We are announcing one Phd student position for a project devoted to Whole-Body Interactive Mobile Manipulation at the Dept. of Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden. The student will work in an exciting new project lying in the intersection of the areas of robotics and automatic control. The main objective of this project is to endow mobile manipulators with whole-body mobility and interaction functionalities using coordinated control of the mobile platform and the mounted robotic manipulator and address performance, reliability, and safety in dynamic environments. The PhD student project is funded by Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), for more information visit http://wasp-sweden.org/. The student will be part of the WASP graduate school and also be connected to WARA Robotics .
The department of Automatic control has a stimulating and international environment with PhD students, postdocs, and teachers coming from all corners of the world. Research and teaching are conducted in an open and progressive atmosphere with collaborations both within academia and with industry, nationally as well as internationally. A PhD degree from the Department of Automatic control gives you the perfect base for an exciting career, in academia or industry. Lund University and the Department of Automatic Control welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard equality and diversity as a strength and an asset. The student will also be a member of RobotLab at LTH, an experimental arena shared by the Department of Automatic Control and the Department of Computer Science facilitating multidisciplinary research in Robotics.
For more information and application for this position follow the link.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 August 2023
Contact: Yiannis Karayiannidis yiannis@control.lth.se, Björn Olofsson bjorn.olofsson@control.lth.se
