We are announcing one Phd student position in In-Hand Object Tracking using Haptic Feedback at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The student will work in an exciting new project lying in the intersection of the areas of robotics, machine learning and automatic control, and specialize in haptic perception, state estimation and object tracking. Haptic object state estimation is important for developing reactive planning and control strategies for in-hand object manipulation. The research conducted by the student aims at: a) proposing a learning-based haptic perception framework for tracking the state of an object located in the robotic hand, also addressing uncertainty due to external contacts, b) combining data-driven and physics-based models to address data-efficiency under uncertainty.
The PhD student project is funded by Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) which is Sweden's largest individual research program, and provides a platform for academic research and education, fostering interaction with Sweden's leading companies (for more information visit http://wasp-sweden.org/ ).
The position is with the Mechatronics research group in the division of Systems and Control, Electrical Eng. at Chalmers University of Technology. The candidate will work under the supervision of senior researchers with background in robotics namely robot control, perception, manipulation and grasping, automatic control and optimization. There will also be opportunities for collaboration with other researchers under the umbrella of WASP.
For more information and application for this position follow the link.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 August 2021
Contact: Yiannis Karayiannidis yiannis@chalmers.se
