for Multiple Multirotors Transporting Cable Suspended Payloads
Tobias Jung, 08/2024 - 01/2025 , BS Thesis (Computer Science) , Software-in-the-loop Simulation for Crazyﬂie Multirotor Teams
Dennis Schmidt, 06/2024 - 01/2025 , MS Thesis (Electrical Engineering) , Development of an uncertainty-aware Motion Planner combining Branch MPC with Machine Learning
Julius Franke, 05/2024 - 11/2024 , MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science) , Motion Primitive Selection for Kinodynamic Motion Planning
Eckart Ferdinand Cobo Briesewitz, 05/2024 - 10/2024 , BS Thesis (Computer Science) , Learning-based Multirotor Control Enhancements
Christoph Scherer, 02/2024 - 09/2024 , MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science) , Learning Residual Physics Distributions of Multirotors with Cable-Suspended Payloads
Christian Hickstein, 11/2023 - 03/2024 , BS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation for Crazyflie Multirotors
Theo Valentin Kern, 05/2023 - 11/2023 , MS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Long-Horizon Planning of Multirotor Teams for Construction Assembly
Keerthana Laxmish, 04/2023 - 10/2023 , MS Thesis (ICT Innovation) , Learning-Based Relative State Estimation for Ultralow-Power Multirotor Teams
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Alexander Weingart, 02/2023 - 08/2023 , MS Thesis (Computer Science) , Enhancing Sampling Based Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Reinforcement Learning Policies
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Maika Krüger, 01/2023 - 08/2023 , MS Thesis (Computer Science) , Safety-Guided Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Applications to Robotic Assisted Surgery using Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Jana Schicke, 11/2022 - 03/2023 , BS Thesis (Computer Science) , Learning-based Multirotor System Model Enhancements
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Welf Rehberg, 04/2022 - 11/2022 , MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science) → PhD Student, NTNU , K-Order Markov Optimization and Sequential Convex Programming for Multirotor Motion Planning
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