Theses for bachelor and master students

We offer projects and theses for bachelor and master students currently enrolled at TU Darmstadt. Below are non-exhaustive lists of open, ongoing, and past projects and theses. If you are interested in doing a project or thesis with our group, you are welcome to contact Marco Zimmerling. Note that we receive more requests than we are able to supervise. To maximize your chances, please provide relevant background information as part of your request including:

  • most importantly, a list of networked embedded systems topics you are most interested in;
  • a transcript of your grades, study status (semester, bachelor or master), and courses attended;
  • a brief description of any past projects and/or industry experience you may have;
  • any particular skill (e.g., PCB design) or programming experience (e.g., MCU or FPGA);
  • a short explanation as to why you are interested in doing a project in our group, in particular.

If you are particularly excited about a specific topic, or even have your own research idea to propose, then please tell us about it as well. This background information will allow us to ensure a good alignment of your interests and skills with the goals of a particular topic, which goes a long way to make projects and theses a successful and enjoyable experience for everyone.

Available projects and theses

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for available projects.

Ongoing projects and theses

Past projects and theses

At TU Darmstadt

  • Development of a Cost-efficient and Scalable Localization System for High-density Battery Module Production in the Automotive Industry
    Julian Mathes (master thesis), 2024.

At University of Freiburg

  • Runtime Behavior Prediction of Low-powerWireless Network Protocols using Probabilistic Model Checking Approaches
    Niklas Tittjung (master thesis), 2023.
  • Design and Implementation of a Battery-free GNSS Receiver
    Bastian Harder (master thesis, 2023.
  • Enabling Protocol Logic Emulation with the TrafficBench Tool Suite
    Jannik Maeder (master thesis), 2023.
  • Automated Production Line for the TecDays
    Marco Beck (study project), 2023.
  • Experimental Validation of Theoretical Outage Probability Predictions in Low-power Wireless Mesh Networks
    Niklas Tittjung (study project), 2023.
  • Design and Implementation of a Vision-based Environmental Monitoring System
    Pavan Shashikant Joshi (master thesis), 2023.
  • Development of a Network Simulator to Analyze Communication Strategies in WSN
    Prasad Ramachandra Lakshmi (master thesis), 2023.
  • Vibration Data Forecasting and Anomaly Detection for Industrial Ventilators
    Sachin Shibu Dominic (master thesis), 2022.
  • Development of a Data Logger for the Secure Data Transfer with Electrical Actuators
    Dominic Rueb (bachelor thesis), 2022.
  • Design and Implementation of a Sound-based Environmental Monitoring System
    Shreyas Manoj Kotian (study project), 2022.
  • Semi-automatic Labeling of Events in Energy Data
    Victor Marchat (study project), 2022.

At TU Dresden

  • Network Management in Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems
    Prateek Gautam (master thesis), 2020.
  • Utility-dependent Energy Management on Real Sensor Nodes
    Justus Paulick (diploma thesis), 2019.
  • Kalman Filter Design for Channel State Tracking in IEEE 802.15.4 Multi-Packet Receivers
    Tim Taubert (diploma thesis), 2019.
  • Enabling Cross-technology Communication in the 2.4 GHz ISM Band
    Alex Bereza (diploma thesis), 2017. See paper at EWSN’17.
    GI KuVS Best MSc Thesis Award.
  • Network Coding in Low-power Wireless Multi-hop Networks
    Johannes Neumann (diploma thesis), 2016. See paper at SenSys’16.
  • Real-time Scheduling on Resource-constrained Embedded Devices
    Javier Acevedo (master thesis), 2016.

At ETH Zurich

  • Making Sense of FlockLab Testbed Data
    Andreas Buechel (semester thesis), 2014.
  • A Voice-activated Wireless Patient Monitoring System
    Reto Da Forno (master thesis), 2013.
  • Wireless Yet Reliable Patient Notification System: GUI and Backend
    Reto Da Forno (semester thesis), 2013. See paper at SenSys’13.
  • Timely Localization and Multi-Object Tracking for Sensor Networks
    Nemanja Popovic (master thesis), 2012.
  • Interface Development for Next Generation FlockLab
    Dominic Just (semester thesis), 2011.
  • Push vs. Pull in Wireless Sensor Networks
    David Hasenfratz (master thesis), 2010. See paper at SenSys’10.
  • Implementation of an Adaptive Dissemination Protocol on Sensor Nodes
    Dmitry Lukyantsev (semester thesis), 2010.