Contributed by: George Nikolakopoulos, geonik@ltu.se
Two PhD students in Robotics and Artificial intelligence
The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) (www.ltu.se/robotics) subject at the department of Computer Science and Electrical and Space Engineering at Lule°a University of Technology, Sweden is now looking for two PhD students contributing to our growing activities.
The RAI team is conducting fundamental research in all the aspects of robotics with a specific focus on aerial, space and softrobotics. The vision of RAI is aiming in closing the gap from theory to real life, while the team has a strong expertise in field robotics. Specific application areas of focus are robotics for mines, aerial inspection of aging infrastructure, multi-robotic search and rescue, multi sensorial fusion and multirobot coordination, including multirobot perception, decentralization and mission execution.
The RAI team has a strong European participation in multiple R&D&I projects, while RAI is also participating in the DARPASUB-T challenge with the CoSTAR Team lead by NASA/JPL (https://costar.jpl.nasa.gov/) and has an R&D research agenda withHONDAResearch Institute in Japan (https://www.jp.honda-ri.com/en/).
Research topics: The PhD candidates will be working in the field of aerial robotics and their activities will be linked with European R&D Projects and the SubT challenge in the general field of multi-vehicle collaborative perception and exploration of unknown and non-structured areas (Tunnels, Urban and Caves).
The research topic is in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. More specifically, the position will involve dense research activities in the area of designing, experimenting and theoretical control development in the area of UAVs. The specific two research topics include:
Research Topic #1 AI and Motion planning Robotics
Reinforcement learning for collaborative multi robot team deployment
Advanced AI for mission planner for team of hybrid robots
Deep learning for localization
Multi sensor fusion framework
Motion planning for dynamic and uncertain environments
Multi-Robot global/local motion planning
Exploration of unknown and unstructured environments
Proactive & Reactive Obstacle Avoidance
Robot interaction and collaboration between different types of robots
Research Topic #2 Perception based Robotics
Collaborative vision for robotics
Collaborative Mapping and Exploration
Simultaneous localization, path planning and exploration
Multi-Modal Mapping
Multi Session Mapping
Multi robot cooperative object detection
Real-time perception systems for guidance and control
For applications please follow this link:
https://www.ltu.se/ltu/Lediga-jobb/Lediga-jobb-1.107417?l=en
Job Reference: 61-2021
Kind Regards,
George Nikolakopoulos
Professor and Chair for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Robotics Team: https://www.ltu.se/robotics
CoSTAR Team: https://costar.jpl.nasa.gov/
ARTEMIS Scientific Council Member - https://artemis-ia.eu/
SPIRE Task Force Member - https://www.spire2030.eu/
Web: www.gnikolak.com
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Lule°a University of Technology
SE-97187 Lule°a, SWEDEN
Email: geonik@ltu.se
Tel:0046(0)920-49 1298
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