Thesis Topics
Our groups current research activities are focused on the following four directions:
- Real-Time Systems, including formal timing analyses, scheduling algorithm design, real-time operating systems, Worst-Case Execution Time, etc.
- Please contact Junjie Shi, Mario Günzel, Nils Hölscher, Georg von der Brueggen, Lars Willemsen, and Ching-Chi Lin
- Embedded Systems, including system software development, design and optimization for emerging architectures, etc.
- Please contact Christian Hakert, Nils Hölscher, Vahidreza Moghaddas, Tristan Seidl, Kay Heider, and Yun-Chih Chen
- Resource-constrained Data Analyses, including error tolerant neural networks, architecture-aware data analyses, etc.
- Please contact Daniel Kuhse, Zahra Valipour , Daniel Biebert, and Simon Kurz.
- Autonomous Robots, including autonomous navigation with cars, simulation, communication, control systems, etc.
- Please contact Harun Teper
If you are interested in writing your thesis in any of the above mentioned research directions please refer to the corresponding people directly for further topic discussions or see the list of available thesis topics below.
Please see the list of completed theses to get an impression of topics provided by our group.
In case you cannot find a suitable one but you are still interested in ES/CPS designs, please refer to the aforementioned LS12 staff.
Currently available thesis topics:
- Advancing an Evaluation Framework for Self-Suspending Tasks (BA/MA)
- Reverse Engineering timing properties of TIs MSP430 FRAM Devices (BA/MA) [reserved, 05.04.25]
- Timing Sensitive Synchronous Communication in Microcontroller Networks (BA/MA)
- ROS2-Based Framework for Real-Time PTZ Camera Control Using VR Headsets (BA) [reserved]
- Efficient Data Format Conversion for Low-Bitwidth Vector Processing
- Probabilistic Suspension Time (MA)
- Priority Point Exploration for EDF-Like Scheduling (MA)
- Dirichlet Rescale Algorithm (MA)
- Evaluating and Optimizing Mechanisms to prevent Timing Anomalies (BA/MA)
Ongoing thesis topics:
- Chaotic Behavior of End-to-End Latencies (BA)
- Construction of a Low-Cost Spectral Sensor (BA/MA)
- Exactness of EDF-Like Scheduling (BA)
- Evaluation Framework for End-to-End Analysis (MA)
- Error Resilient Structure of Random Forest (MA)
- LLVMTA: Utilising linked binaries for analysed address space
- Framework for Delivering VR Contents Over Wireless Network (BA)
- Automatic Exploration of Static Environments using SLAM for Autonomous Robots
- Benchmark suit for evaluating wear levelling on specific memory regions (BA)
- Framework for Evaluating the Trust- worthiness of Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Vehicles (BA)
- Drone Deployment and Workload Offloading in Decentralized Drone Networks (MA)
- Offloading Protocols for Multi-Mode Mixed-Criticality Systems (BA)
- Exploration of K-means Clustering Algorithms on Low-dimensional Datasets (MA)
- Verification for the Concept Drift of Hyper-Parameter when Dataset Shift (BA/MA)