Student Thesis / Bachelor's Thesis / Master's Thesis: VLA-based Robot Manipulation
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft · Augsburg
ThesisGerman needed: not said
Still open on 2 NovKey facts
- Pay
- Paid by Fraunhofer's pay rules for student helpers
- Job starts
- As soon as possible
- Subject you study
- Engineering, Computer Science
What you'll do
- Extend a simulation-based training pipeline for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in NVIDIA Isaac Sim with domain randomization
- Integrate ROS2 (MoveIt2, Rosbag2) to control and automatically record data for manipulation tasks (pick and place, bin picking, joining)
- Convert recorded data into the LeRobot/HuggingFace dataset format and train or fine-tune VLA models (e.g. SmolVLA, X-VLA)
- Run systematic experiments (ablation studies, hyperparameter optimisation) and document the results scientifically
What you need
- Studies in engineering or computer science
- Programming skills in Python or C++
- First experience with robotics
- First experience with artificial intelligence
- Reliable and independent way of working
What you get
- Flexible working hours
- Excellent equipment
- The chance to actively help shape VLA-based robot control
- Work in a friendly, motivated team on exciting research projects
- Responsible tasks with a lot of room to shape your work