Theses
Below, you find a list with topics of open or running theses and student projects.
Click on the boxes to obtain more information about the various topics. In case you are interested in one of the proposed projects, please contact the listed supervisor via email and attach a recent transcript of records. Note that contacting us as well as project documentations can, of course, be done in English or German. Further note that we are always open to own suggestions of control-related theses topics. This also includes projects with industrial partners. However, external theses require clear problem statements and profound methodology.
Thesis or Project: Integrity in encrypted control
When the controller for cyberphysical systems is outsourced to a cloud, different privacy issues can arise. Apart from the well-studied confidentiality of the data, the integrity of the calculation has to be satisfied.
Thesis or Project: Incremental Profileforming
Das Projekt fokussiert sich auf die Weiterentwicklung und Optimierung der Regelung für die Werkzeugkinematik beim inkrementellen Profilumformen.
Thesis or Project: Building automation
The design and control of HVAC technology for heating and cooling of buildings requires profound simulations of the building's energy demand. The thesis or project aims for modeling and simulating the thermal dynamics of buildings.
Thesis or Project: Neural network-based predictive control
Neural networks (NN) are very popular in many fields due to their ability to approximate a large class of functions with arbitrary accuracy. For piecewise affine predictive control schemes, even exact fits are possible as studied in this project.
Thesis or Project: Privacy-preserving distributed estimation
Clock synchronization in networks or position estimation in robot swarms can be realized with affine averaging. However, this distributed estimation algorithm requires the exchange of sensitive data. The project addresses a secure implementation.
Project: Illustrating MIMO control with the Quanser AERO
With its individually controllable propellers, the Quanser AERO provides the perfect platform for the illustration of advanced control concepts for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems.