Student Thesis / Bachelor's Thesis / Master's Thesis: VLA-based Robot Manipulation
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft · Augsburg
What you will do
• Extension of a simulation-based training pipeline for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in NVIDIA Isaac Sim with domain randomization • Integration of ROS2 (MoveIt2, Rosbag2) for control and automated data recording of manipulation tasks (pick & place, bin picking, joining) • Conversion of recorded data into the LeRobot/HuggingFace dataset format and training or fine-tuning of VLA models (e.g., SmolVLA, X-VLA) • Conducting systematic experiments (ablation studies, hyperparameter optimization) and scientific documentation of results
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 working style