Thesis topics in the Institute of Technology

• Application of VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models in robotics
• LLM-based task planning for robots
• ROBOTONT: analysis of different options as on-board computers
• SemuBot (various topics)
• ROBOTONT: integrating a graphical programming interface
• Sign-language-based control for robots
• Robotic Study Companion: a social robot for students in higher education
• Quantitive Evaluation of the Situation Awareness during the Teleoperation of an Urban Vehicle

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Indrek Must

• Spinning robotic embodiments into the environment: development of new spinnerets, multimaterial capability implementation, morphogenesis characterisation

Farnaz Baksh

Thesis topics related to social robotics, education, and human-robot interaction; Robot Study Companion (RSC).

• RSC-XR: Game Engine-Based Study Companions
• RSC's Digital Twin: A Virtual Copy of the RSC
• Brains of the RSC: Inferencing LLMs on Low-Compute Devices
• Speaking, Listening RSC: TTS and STT Solutions
• Learn About How You Learn: Study Monitoring Web Interface
• Academic Emotion Recognition with the RSC
• Your Social Robot Study Companion as an IoT Gateway
• Build the RSC Human-Robot Multimodal Interaction
• Explore and Implement Cybersecurity Measures
• RSC Gets a HAT: Comprehensive PCB Design

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Arun Singh

Thesis topics for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAVs)

• Multi-agent Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) game with flow-matching aided assignment
• Finding the optimal blast radius for the defenders in a Multi-agent Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) game
• Capture the flag game solved using multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (RL)
• Tracking ground vehicles using non-homogeneous UAVs

Thesis topics for Learning Based Planning and Control

• Benchmarking Crowd Navigation Algorithms
• Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Complex Manipulation Tasks

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• Implementing the results of the AIRE (AI & Robotics Estonia) project "ParKinSim" to make SemuBot's head move. To do this, you need to:
  • Design mechanics of a suitable size.
  • Port AI algorithms to a suitable SemuBot onboard computer.
  • Write a ROS driver to move the head. Implementation of the results of the AIRE (AI & Robotics Estonia) project "ParKinSim" to make SemuBot's head move. To do this, you need to: Construct mechanics of a suitable size.
  • Port AI algorithms to a suitable SemuBot board computer.
  • Write a ROS driver to move the head.
• Walking lawn mower
• A sensory toy (jonnipunn in Estonian) for SemuBot

Urmas Tamm

• WIFI heatmapper

SemuBot

(various supervisors)

• Analysis and redesign of the base vehicle
• Assembly of central electronics and development of standards
• Improvement, testing, and launch of speech recognition on a more powerful on-board computer
• Integration of a new display
• Designing the arm and integrating it with the body according to the latest mechanical design
• Communication between the onboard computer and the screen/computer on the abdomen
• Creating a user interface for the phone and computer
• Writing a thesis on a topic of interest using the example of a social humanoid robot

Veronika Zadin

• Development of multiscale physics simulation code HPC computing environment:
  • Parallelization of the academic multiphysics simulation code
  • Building a problem specific local HPC computing environment
• Digital twin usage methodology development for simulation based product design with usage of surrogate models, FEM and ML.
• Development of a TEM (transmission electron microscope) sample holder with movement accuracy of nm scale and with in-situ electric field capability.
• Automatization of the testing set-up for magnetoliposome drug delivery mechanism, involving control systems for cooling, magnet control and power management.

• Optically reconfigurable antennas made from liquid crystals

Tartu Observatory

(contacts found on their page)

• Physics of galaxy and cosmology
• Remote sensing
• Space technology
• Stellar physics

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• Screening for plant lines with disturbed upper leaf surface stomatal patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana; supervisors Pirko Jalakas and Hanna Hõrak
• Variability in blackcurrant stomatal patterns and its relationship with disease resistance; supervisors Ingmar Tulva and Hanna Hõrak
• The effect of soil moisture on the anatomy and physiology of stomata in spring wheat varieties with different stomatal characteristics; supervisors Elena Ivandi and Hanna Hõrak
• The effect of IQD19 overexpression on leaf stomatal patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana; supervisors Pirko Jalakas and Hanna Hõrak
  The role of TMM and STKR1 genes in the growth of Arabidopsis thaliana and the formation of stomatal patterns; supervisors Hanna Hõrak and Pirko Jalakas

• The potential of less studied physiological characteristics of leaves and reproductive organs to increase yield; supervisor Ebe Merilo
• Opportunities for breeding future varieties: regulation of stomatal aperture in barley leaves in light and darkness; supervisor Ebe Merilo

Karl Storz Endoskope

Bachelor's thesis topics

• Design and development of Automated Assembly process dor SSU endoscope shaft assembly
• Development of method for calculating the CO2 footprint of KSVEE SSU production

Master's thesis topics

• High-frequency electrosurgery compatibility of video images in endoscopy
• Design of a polymer lens system for a single use instrument
• Use of improved steel instead of hardened steel –effect on mould endurance
• Antibacterial TiAgN coating on stainless steel components in a cleanroom
• Antibacterial Additives for 3D Printable Plastic Materials
• Evaluation of Product Interfaces for Ultrasonic Welding Integration in Automated Assembly

Master's thesis topics with an internship

• Extrusion Process Design – evaluation of the effect of parameters change on product properties
  • Praktika toimub aastal 2027

Read more about the topics HERE.