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Concluded PhD Projects at SDU Robotics

 

Behavior Adaptation for Human-Robot Collaboration

PhD student: Emilia T. J. S. Pietras
Supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen

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Sensor based process and quality control for dry fiber layups on blades for wind turbines

PhD student: Jonathan Bøss
Supervisor: Jakob Wilm
Co-supervisor: Henrik Gordon Petersen from SDU Robotics

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Modeling and Control of Flexible Robots Subject to Large Loads: Application to Remote Handling

PhD student: Younghwa Park 
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

Read the PhD thesis (July 2026)

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A deep reinforcement learning framework with priors for achieving wheel loader automatic bucket loading task

Industrial PhD student: Chengyandan Shen 
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth
The PhD project is carried out in collaboration with Unicontrol ApS.

Read the PhD thesis (October 2025)


Sensorless Torque Estimation on Robot Joints with Strain Wave Gears

Industrial PhD student: Søren Goddiksen Graabæk
Supervisors: Christoffer Sloth and Henrik Gordon Petersen
Co-supervisors: Rune Søe-Knudsen and Anders Lange from Universal Robots

Read the PhD thesis (March 2025)


Kinesthetic Teaching for Robotic Assembly

PhD student: Emil Lykke Diget
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

Read the PhD thesis (October 2024)


Situational Awareness and Acceptability of Robots in Shared Environments

PhD student: Avgi Kollakidou
Supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen 

Read the PhD thesis (October 2024)


Pre-grasp planning for time-efficient and robust mobile manipulation

PhD student: Lakshadeep Naik
Supervisor: Norbert Krüger

Read the PhD thesis (August 2024)


Fast Setup of Robotic Material Processing with Quality Guarantees using Set Invariance

PhD student: Yitaek Kim
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

Read the PhD thesis (April 2024) 


Unlocking the Potential of Electronic Health Records With Danish Clinical Language Models for Text Mining

PhD student:  Jannik Skyttegaard Pedersen
Supervisors: Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu  and Pernille Just Vinholt, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, OUH

Read the PhD thesis (August 2023) 


Mining Electronic Health Records: Turning Unstructured Text into Research Data Using Natural Language Processing

PhD student: Martin Sundahl Laursen
Supervisors: Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu  and Pernille Just Vinholt, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, OUH

Read the PhD thesis (August 2023)  


Reliable Object Pose Estimation 

PhD student: Rasmus Laurvig Haugaard
Supervisor: Anders Glent Buch

Read the PhD thesis (August 2023)


Agile Service-based Programming of Multi-robot Systems

PhD student: Alberto Sartori
Supervisor: Christian Schlette

Read the PhD thesis (August 2023)


New Methods for Automated Generation of Robot Programs for Assembly of Injection Devices

Industrial PhD student: Steffen Madsen
Supervisor: Henrik Gordon Petersen
Co-supervisor: Milad Jami, Novo Nordisk. The PhD project is carried out in collaboration with Novo Nordisk.

Read the PhD thesis (May 2023)


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Last Updated 03.11.2026