The Theses of the first round revealed high motivation and hard working of SpaceMasters which concluded with high-quality Thesis reports. The Theses were examined by professors Aarne Halme from TKK and Kalevi Hyyppä from Luleå. Laboratory personnel as personal instructorors for the students were Seppo Heikkilä, Peter Jakubik, Jussi Suomela, Pekka Forsman, Ilkka Leppänen and Tomi Ylikorpi.

The following Thesis topics were given to the first round students:

• Hannes Filippi, Wireless Teleoperation of Robotic Arms, abstract , Video in YouTube (uploaded by LUMA), Large video (8.6 Meg WMV)
• Jamshed Iqbal, Tether Tracking and Control of ROSA Robotic Rover, abstract ,
• Jason Allan, The Design of an Energy Management System, abstract ,
• Misbahur Rehman Saad, State Estimation Technique for a Planetary Rover, abstract ,
• Poornima Muralidhar, Development of Mobility System for Marsokhod Rover, abstract ,
• Zhongliang HU, Study and Implementation of Wheel Walking for a Mars Rover, abstract ,
• Stephan Busch, Design and Implementation of a Stereo Vision Based Navigation System for the Micro-RoSA-2 Mars Rover, abstract ,
• Eric Halbach, Development of a Simulator for Modeling Robotic Earth-Moving Tasks, abstract ,