The department always has a number of suggestions for degree projects (see below for examples). We can also often help to establish contacts with companies that are interested in degree projects, both in Sweden and abroad. The topics can include systems theory, modeling and simulation, machine learning, real-time systems, process control, automotive systems, robotics, and a large range of other application areas for control and dynamical systems in general.

If you are interested in doing your degree project with us please contact our Director of Studies, Anton Cervin (anton@control.lth.se), or discuss directly with any of the teachers at the department.

Slides and contact info from the MSc thesis meetings 2021-nov-5 and 2021-nov-10 are available here

Useful Documents in Swedish / English

• Examensarbetesprocessen, på lth.se / The engineering degree project process, at lth.se
• Kursplan för Examensarbete i reglerteknik, på lth.se / Course syllabus for Degree Project in Automatic Control, at lth.se
• Anmälan – Examensarbete / Enrolment form – Degree Project (PDF, 290 kB, new tab)
• Examensarbete – Sammanställning av aktiviteter (PDF, 172 kB, ny flik) / Summary of activities in a degree project (PDF, 172 kB, new tab)
• Report templates

Academic Projects

• Automatic portfolio management using a Linear Quadratic Gaussian control law
• Master's thesis projects on
  • Mean square compensation of a stochastic LTI system with multiplicative noise via Wasserstein Kalman filter
  • Robot path planning via deep reinforcement learning
  • Spatio-temporal risk allocation for path planning
• Master's theses on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
• Master's thesis on strategic control and behavioral economics
• Master's thesis on Optimal Scheduling Policy Inference using Reinforcement Learning

Academic–Industrial Projects

The following is a list of suggested projects in collaboration between multiple departments at LTH and/or industry:

• Multimodal machine learning for anomaly detection in cloud operations (Ericsson/Control) – contact Johan Eker for more information

Projects in the Robotics Lab (at CS and/or Control)

• Safe Learning of Robot Behaviors defined by Black-Box Policies (e.g. Neural Nets)
• Learning Imitation of Demonstrated Behaviors with RL-methods using a Robot Arm

• Learning Tasks with Dual-Arm Coordination

Industrial Projects

The following is a selection of companies and some potentially control-related degree projects. Please contact Anton Cervin (anton@control.lth.se) if you would like to add your company and your master's thesis project proposal(s) to this list.

Please note that the list below is far from complete, and you may find recent advertisments at, e.g., MyCareer and other job portals.

The department has good international contacts and can help to arrange thesis projects in other countries. Some recent examples are California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, Imperial College, University of Newcastle, University of Melbourne, Laboratoire d'automatique de Grenoble, University of Coimbra, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL.