| Type | Semester project |
| Split | 20% theory, 80% implementation and evaluation |
| Knowledge | Robotic manipulation and control, Programming skills (Python) Experience with real robotic hardware and ROS is a plus |
| Subjects | Robotics, Control |
| Supervision | Erfan Etesami |
| Published | 14.01.2026 |
Interested applicants should contact [email protected] with their CV attached.
This semester project is part of an ongoing research project that is concerned with designing control strategies for supernumerary robotic manipulators (SRMs). SRMs augment human movements by incorporating one or more robotic manipulators in addition to a person’s biological ones, which, in return, allows the user to perform tasks that would otherwise require a team of two. Therefore, this field has close ties with human-robot collaboration and robotic manipulation.
This project targets the assembly of beams (see the figure) as the real-world application. To achieve this, various control submodules need to be developed, accounting for teleoperation, safety of the system, human comfort, perception, and force and contact modeling. This semester project will be concerned with one of these submodules. The applicant is expected to be familiar with the theory around robotic manipulators and their control. Furthermore, the project requires coding and implementation of control strategies (mostly with Python).
Expectation
- Weekly meetings to discuss the progress
- Code and implementation must be well-organized, clearly documented, and thoroughly commented to ensure maintainability and reproducibility.
- Writing a concise and clear report