Post date: May 24, 2012 8:51:01 AM
Open position in Robotics for PhD Student. *Deadline for application : June 11th, 2012*
*Planning and navigation techniques for multi-robot teams in navigability maps *
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Robotics, Perception and Real-Time Lab at the I3A, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) is looking for PhD student candidates with excellent academic qualifications interested in pursuing a PhD in the context of projects focused on multi-robot navigation and perception techniques in large and dynamic environments. The research will be achieved within the Lab whose main research topics are robot motion planning and navigation, multi-robot systems, task planning and allocation, SLAM, computer vision, perception systems, and learning.
How to apply
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If interested, please send:
1- C.V.
2- Motivation letter (career plan, motivation for PhD, statement of research interest)
3- Copy of original study certificates with list of subjects, grades, and scale (indicate min, max, and pass threshold for your class) for Master degree, Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or similar.
4- Copy of international publications, if available (max 3).
5- Two references, including the email and phone contact details
*Deadline for application : June 11th, 2012
Send to: montano.phd.position.12 at gmail.com *
Requirements:
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Academic: Excellent academic grades.
- Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Maths or Physics.
- Master degree in the related areas will be valuable but not imperative.
Background: Knowledge in robotics, motion planning, sensors.
- Previous experience in robot navigation, perception systems, multi-robot systems, sensor fusion, vision is valuable
- Programming skills in Matlab, C++ and ROS platform is valuable.
Nationality requirements: European Citizen or European residence permission.
Contract Type: Phd. Student Grant.
Position: Phd. Student
Start Date: September 1, 2012
Duration in months: 48
Salary: As determined by regulations of the Spanish PhD Student Grants (around 1200 euros/month)
Town: Zaragoza
Country: Spain
Place of Work: Universidad de Zaragoza, Aragon Institute of Engineering Research. Zaragoza.
*Research Topic: Planning and navigation techniques for multi-robot teams in navigability maps.*
The research will address the problem of cooperative motion planning and navigation for multi-robot teams in navigability maps. The classical approaches of navigation planning in occupancy maps and uncertain maps only represent the occupancy and the geometric uncertainty in the environment. This research will extend to multi-robot motion planning in maps where, in addition to the occupancy of the static and dynamic obstacles and their uncertainty, other information will be modeled, such as maps of communications in the areas of signal coverage to maintain a given quality (QoS), and / or information about the likely of finding relevant objects or places in the scene.
This information will guide the planning of the trajectories for multi-robot systems within areas where it is likely to find the objects or places searched, or to have a good communication and DGPS coverage. A model to represent that coherent and consistent heterogeneous information will be established. It will be oriented to motion planning with minimal risk or maximum success probability. Probabilistic techniques will be used to represent information and to make coordinated navigation decisions consistent with the sensorial information.
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LUIS MONTANO GELLA
Robotics, Perception, and Real-Time Group
Departamento de Informatica e Ingenieria de Sistemas
Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón
Universidad de Zaragoza
Edificio Ada Byron, María de Luna, 1
E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain
Tel: (+34) 976 76 19 54
Fax: (+34) 976 76 19 14
E-mail: montano@unizar.es
http://webdiis.unizar.es/~lmontano/
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