Teaching and supervision

In addition to my research activities, I have done a lot of teaching and have supervised many thesis projects throughout my career. All of these activities are listed on this page. For most of my courses, I also provide links to dedicated course pages where my teaching materials are shared.

Courses

Chalmers University of Technology

Lecturer

• SSY236 (Decision-Making for Autonomous Systems) - supporting lecturer (WS25)

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Master of Autonomous Systems)

Lecturer

• Cognitive Robotics (SS25, SS24, SS23)
• Software Engineering for Robotics (SS25, WS24/25, SS24, WS23/24)
• Artificial Intelligence (SS25)
• Robot Learning (WS24/25, WS23/24)
• Autonomous Mobile Robots (WS24/25, SS24, WS23/24)
• Research and Development Colloquium (WS19/20)
• Fault Detection and Diagnosis (SS19)
• Research and Development Colloquium — joint lecturer (SS18)

Teaching assistant

• Mathematics for Robotics and Control (SS21, WS20/21, SS20, WS19/20, WS18/19, SS18, WS17/18)
• Software Development Project — project coach (WS22/23, SS22, SS21, WS20/21, SS20)
• Deep Learning for Robot Vision — project coach (SS22)
• Scientific Experimentation and Evaluation (WS18/19, SS18, WS17/18)
• Probabilistic Methods for Robotics (SS17)
• Mathematics for Robotics and Control — joint TA (SS17)
• Scientific Experimentation and Evaluation — joint TA (SS17)

Supervised projects

The following is a list of student projects I have (co-)supervised over the years.

Chalmers University of Technology

Master’s theses

• Samuel Armgren and Robert Kupferschmied: Fusion of Human Context for Trajectory Prediction [technical report]
• Zhiyuan Jia: A Multimodal System for Anthropometric Parameter Recognition

Bachelor’s theses

• Self-driving golf cart (six-person group project)

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Master of Autonomous Systems)

Master’s theses

• Khatina Sari: Assessing the Robustness of Learning-Based Robot Skill Models: A Large-Scale Experiment
• Ekansh Sharma: Model-based optimal estimation of articulated object configuration using proprioceptive interaction
• Ritwik Sinha: Towards socially acceptable robot-to-human object handover through a human-in-the-loop context-aware approach
• Vivek Mannava: On using conversational AI for autonomous planning goal specification
• Hamsa Datta Perur: Coupled active perception for mobile manipulation in unknown environments
• Bharath Santhanam: Robust robot task execution using monitoring and recovery in anomalous conditions
• Malika Helapita Ralalage: Outdoor navigation in uneven terrain using learning methods
• Natalia Quiroga: Experience-based path planning framework for real-time learning from demonstration
• Michal Stolarz: Multimodal deep learning-based adaptation of robot behaviour for assistive robotics
• Hasnainali Walli: Lifelong action learning for socially assistive robots
• Anirudh Narasimamurthy: Visuomotor policy learning for predictive manipulation
• Hashem Talaat: Robust environment sound classification and anomaly detection using deep learning
• Artem Vinokurov: Towards improvements on RoboCup@Home robot’s architecture, capabilities and development process

Research and development projects

• Ayush Salunke: Comparative evaluation of learning-based bimanual robot skills for everyday tasks
• Nigitha Selvaraj: Learning-Based Indoor Robot Navigation
• Khatina Sari: Explainability analysis for skill execution
• Yashika Garg: Integrating anomaly detection with fault diagnosis for long-horizon tasks
• Vivek Mannava: Safe and fault-aware child-robot natural language interaction
• Kishan Ravindra Sawant: Learning efficient knife handling skills in semi-structured environments on a dual-arm robot
• Ekansh Sharma: Development and implementation of a self-learning control approach for contact-rich object manipulation
• Natalia Quiroga: Learning human gestures by imitation for robots
• Michal Stolarz: Personalised behaviour models for child-robot interaction
• Malika Helapita Ralalage: Benchmarking object placement algorithms for mobile robotic manipulators
• Salman Omar Sohail: Automated test generation for robot self-examination
• Alan Orlando Gomez Torres: Registering and visualizing point cloud data with existing 3D CityGML Models
• Anirudh Narasimamurthy: Manipulating handles in domestic environments
• Jasmine Padhye: Ontology-based robot fault diagnosis
• Ahmed Faisal Abdelrahman: Incorporating contextual knowledge into human-robot collaborative task execution [technical report]
• Minh Nguyen: Learning grasp evaluation models using synthetic 3D object-grasp representations
• Erick Romero Kramer: Tell your robot what to do: Evaluation of natural language models for robot command processing
• Swaroop Bhandary: Learning corrective models for multistep actions by analysing videos
• Abhishek Padalkar: Dynamic motion primitives
• Roberto Mendieta: A comparative analysis of fault detection approaches in mobile robots (joint project with Sogol Haghighat)
• Sogol Haghighat: A comparative analysis of fault detection approaches in mobile robots (joint project with Roberto Mendieta)
• Hashem Talaat: Semantic information by acoustic clues: Towards anomaly detection for service robots