Teaching activities

Courses and seminars

Lectures
  • SoSe 2026: "Learning for multi-robot systems" University of Konstanz.
  • SoSe 2025: "Learning for multi-robot systems" University of Konstanz.
  • WiSe 2024/25: "AI for autonomous robotics" University of Konstanz.
Seminars
  • SoSe 2026: "Cyber-physical systems seminar" University of Konstanz.
  • WiSe 2025/26: "Cyber-physical systems seminar" University of Konstanz.
  • SoSe 2025: "Cyber-physical systems seminar" University of Konstanz.
  • WiSe 2024/25: "Cyber-physical systems seminar" University of Konstanz.
  • SoSe 2024: "Cyber-physical systems seminar" University of Konstanz.
  • WiSe 2023/24: "Cyber-physical systems seminar" University of Konstanz.
Projects
  • since 2024: "Bachelor's/Master's project robot swarm learning" University of Konstanz.
  • 2023-2024: "Bachelor's/Master's project cyber-physical systems" University of Konstanz.
  • 2018-2023: "PROJ-H-402: Computing project" Université libre de Bruxelles.

Supervised Master Thesis

Ongoing
  • Benedict da Silva Araújo Finsterwalder: "From simple actions to coordinated building: incremental evolution and skill acquisition of behavior trees in Minecraft" University of Konstanz.
Concluded
  • Yannick Wesseloh: "Active inference based task allocation for interdependent tasks in swarm robotics" (2025) University of Konstanz, with Prof. Heiko Hamann, Paolo Leopardi.
  • Elâ Ipekli: "Investigating the impact of individualized controllers in the automatic design of heterogeneous robot swarms" (2025) University of Konstanz, with Prof. Hamann.
  • Julian Jandeleit: "Training LLMs to translate mission descriptions in natural language into controller for robot swarms" (2025) University of Konstanz, with Prof. Hamann.
  • Gabriel Aguirre: "Adaptive behavior in hazardous environments for swarm robotics" (2025)  University of Konstanz, with Prof. Hamann, Simay Atasoy Bingöl.
  • Ilyes Gharbi: "Mission specification for robot swarms through virtual reality" (2021/2022) Université libre de Bruxelles, with Prof. Mauro Birattari, David Garzón Ramos, Miquel Kegeleirs.
  • Ammar Hasan: "Building an integrated framework for the automatic modular design of robot swarms" (2021/2022) Université libre de Bruxelles, with Prof. Mauro Birattari, David Garzón Ramos, Miquel Kegeleirs.
  • Raffaele Todesco: "RVR: a new robot platform for swarm robotics research" (2021/2022) Université libre de Bruxelles, with Prof. Mauro Birattari, David Garzón Ramos, Miquel Kegeleirs.
  • Franck Trouillez: "Distributed vision system using cooperative scene recognition with a robot swarm" (2021/2022) Université libre de Bruxelles, with Prof. Mauro Birattari, David Garzón Ramos, Miquel Kegeleirs.
  • Vincent van Pelt: "Automatic modular design of control software in robot swarms: Towards exploitation of behaviour trees features" (2019/2020) Université libre de Bruxelles, with Prof. Mauro Birattari.
  • Keneth Ubeda Arriaza: "Design of robot swarms by optimization: An instance of AutoMoDe based on simulated annealing" (2018/2019) Université libre de Bruxelles, with Prof. Mauro Birattari.

Supervised Bachelor Thesis

Ongoing
    Concluded
    • Max Oltmanns: "Empirical evaluation of open-endedness in large-scale collectives" (2026) University of Konstanz.
    • Ben Kröner: "Automatic modular design for the Turtlebot4" (2026) University of Konstanz.
    • Elias Maier: "Classification of robot swarm behaviors using autoencoders" (2025) University of Konstanz.
    • Mattes Kraus: "Generative adversarial imitation learning in a multi-agent TurtleBot simulation" (2025) University of Konstanz.
    • Adrian Sopio: "Hysteresis effects and online detection of congestion in robot swarms" (2025) University of Konstanz.
    • Odin Weber: "Spatial decision making in dynamic environments with multiple features" (2025) University of Konstanz.
    • Lukas Sonnenmoser: "Utilizing reaction-diffusion systems and initial value problems for pattern generation in a robot swarm" (2024) University of Konstanz, with Prof. Hamann.
    • Henri Grotzeck: "Autoencoder-PPO approach for predator-prey learning in simulation and reality" (2023) University of Konstanz, with Prof. Hamann.

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    Jonas Kuckling
    jonas.kuckling@uni-konstanz.de

    Universität Konstanz
    Universitätsstraße 10
    78464 Konstanz, Germany

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