Selected Work

Projects

Jul. 2026Open Sourceagentic-dev-toolkitMy toolkit for agentic code development.Developer ToolsCLIAgent SkillsAutomationCode
Jul. 2026Open Sourceportfolio-siteMy personal site (lukasmueller.dev): Next.js on Cloudflare Workers with a live in-browser mini-vla training demo.Next.jsCloudflareCode
May 2026 - Jun. 2026Open Sourcemini-vlaWhat's the smallest VLA model viable for which task?VLMCode
Jan. – Jun. 2026Aarhus UniversityOptimal versus Heuristic Policies for Electrical Vehicle ChargingHow close can a simple, computation-free charging rule get to the cost-optimal policy for an EV facing uncertain trips and fluctuating electricity prices?Markov Decision ProcessesDynamic ProgrammingEV ChargingCodePaperStreamlit App
Oct. 2025 - Jan. 2026TU Darmstadt (Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group)Support of a Research Project: VLM Evaluation & Domain RandomizationEvaluated open-source vision-language models for robotic perception and built domain randomization for sim-to-real transfer in Isaac Sim.Isaac SimIsaacLabPyTorchVision-Language ModelsDomain Randomization
Oct. 2025 - Mar. 2026TU Darmstadt (Chair of Fluid Systems)Cavitation Experiment DatabaseDatabase Design and Python API Development for High Frequency Experiment Data.PostgreSQLTimescaleDBPythonGitLab CI/CD
Oct. 2025Open SourceMuJoPyA small Python package that gives pythonic, graph-structured access to MuJoCo models — the preprocessing layer from the robot-generation project, factored out into a standalone, pip-installable tool.MuJoCoPythonRobot Learning ToolingCodePyPI
Apr. 2025 – Sep. 2025TU Darmstadt (Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group)Large Scale Robot GenerationCan a variational autoencoder over robot graphs learn a continuous latent space of morphologies, so that thousands of diverse, physically plausible embodiments can be sampled directly from existing robot designs? (Robot Learning Integrated Project, TU Darmstadt)Graph Neural NetworksVariational AutoencoderRobot MorphologyMuJoCoCodePaper
Feb. 2022Open SourceEasy EDA VisualizationsSimple plotting methods extensions for matplotlib/seaborn to speed up the EDA process.pythondata-scienceedapandasmatplotlibseabornCodePyPI
Feb. 2022Udacity Data Scientist NanodegreeAirbnb Price & Review Score Analysis (Boston & Seattle)A linear regression prediction model to gauge the prices of AirBnB locations in Boston and Seattle.Pandasscikit-learnExploratory Data AnalysisLinear RegressionCodeWrite-up