2025-12-04: Robotic Injections in Animal Tissue.
- Keywords: Medical Robotics, Robotic Control, User Interface
- Contact: Parag Khanna <paragk@kth.se> (Collaborative Project at KTH-KI)
- Start: Jan/Feb 2026.

2025-11-25: Age-Related Bias of Speech Recognition Systems in Multi-Party Elderly-Robot Interaction
- Keywords: Human-Robot Interaction, Dataset bias
- Contact: Iolanda Leite <iolanda@kth.se>
- Start: January 2026
2024-11-15: Adaptive Human-Robot Object Handovers: Learning to Align with Human Behavior Using Reinforcement Learning.
- Keywords: Human-robot Interaction, Handovers, Reinforcement Learning, ML
- Contact: Parag Khanna, <paragk@kth.se>
- Start: January 2026

2024-11-15: Adaptive Robotic Failure Communication: LLM-VLM based Failure Explanation Generation and Adaptation. (LLM-VLM Integration)
- Keywords: Human-robot Interaction, Explainability, Robotic Failures, Machine Learning, AI, LLMs, VLMs
- Contact: Parag Khanna, <paragk@kth.se>
- Start: January 2026

2025-11-15: Investigating the impacts of Proactive and Reactive Explanations for Repeated Failures during Collaborative Tasks.

2025-10-10: System identification for a torpedo-shaped, under-actuated autonomous underwater vehicle
- Keywords: System identification, AUV, dynamical systems modelling
- Contact: Ignacio Torroba <torroba@kth.se>
- Start: January

2025-10-02: Neural Network Verification for Robotics: Verified Underwater Tracking Control
2025-09-16: Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration (2 topics)
- Keywords: AUV, trajectory prediction, collaborative control
- Contact: Chelsea Sidrane <chelse@kth.se>
- Start: January 2026
2025-09-16: Underwater Robotics Projects
- Keywords: SLAM, AUV, Control, Perception
- Contact: John Folkesson <johnf@kth.se>
- Start: anytime
2024-11-21: Football Data Analysis using State-Dependent Voronoi Diagrams
- Keywords: Control, Analysis of Sport Data (Soccer), Multi-agent coordination.
- Contact: Andre Negrao Costa <andrenc@kth.se> and Petter Ögren
- Start: January 2025
2024-11-04: Inspiring Human-Robot Handovers from Human-Human handovers: Effects of object-weights in handovers
- Keywords: HRI, Machine learning, Time-series analysis.
- Contact: Parag Khanna <paragk@kth.se>
- Start: January 2025
2024-11-04: Investigating the impacts of Proactive and Reactive Explanations for Repeated Failures during Collaborative Tasks.
- Keywords: Human-robot Interaction, Explainability, Robotic Failures, Machine Learning, LLMs
- Contact: Parag Khanna, <paragk@kth.se>
- Start: January 2025
2024-11-04: Adapting robot’s explanation for failures according to observed human behavior .
- Keywords: Human-robot Interaction, Explainability, Robotic Failures, Machine Learning, AI
- Contact: Parag Khanna, <paragk@kth.se>
- Start: January 2025

2024-10-28: Generating Global Scene Graphs From Existing Volumetric Maps
- Keywords: Scene graph, exploration, reconstruction, LLM, planning, robotics, semantics
- Contact: Daniel Duberg (dduberg@kth.se), Ermanno Bartoli (bartoli@kth.se)
- Start: anytime
2024-10-15: Learning based HD map Change Detection and Update (with Scania)

Keywords: Autonomous Driving, AI, HD map, Explainability
Contact: Lena Wild (lwild@kth.se)
Start: Jan, 2025

2024-10-02: Mobile robot AI on the edge
- Keywords: AI, Mobile Robot, ROS, Edge Computing
- Contact: Patrick Hammer
- Start: anytime
2024-09-25: Planning under Conditional Observability of Failure Severity
- Keywords: Robot failures, Planning, Markov Decision Processes, Multi-agent
- Contact: Rebecka Winqvist, <rebwin@kth.se>
- Start: Jan 25

2024-09-16: Exploring Neuro-Symbolic AI for Enhanced Cancer Risk Analysis Based on Family History
- Keywords:
- Contact: Danica Kragic
- Start: now

2024-09-12: Sampling-Based Safe Return for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Keywords: Motion planning, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Contact: Chelsea Rose Sidrane
- Start: now or January
2024-09-12: FLIPP: Fast Lightweight Informative Path Planning
- Keywords: Motion planning, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Contact: Chelsea Rose Sidrane
- Start: now
2023-11-30: Follow-Up Clarifications to Resolve Ambiguities Using Virtual Reality
- Keywords: Explainability, Resolving ambiguities, Human-robot interaction
- Contact: Fethiye Irmak Dogan
- Start: anytime

2023-11-30: Leveraging Large Language Models for Human-Robot Interaction
- Keywords: Large Language Models, Human-robot interaction
- Contact: Fethiye Irmak Dogan
- Start: anytime

2023-11-30: Explainable Robot Decisions for Assistive Applications
- Keywords: Explainability, Continual Learning, Assistive Robots
- Contact: Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Ermanno Bartolli
- Start: anytime

2023-11-30: Life-long Learning for Assistive Robots
- Keywords: Continual Learning, Assistive Robots
- Contact: Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Ermanno Bartolli
- Start: anytime

2023-11-09: Safe Online Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Racing Vehicles
- Keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles
- Contact: Miguel Vasco <miguelsv@kth.se>, Alfredo Reichlin <alfrei@kth.se>
- Start: anytime

2023-11-02: Various Cloud Robotics & Machine Learning Project Proposals on CloudGripper
- Keywords: Cloud Robotics, Robotic Manipulation
- Contact: Florian Pokorny <fpokorny@kth.se>, Shutong Jin <shutong@kth.se>, Ruiyu Wang <ruiyuw@kth.se>
- Start: anytime
2023-11-01: Iterative Gripper Design for Caging-based Manipulation of Deformable Objects
- Keywords: gripper design, caging, sampling-based motion planning
- Contact: Florian Pokorny <fpokorny@kth.se>, Yifei Dong <yifeid@kth.se>
- Start: from December 2023 onwards
2023-10-23: Robustness to bit-flipping for low memory semantic segmentation networks
- Keywords: bit-flipping attacks, low memory networks
- Contact: Josephine Sullivan
- Start: January 2024
2023-10-23: Data Imputation for the Multiple Sclerosis Registry
- Keywords: Data imputation, Multiple Sclerosis Registry
- Contact: Josephine Sullivan <sullivan@kth.se>
- Start: January 2024

2023-10-16: How should a robot release object as a human takes it: Investigating robot-to-human handovers
- Keywords: Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, Handovers, Human Behavior
- Contact: Parag Khanna (paragk@kth.se) , Elmira Yadollahi
- Start: January 2024
2023-10-11: Weight Matters: An Investigation into Human Handover Behavior and Its Implications for Human-Robot Object Handovers
- Keywords: Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, Human Behavior
- Contact: Parag Khanna (paragk@kth.se)
- Start: January 2024
2022-12-14: Combining Safe Control and Filter-based Visual Inertial Odometry
- Keywords: Safe Control, VIO, State Estimation
- Contact: Matti Vahs (vahs@kth.se)
- Start: Feb '23
2022-12-14: Obstacle Avoidance in Unknown Environments Using Depth Information
- Keywords: Safe Planning/Control, Computer Vision, Obstacle Avoidance
- Contact: Matti Vahs (vahs@kth.se)
- Start: Jan '23
2022-12-14: Model Predictive Control for Spatio-temporal Missions
- Keywords: Safe Planning/Control, MPC, STL
- Contact: Matti Vahs (vahs@kth.se)
- Start: Jan '23
2022-12-14: Is my Robot Safe? Verification of Robotic Systems in the Presence of Uncertainties
- Keywords: Verification, STL, State Estimation
- Contact: Matti Vahs (vahs@kth.se)
- Start: Jan '23
2022-12-07: Understanding Human Engagement using Transformers.
- Keywords: HRI, Machine learning, Affective computing
- Contact: Youssef Mohamed (ymo@kth.se)
- Start: Jan/Feb '23

2022-11-16: How to detect and change the style of the objects in AR.
- Keywords: computer vision, VR/AR, machine learning, human-robot interaction, ROS
- Contact: Maciej Wozniak (maciejw@kth.se)
- Start: ASAP (Jan '23)

2022-11-16: Efficiently re-create and visualize objects in VR/AR environment.
- Keywords: computer vision, VR/AR, machine learning, human-robot interaction, ROS
- Contact: Maciej Wozniak (maciejw@kth.se)
- Start: ASAP (Jan '23)

2022-11-16: Using multiple agents to collaboratively create and interact in VR/AR environment.
- Keywords: computer vision, VR/AR, machine learning, human-robot interaction, ROS
- Contact: Maciej Wozniak (maciejw@kth.se)
- Start: ASAP (Jan '23)

2022-11-16: Improve perception abilities of the last-mile delivery robot (joined project between KTH- TUH Hamburg).
- Keywords: computer vision, machine learning, robotics, ROS
- Contact: Maciej Wozniak (maciejw@kth.se)
- Start: ASAP (Jan '23)

2022-11-08: Learning Fruit Handling Skills from Human Demonstrations
- Keywords: robot manipulation, machine learning, human-robot interaction
- Contact: Hang Yin
- Start: anytime

2022-11-01: Modelling humans’ perception of robots with Bayesian inference
- Keywords: explainable AI, bayesian inference, human-robot interaction
- Contact: Elmira Yadollahi
- Start: anytime

2022-11-01: Adapting robot failure explanations to the user's need
- Keywords: explainable AI, fault recovery, datasets, machine learning
- Contact: Elmira Yadollahi
- Start: January 2023

2022-11-01: Human Factors involved in explainability in Autonomous driving
- Keywords: explainable AI, autonomous vehicle, human-vehicle interaction
- Contact: Elmira Yadollahi
- Start: anytime

2022-10-25: Feature Detection on Side-scan Sonar Image
- Keywords: Side-scan Sonar, AUV, Feature Detection and Association, SLAM;
- Contact: Jun Zhang <juzhang@kth.se>
- Start: anytime

2022-10-04: Discovery of novel plankton species from visual images
- Keywords: plankton, novel class discovery, image classification, self-supervised learning
- Contact: Josephine Sullivan <sullivan@kth.se>
- Start: Before mid-Jan 2023

2021-11-24: Reachability Analysis for Occlusion Reasoning in Real Autonomous Driving Scenarios
- Keywords: Reachability Analysis, Motion Precision, 3D Occupancy, Autonomous Driving Datasets
- Contact: Ajinkya Khoche , khoche@kth.se
- Start: anytime
2021-11-17: Evaluation of graph representations for cloth deformable objects in a contrastive learning framework
- Keywords: Graph Representations, Deformable Objects, Robotics
- Contact: Marco Moletta , Alexander Kravchenko
- Start: anytime

2021-11-11: Investigating the Link between Human's Mental Model and Robot's Explainability
- Keywords: Robotics, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Modelling, Explainability, Human-Robot Interaction
- Contact: Elmira Yadollahi
- Start: anytime

2021-11-11: Developing Modalities for Social Robots to Promote Prosocial Behaviors
- Keywords: Robotics, Perspective Taking, Prosocial Behaviour, Machine Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
- Contact: Elmira Yadollahi
- Start: anytime

2022-10-29: Designing Robot-Mediated Gamified Activities for Inclusive Group Practices
- Keywords: Robotics, Gamification, Game Design, Human-Robot Interaction
- Contact: Arzu Guneysu Ozgur
- Start: anytime
2021-10-29: Frustration Recognition During Robot-enhanced Gamified Training

Keywords: Affect Recognition, Machine Learning, Robotics , Human-Robot Interaction
Contact: Arzu Guneysu Ozgur , Youssef Mohamed
Start: anytime

2021-10-04: Machine learning for pilot decision support
- Keywords: Machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Aeronautics, Decision making, Robotics
- Contact: Edvards Scukins
- Start: January 2022

2021-09-30: Automatic Fault Detection and Recovery for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) using Behavior Trees
- Keywords: Fault Detection, Behavior Trees, AUVs, Automatic Recovery, Robotics
- Contact: Ozer Ozkahraman
- Start: anytime

2022-10-05: Automatic Fault Detection and Recovery with MULTIPLE Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
- Keywords: Fault Detection, Behavior Trees, AUVs, Automatic Recovery, Multi-agent Systems, Robotics
- Contact: Ozer Ozkahraman
- Start: anytime

2022-10-05:: Deformable Object State Representation and Prediction from Video with Deep Learning
- Keywords: Deep Learning, Gans, VAEs, Robotics
- Contact: Florian Pokorny
- Start: anytime

2021-09-24: Deep Learning for Fast Approximation of Geometric Robotic Manipulation Methods and Fixturing
- Keywords: deep learning, robotics
- Contact: Florian Pokorny
- Start: any time

2021-09-24: Geometric Deep Learning and Equivariant Transformations
- Keywords: foundations of deep learning
- Contact: Florian Pokorny
- Start: any time
2021-09-24: Projects in Topological Data Analysis
- Keywords: foundations of machine learning, requires solid linear algebra and mathematics background
- Contact: Florian Pokorny
- Start: any time

2020-09-03: Hierarchical Clustering of Signal Temporal Logic Formulae
- Keywords: Signal Temporal Logic, Machine learning, Hierarchical Clustering
- Contact: Alexis Linard, Christian Pek
2020-09-03: STL Satisfaction Visualization for Temporal Logic Inference
- Keywords: Signal Temporal Logic, Machine learning, Optimization
- Contact: Christian Pek, Alexis Linard
2020-09-03: Planning and Execution of UAV Trajectories for Indoor Dust Removal
- Keywords: UAV, path planning, control, vacuum cleaning robot, model predictive control
- Contact: Chris Sprague
2020-09-03: System Identification for Adaptive Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Keywords: AUV, adaptive control, machine learning
- Contact: Chris Sprague

2020-09-03: Signed Distance Fields Octree Mapping
- Keywords: 3D Mapping
- Contact: Daniel Duberg