Student Supervision

Recent and Ongoing Supervision

Ongoing Bachelor’s Theses

• Nicolas Klin — Investigations into Parametrizations for State Space Models.
• Vincent Bremer — Divergence-Regularized Autoencoders with Closed-Form Wasserstein-KL Penalties.
• Alexander Kranz — Low-dimensional Control under Embodiment Constraints: From LQR to Reinforcement Learning.
• Paul Heidereich — LQR-Based Activation Steering of Large Language Models.

Completed Master’s Thesis

• Sucheth Shenoy (2025) — Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control with Stability Guarantees. Co-supervision in a supporting role.

Selected Student Projects Leading to Publications

• Abdallah Altalmas · Project work, 2021
  Quadrotor attitude stabilization using quaternions in the linear parameter-varying framework.
  Attitude stabilization of a quadrotor with quaternions within the LPV framework · ECC 2021 ↗

• Felix Ganz · Master’s thesis, 2020
  Koopman operators and controller design using linear matrix inequalities.
  Data-driven H∞ optimal controller design using the Koopman operator: case study · ECC 2021 ↗

• Christian Hespe · Master’s thesis, 2020
  Analysis of distributed control algorithms for general nonlinear mobile agents.
  Distributed Control of Mobile LTI and LPV Agents Using Induced L2 to L∞ Norms · CDC 2020 ↗

• Peter Paulsen · Master’s thesis, 2019
  Experimental investigations into communication constraints and cooperative control of quadrotors.
  Flocking Towards the Source: Indoor Experiments with Quadrotors · ECC 2020 ↗

• Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa Bakr · Project work, 2018
  MIMO data-driven control and implementation on a control moment gyroscope.
  Data-Driven Control for a Class of Non-Linear MIMO Systems · CDC 2018 ↗

• Shashank Jadhav · Master’s thesis, 2017
  Consensus algorithms for multi-agent systems under communication constraints.
  Distributed Approach to Dynamic Quantization for Multi-Agent Systems · ACC 2018 ↗

Past Student Projects

The archive includes 10 master’s theses, 6 bachelor’s theses, and 11 project works, plus a research seminar and two projects whose type was not specified. These are listed projects, rather than a count of unique students.

Master’s Theses

• Maximilian Dio (2021) — Offline and Active learning for Data-Driven control of Construction Machines using Gaussian Processes.
• Christian Hespe (2020) — Analysis of distributed control algorithms for general non-linear mobile agents.
• Felix Ganz (2020) — Applications of Koopman operators with LMI based control techniques: Case study on representative examples.
• Rafael Salomon Sanchez (2020) — Development of a Model Predictive Controller for an Autonomous Drone (at IAV Automotive Engineering Inc.).
• Peter Paulsen (2019) — Experimental Investigations into the effect of Communication Constraints on Performance of Cooperative Control Algorithms: Case Study with Quadrotors.
• Dennis Schradick (2018) — Real-time calibration for localization of UAVs using ultra wide band sensors (external).
• Shashank Jadhav (2017) — Convergence of consensus algorithms for multi-agent systems under communication constraints.
• Konrad Naumann (2017) — Nonlinear control of a quadrotor for stabilization from arbitrary initial conditions.
• Saeed Ghoorchian (2017) — Kernelized principal component analysis of a Linear Parameter Varying model of a Gyroscope.
• Abdul Nasser Attar (2017) — Identification of a Linear Parameter Varying Dynamic Model of an electric sports car.

Bachelor’s Theses

• Astiaj Esmaeilzadeh Fard (2021) — Design and Implementation of a Torque Vectoring Controller for an All-Wheel Drive Racing Car.
• Maximilian Dio (2019) — Investigations into the Control Architecture for Cooperative Control of Vehicles.
• Manuel Strübing (2019) — An underwater test-bed setup for modeling acoustic communications in formation control of underwater robots.
• Julius Häuslein (2018) — Dynamic quantization for formation control of underwater robotic agents.
• Philipp Hastedt (2017) — System Identification of a Quadrotor using Indoor Positioning System.
• Mirco Fabian Woidelko (2017) — Localization of a Quad-roter Helicopter using Indoor Positioning, Optical Flow Sensor and IMU Data.

Project Work

• Marius Ramcke (2021) — Predictive Formation Control in Indoor Experiments with Multiple Quadrotors.
• Abdallah Altalmas (2021) — Attitude Stabilization of Quadrotors with quaternions within the LPV framework.
• Maximilian Dio (2021) — Cooperative Control of multiple quadrotors with Model Predictive Control in an indoor experimental setup.
• Keerthan Kadaji (2020) — Investigations into Bayesian estimation for position measurement of indoor quadrotor experiments.
• Felix Ganz (2019) — Koopman Operator based control with LMI methods.
• Peter Paulsen (2019) — Development of a software framework for implementation of Co-operative control algorithms on a swarm of small quadrotors.
• Shankar Sivanand (2019) — An online optimization based torque vectoring control technique for an electric racing car.
• Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa Bakr (2018) — Systematic procedure for Extended MIMO Data driven control and Implementation on Control Moment Gyroscope.
• Rafael Salomon (2018) — Control of small quadrotor with LQ(Linear Quadratic) Techniques using ROS nodes within Simulink.
• Pongpol Ongrungroj (2018) — Attitude control of a small quadrotor with Quaternions.
• Raja Vardhan Reddy Kothakapu (2018) — Hinf Controller Design for Position and Attitude Control of a small quadrotor.

Research Seminar

• Peter Paulsen (2019) — Literature review of Formation control and Flocking algorithms for cooperative control of mobile robots.

Other Listed Projects

• Leon Koerkemeier (2022) — Adaptive Controller and Observer Design for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles with Unknown Dynamics.
• Ajay Shalghar (2018) — Comparison of LPV controller synthesis with LPV tools and synthesis with full block scalings.