Projects starting Spring 2025

The following projects are currently available for the course, starting in January 2025. The list is not yet complete, more projects will be added as they are specified. You can also look at projects from previous years for reference.

NOTE: The number of students able to take each project is limited. You MUST have approval from the project supervisor before you can choose a specific project. When you have approval, you MUST send an email to the course examiner, Christian Smith, with the supervisor in CC, stating that you have found a project. This is required so that we can contact student services and get you admitted and registered to the course.

1. Sample-efficient Imitation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation Using Diffusion Models
2. Accurate Mesh Initialization for Deformable Object Tracking with Gaussian Splatting
3. Projects relating to CloudGripper (multiple projects).
4. Fast Lightweight Informative Path Planning
5. Sampling-Based Safe Return for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
6. Perception and Collision Avoidance for an Autonomous Hydrofoiling Craft
7. Projects in underwater robotics (multiple projects)
8. Task and Motion Planning for Deformable Object Manipulation Using VLMs and Taxonomy
9. Scene Rendering for Autonomous Driving
10. Inspiring Human-Robot Handovers from Human-Human handovers: Effects of object-weights in handovers
11. Investigating the impacts of Proactive and Reactive Explanations for Repeated Failures during Collaborative Tasks. 
12. Adapting robot’s explanation for failures according to observed human behavior .