Enabling Legged Robots for Autonomous Work on Roofs

Forschungsthema/Bereich

Legged Robotics

Typ der Abschlussarbeit

Master

Startzeitpunkt

01.06.2026

Bewerbungsschluss

20.05.2026

Dauer der Arbeit

6 months

Beschreibung

Advances in reinforcement learning (RL) and robotics are rapidly transforming how
autonomous robots perceive, navigate, and interact with the world. These advances
enable complex tasks in challenging environments. Nevertheless, large-scale
deployment of autonomous mobile robots remains limited, constraining their realworld usefulness. To get robots into new applications, a task and environment driven adaption of quadrupeds is to be investigated in this collaborative master’s thesis.

Voraussetzung

Voraussetzungen an Studierende

• For both thesis topics:
• - Ability to work in a collaborative environment
• - Motivated and reliable mindset
• - Passion for robotics
• Hardware thesis:
• - CAD (required)
• - General knowledge about robotic hardware development (required)
• - Actuator and joint design (beneficial)
• - Material science and manufacturing knowledge (beneficial)
• Control (RL) thesis:
• - Python (required)
• - ROS2 (beneficial)
• - Theoretical knowledge about Reinforcement Learning (beneficial)
• - Isaac Sim/Lab (beneficial)

Studiengangsbereiche

• Ingenieurwissenschaften
  Elektrotechnik & Informationstechnik
  Informatik
  Maschinenbau
  Mechatronik & Informationstechnik
  Mechanical Engineering
  Computer Science
  Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
  Mechatronics and Information Technology
• Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften
  Wirtschaftsinformatik
  Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen

Betreuung

Titel, Vorname, Name

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arne Rönnau, M.Sc. Björn-Felix Dettmar & M.Sc. Louis Enslin

Organisationseinheit

IMI - Machine Intelligence and Robotics Lab

E-Mail Adresse

dettmar@kit.edu

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