Concluded PhD Projects at SDU Robotics

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

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Kinesthetic Teaching for Robotic Assembly

PhD student: Emil Lykke Diget
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

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Situational Awareness and Acceptability of Robots in Shared Environments

PhD student: Avgi Kollakidou
Supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen

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

PhD student: Lakshadeep Naik
Supervisor: Norbert Krüger

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

PhD student: Yitaek Kim
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

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Model-, Simulation-, and Data-Based Control of Gantry-Based Robotic Operations

PhD student: Jens Kristian Mikkelsen
Supervisor: Christian Schlette
Co-supervisor: Luis David Avendaño-Valencia, SDU Mechanical Engineering

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Model-, simulation-, and data-based control of a mobile robot crane platform 

PhD student: Klara Franziska  Schütze
Supervisor: Christian Schlette

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Mobile 3D shotcreting in harsh and space-restricted restricted environments

PhD student: Mohammad Reza Yazdi Samadi
Supervisor: Christian Schlette

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Agile interaction with industrial robots 

PhD student: Jinha Park
Supervisor: Christian Schlette

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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

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Popular abstract describing the completed 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

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Popular abstract describing the completed PhD thesis (August 2023)

Reliable Object Pose Estimation 

PhD student: Rasmus Laurvig Haugaard
Supervisor: Anders Glent Buch

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Agile Service-based Programming of Multi-robot Systems

PhD student: Alberto Sartori
Supervisor: Christian Schlette

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Popular abstract describing the completed 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)