Contributed by: Laura Ferranti, l.ferranti@tudelft.nl
PhD Position in Private and Secure Robot Coordination at Delft University of Technology
Autonomous robots (such as cars, vessels, and drones) will be widespread in our daily lives, aiming at reducing pollution while improving traffic efficiency and safety. While these technologies have the potential to revolutionize our urban mobility, societal concerns in terms of safety, security, and privacy can overshadow their benefits. The goal of this PhD position is to design a cooperation framework to allow autonomous robots to safely navigate without revealing private information and while dealing with faults and attacks. We will employ tools for secure multi-party computation, multi-variant execution, and distributed numerical optimization to design this novel cooperation framework.
Experiments on real autonomous robots (e.g., ground robots) will demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design.
In this project, as a PhD candidate, you will investigate how to design a coordination algorithm for mobile robots that: (1) deals with the robots sharing private information in real time; (2) is resilient to faults and attacks.
Requirements: You have a MSc degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Robotics, Systems and Control, or a related field. You have strong analytical skills and must be able to work at the intersection of several research domains. Good programming skills and experience with programming languages such as Python and C++ are of foremost importance. Excellent command of the English language is required, as well as excellent communication skills. Candidates with a strong track record in privacy-preserving algorithms, cyber-physical systems security, numerical optimization, or robotics are especially encouraged to apply. Experience with applied cryptography is a strong plus.
Additional information: For more information about this vacancy, visit the vacancy website at the following link:
https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=
1879&jobTitle=PhD%20Position%20Private%20and%20Secure%20Robot%20Coordination
