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 thesis coordinator, Bo Bernhardsson (bo.bernhardsson@control.lth.se), or discuss directly with any of the teachers at the department.

Useful Links and Documents in Swedish / English

• Examensarbetesprocessen / The engineering degree project process
• Kursplan för Examensarbete i reglerteknik / Course syllabus for Degree Project in Automatic Control
• Anmälningsblankett / Enrolment Form
• Latex and Word report templates

Academic and Research Infrastructure Projects

• ESS
• MAX IV
• Model-based individualized healthcare, project
• Network dynamics – train delays propagation and epidemiology
• Reinforcement learning and path planning with risk allocation
• Thermal modelling of a cement calorimeter II

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 Computer Science and/or Control)

• Robot Lab
• Center for Construction Robotics
• Data-driven MPC, trajectory scaling, human–robot collaboration, and interaction control
• Reinforcement learning proposals
• Learning imitation of demonstrated behaviors with RL-methods using a robot arm

• Learning tasks with dual-arm coordination

• Source localization using UAVs

Industrial Projects

The following is a selection of companies and some potentially control-related degree projects. Please contact our thesis coordinator Bo Bernhardsson (bo.bernhardsson@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. Some of the proposals mentioned in the presentations below might also have been taken already.

• BeammWave
• BorgWarner, driveline control
• Bosch
• Carrier, project 1, project 2
• Emulate
• Ericsson
• Eriksholm Research Centre / Oticon
• Levtek
• Saab Kockums
• Schneider Electric, project
• Sony
• Trackpaw

See also these proposals from ABB:

• Thesis Work on Integrated Model-based and Data-Driven Control for Time Critical Process with Complex Frictions in Västerås, Vaestmanland County, Sweden | ABB (careers.abb)
• Thesis Work for Efficient and Reliable Path Planning of Marine Surface Vessel in Västerås, Vaestmanland County, Sweden | ABB (careers.abb)
• Thesis Work or Internship on Open and Secured Communications for the Digitalization of Process Industries in Västerås, Vaestmanland County, Sweden | ABB (careers.abb)
• Thesis Work on Cloud Communication and Learning for the Industrial IoT Services in Västerås, Vaestmanland County, Sweden | ABB (careers.abb)

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.