Potential thesis projects

1. Door opening (and closing) with planning involved. E.g. have the robot reason about: 'does it take more time to open the door on the shortest path, or is taking the long way around but with likely opened doors already faster?' The robot can learn which doors are typically open from observation over (extended) time. Consider how long it takes to open a (specific) door.

2. Figure out how to open linear and revolving doors, maybe using reinforcement learning in simulation and then transfer to reality.

3. View planning: which viewpoint(s) to take to be reasonably sure you've seen everything or something is really not there.