If you are interested in writing your bachelor or master thesis or doing a project work at the Institute smartPORT, feel free to contact our staff. We permanently offer a list of currently open theses and projects. We are also open for students' thesis suggestions, if they suit the field of work of our institute. To get an impression, we recommend you to have a look at current theses and our list of past theses.

Open Theses

Project Works

• A new Home for the ahoi Modem, a low-power Acoustic Underwater Modem 
  Contact: Fabian Steinmetz

Bachelor Theses

• How to Charge Supercaps (also possible as project work)
  Contact: Lars Hanschke

Master Theses

Currently none available

Ongoing Theses

Project Works

• Impedance Matching on Piezoelectic Transducers for Acoustic Backscatter Communication
  Contact: Peter Oppermann

Bachelor Theses

• Modeling and Experimental System Identification of an Underwater Vehicle 
  Contact: Christian Busse

• Centralized Calibration of an Underwater Localization System 
  Contact: Fabian Steinmetz

Master Theses

• Robust Navigation of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
  Contact: Christian Busse

• Chirp-Receiver for Acoustic Underwater Communication
  Contact: Fabian Steinmetz

Completed Theses

Master Theses

• Konzeption und Analyse eines Heizsystems für Lithium-Ionen-Batterien
  Student: Jannick Brockmann
  Contact: Prof. Bernd-Christian Renner
• FPGA-Accelerated Signal Processing for a Tiny, Low-Power Acoustic Underwater Modem 
  Student: Sven Wrieden
  Contact: Prof. Bernd-Christian Renner

• Driverless Path Planning for a Formula Student Car 
  Student: Maxim Yastremsky
  Contact: Prof. Bernd-Christian Renner

• Comparison and Evaluation of Prediction Algorithms using Solar-Energy-Harvesting 
  Student: Eahab Issac
  Contact: Lars Hanschke

• Chirp Modulation for a Low-Power Acoustic Underwater Modem 
  Student: Fabian Steinmetz
  Contact: Jan Heitmann

• Medium Access Control in Underwater Environments 
  Student: Gabriel Garcia Ramos
  Contact: Jan Heitmann

• WiFi-Enabled and Solar-Powered Sensors for Smart Ports
  Student: Jan Heitmann (University of Lübeck)
  Contact: Bernd-Christian Renner

Bachelor Theses

• Modular Software Architecture for an Acoustic Underwater Modem Based on a Cortex-M4 
  Student: Timo Kortbrae
  Contact: Jan Heitmann

• Power Amplifier for a Low-Power Modem for Acoustic Underwater Communication 
  Student: Lucas Bublitz
  Contact: Bernd-Christian Renner

• Adaptive Gain Control for Acoustic Underwater Communication 
  Student: Philipp Bolze (University of Lübeck)
  Contact: Bernd-Christian Renner

Project Works

• Autonomous Navigation for a Small Underwater Vehicle Based on Acoustic Localization 
  Student: Christian Horst
  Contact: Jan Heitmann

• Energy Harvesting on a LoRa-Enabled Environmental Monitoring Buoy 
  Student: Sebastian Stapel
  Contact: Jan Heitmann and Lars Hanschke

• Beyond Energy-aware Rate-based Scheduling 
  Student: Kerem Saka
  Contact: Lars Hanschke

• Finding Dependencies in Program Flows for Energy-Harvesting Systems 
  Student: Mahmoud Sherrah
  Contact: Lars Hanschke

• Online Self-Localization for a Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Based on ToF-Ranging 
  Student: Fabian Steinmetz
  Contact: Jan Heitmann

• Energy-Aware Scheduling and Solar-Harvesting Prediction on an Ultra-Low-Power Co-Processor 
  Student: Alexander Sowarka
  Contact: Lars Hanschke

• Simulations for Wireless Sensor Networks in Sub-1-GHz Bands
  Student: Kaushik Hariharanagarajan
  Contact: Lars Hanschke

• Chirp-Modulation for Resilient Acoustic Underwater Communication
  Student: Ankit Ghosh
  Contact: Bernd-Christian Renner

• Experimentation and Evaluation Support for Acoustic Underwater Communication
  Student: Eahab Isaac
  Contact: Bernd-Christian Renner