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Funded positions for MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral studies in medical robotics at the University of Alberta

Motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows preferably with
past experience in medical robotics and especially robot-assisted
percutaneous therapy are invited to study at the University of
Alberta. The research projects are highly multidisciplinary and aim to
develop robotics technologies that allow brachytherapists to place
implants with high accuracy, repeatability and reliability during
prostate brachytherapy. All research will be carried out in a
collaboration setting between the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering (Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group;
http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~tbs), the Department of Oncology, and the
Alberta Health Services? Cross Cancer Institute. You will work in a
multidisciplinary environment involving engineers, clinicians,
scientists, hospitals, and healthcare companies. For MSc and PhD
students, the degree-granting department will be Electrical and
Computer Engineering and the start date will be September 2013 (or
January 2014 under exceptional circumstances). For postdoctoral
fellows, the start date is negotiable.



The research will require a strong theoretical background as well as
hands-on experience in as many of the following areas as possible:
robotics especially dynamics and motion planning, electromechanical
systems, system modeling and control, (medical) image processing,
C/C++ programming, statistical data analysis, human-machine
interaction, and mechanical design especially medical device
design/construction.



If you are interested in being considered, please email the following
documents as soon as possible and no later than May 15, 2013 to
<mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca>: (1) a CV, including a brief (300-500
word) research statement, (2) transcripts of previous university
degrees, (3) representative publications in electronic format, and (4)
the contact information of three individuals who can serve as
references. You will be contacted if there is sufficient interest in
your application. Scholarship decisions will follow an interview
during which detailed information regarding the research project will
be provided. Successful candidates will have degrees in
electrical/computer/mechanical engineering, computer science, or
physics, good time management and writing skills, and the ability to
work effectively with other researchers. Competitive salaries will be
offered to the successful candidates.


Regards,
Mahdi Tavakoli

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Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, PEng | Office: W2-004 ECERF Building
Assistant Professor | Phone: 780-492-8935
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Fax: 780-492-1811
University of Alberta | Email: mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca
Edmonton, Alberta | http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~mtavakol
Canada T6G 2V4 | http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~TBS (lab)

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Ph.D. Student Openings in Robot Vision - University of Arkansas

The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (http://ualr.edu/cxye/laboratory.htm)
of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has two Ph.D. student openings
for Fall 2013. The successful candidate will develop 3D robot vision methods
based on a 3D Flash LIDAR Camera. The research team will work on a wide
range of research problems on robot vision, including 6-DOF pose estimation
by computer vision, terrain mapping, 3D data segmentation, and autonomous
navigation. General guideline of admission to graduate study is referred to
http://ualr.edu/enss/. The lab currently hosts research funded by the
National Science Foundation and NASA and supports 4 Ph.D. students.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a dynamic metropolitan
university locating at the state's capital city, Little Rock
(http://www.littlerock.com). Applicants should hold a degree in electrical
engineering, computer science, or related fields. Desired skills include
programming in C/C++ and Matlab, image processing, 3D computer vision. To
apply, contact Dr. Cang Ye (cxye@ualr.edu) with detailed CV and copies of
transcript(s), TOEFL and GRE.

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Cang Ye, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Systems Engineering
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave, EIT 536
Little Rock, AR 72204
Phone: (501) 683-7284 Fax: (501) 569-8698 Google Voice: (501) 237-1818
Email: cxye@ualr.edu
http://www.ualr.edu/cxye

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Post-Doc/RA position - Modular Reconfigurable and Evolutionary Robotic Systems

Detailed information:
http://naturalrobotics.group.shef.ac.uk/UOS006388.html

The University of Sheffield, Department of Automatic Control and Systems
Engineering

We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate (postdoctoral researcher)
to work on the EPSRC-sponsored project 'Evo-Bots - From Intelligent
Building Blocks to Living Things':
http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant...f=EP/K033948/1

This post offers an outstanding opportunity to work with a
multidisciplinary team of researchers. Our long-term vision is to create
the first non-biological living system through evolution in the natural
world. The project takes arguably a radical approach: creating living
systems by synthesising their building blocks from scratch. The research
programme will study Evo-bots, which are energy-autonomous mobile robots
/ mechatronic modules. Evo-bots control when to move; however, their
direction of motion is entirely dictated by the environment. By
controlling how Evo-bots physically interact with each other (a process
called self-assembly), the system can give rise to novel forms of life
and its evolution.

The post holder will be working in Dr Roderich Gross' Natural Robotics
Lab (http://naturalrobotics.group.shef.ac.uk). The lab is part of the
Sheffield Centre for Robotics (http://www.scentro.ac.uk), which offers a
brand-new robotics laboratory of ca. 800 sq m.

The position will incur a regular exchange with and visits of Dr
Francesco Mondada's group at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology), Lausanne, Switzerland. http://mobots.epfl.ch/

Applicants should have a good honours degree, hold, or be near
completion of, a PhD (or equivalent research experience) in a related
discipline such as robotics, mechatronics, electrical engineering,
mechanical engineering, or computer science, and have a track record of
research and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. The
successful applicant will have knowledge in system design, rapid
prototyping, embedded computing, sensors and their processing, actuators
and their control and have good overall IT skills. Previous research
experience in the design, implementation and study of miniature
robotic/mechatronic systems is highly desirable.

The post is fixed-term from 1 June 2013 to 1 August 2014.

Salary in the range: ?28,685 to ?30,424 per annum

Closing Date: 15th May 2013

The University of Sheffield is committed to achieving excellence through
inclusion. We are an Athena Bronze SWAN Award winner, a Stonewall
Diversity Champion and a Two Ticks Employer.

To apply, visit https://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs (Job reference number:
UOS006388). Please note that pop-up windows must not be blocked!

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Roderich GROSS, PhD SMIEEE
Lecturer and Head of the Natural Robotics Lab
Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/staff/roderich-gross

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2 PhD Studentships in Cognitive vision/robotics School of Computing University of Leeds UK

Two PhD studentships are available funded by a new EU grant, STRANDS:
Spatial-Temporal Representations and Activities For Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios. Leeds is a partner in this multi site project, and is particularly concerned with developing appropriate qualitative spatio-temporal representations and with learning activity models in a long term temporal setting. The other partners in the consortium are the Universities of Birmingham (coordinating node), Lincoln, Vienna, RWTH Aachen, and KTH Stockholm.

STRANDS aims to enable a robot to achieve robust and intelligent behaviour in human environments through adaptation to, and the exploitation of, long-term experience. Our approach is based on understanding 3D space and how it changes over time, from milliseconds to months. We will develop novel approaches to extract quantitative and qualitative spatio-temporal structure from sensor data gathered during months of autonomous operation. Extracted structure will include reoccurring geometric primitives, objects, people, and models of activity. We will also develop control mechanisms which exploit these structures to yield adaptive behaviour in highly demanding, real-world security and care scenarios.

The spatio-temporal dynamics presented by such scenarios (e.g. humans moving, furniture changing position, objects (re-)appearing) are largely treated as anomalous readings by state-of-the-art robots. Errors introduced by these readings accumulate over the lifetime of such systems, preventing many of them from running for more than a few hours. By autonomously modelling spatio-temporal dynamics, our robots will be able run for significantly longer than current systems. Our systems will take these opportunities, advancing long-term mapping, life-long learning about objects, person tracking, human activity recognition and self-motivated behaviour generation. We will integrate our advances into complete cognitive systems to be deployed and evaluated at two end-user sites. The tasks these systems will perform are impossible without long-term adaptation to spatio-temporal dynamics, yet they are tasks demanded by early adopters of cognitive robots.

The two studentships on the four year STRANDS Integrated Project funded by an
EU Framework 7 grant are available immediately.

Successful applicants will be paid a stipend which will be sufficient for them to pay their own fees at the appropriate rate, leaving sufficient left over for maintenance at the UK EPSRC rate.

Each of the two studentships is funded for 3 years and covers fees (at the international rate if necessary) and maintenance at the standard EPSRC rate (currently ?XYZ per annum).

Candidates should have or expect to obtain a first class or good 2.1 honours degree in mathematics, computer science or artificial intelligence. Preference will be given to candidates who can offer a Masters level qualification, a track record in publications, or relevant experience.

Informal enquiries: Prof Tony Cohn,a.g.cohn@leeds.ac.uk, 0113 343 5482

Applications should be made online, using the link at http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/c...es/index.shtml

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DOCTORAL (RESEARCH) RECRUITMENT on topics related to humanoid robotics and medical robotics


We offer 3 PhD positions (with scholarship) at the CINVESTAV (Centre of
Research and Advances Studies), campus Guadalajara to work on topics
related to humanoid robotics and medical robotics.

_http://www.gdl.cinvestav.mx/edb/_

CINVESTAV is an English-language working environment based in
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico with state-of-the-art laboratories and
worldwide collaboration in the fields of image processing, computer
vision, machine learning, neurocomputing, cognitive systems, robotics,
robot control and medical robotics.

We offer the following PhD themes:

Humanoid Robotics

Theme 1: Walking and control of a 150 cm and 40 DOF Humanoid

Theme 2: Quantum Control for decisions and control

Medical Robotics

Theme 3: 3D Vision and Haptic exploration and 3D organ (kidney)
reconstruction for chest chirurgic compliant cooperative robot arms.

Full details of the call and the application procedure contact:

Prof. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, e-mail: edb@gdl.cinvestav.mx
<mailto:edb@gdl.cinvestav.mx>

PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION

-

- Application and Interview and PhD Proposal Presentation: April to
August2013

Foreign students require to apply immediately so that they can apply for
his Mexican student VISA

- Start: 1 de September 2013

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Prof. Dr. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano

3D, SNI III,IAPR fellow

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CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara

Av. del Bosque 1145

Colonia el Baj?o, Zapopan

45019, Jalisco

M?xico.

Tel: +52 (33) 3777-3600 Ext. 1027

Fax: +52 (33) 3777-3609

http://www.gdl.cinvestav.mx/edb

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post-doc position available in robot 3D vision

In our project, there is a need to remove the Kinect camera casing. The side effect of such move is that the infra-red camera is off calibration, and the reconstructed 3D data is distorted. We wish to find a researcher who has the background in projective geometry and 3D camera calibration to restore the 3D data.

We look for fresh PhD graduates in the field of 3D vision or camera calibration. The contract will be for one year with payment of Singapore dollar SGD$4000 per month depending on your experience.

regards

Dr. Wang Han, Associate Professor
School of EEE, S2
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798
E-Mail: hw@ntu.edu.sg<mailto:hw@ntu.edu.sg>
Tel.: (65) 6790-4506
Fax: (65) 6792-0415
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/hw/

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Post-doc position in Evolutionary Robotics

The Evolutionary Robotics group in ISIR (UPMC, Paris, France) is
seeking a post-doc fellow who will contribute to the CREADAPT project
(http://tinyurl.com/creadapt), which aims at developing innovative
algorithms to allow robots to adapt autonomously to unforeseen
situations (mechanical failures, radical changes of the ground
surface, etc.).

Potential research topics are developmental encodings for locomotion
controllers, evolution in dynamic environments and, more generally,
improving the state of the art in evolutionary robotics.

This is a 18 months, full-time position starting in September/October 2013.

*Requirements*
- Ph.D. in evolutionary computation, robotics or a related field;
- interest for experiments with real robots;
- very good C++ programming skills.

*Information for candidates*
Please submit a resume, a cover letter and a 1-page research proposal to
mouret@isir.upmc.fr. Documents can be in French or in English. Interviews
will be held at GECCO?2013 (Amsterdam), in Paris or by video-conference.

* Workplace *
The ISIR (Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems) is one of the main
robotics departments in France. It is part of the University Pierre and
Marie Curie (UPMC), in the center of Paris, France.

*More information*
- http://tinyurl.com/creadapt
- http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~mouret

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Jean-Baptiste Mouret
http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~mouret

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Funded PhD Positions in the "Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Signal Processing", Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.


1. Autonomous Robotic Navigation

2. Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion

3. Short range radar based feature extraction

4. Simultaneous Localization and Map (SLAM) building.





The University of Chile has very strong research capabilities in the areas
of Robotics and Automation, Speech Processing, Astronomy, Mining and
Volcanology. A fundamental foundation of all of these engineering
applications is signal processing, and the purpose of the CMRSP is to
provide a signal processing common framework, providing solutions in all of
these areas.



Within the "Multi-Object Estimation" component of the CMRSP, statistical
signal processing solutions to autonomous robotic applications are sought.
Successful applicants will carry out research within a team of robotics
researchers and execute experiments with outdoor terrain type vehicles and
radar, laser and vision based sensors. Particular interest in Chile is
focused on robotic applications in mines, and the successful candidates will
also take part in experiments within such challenging environments.



Applicants should possess a good bachelors and preferably masters degrees in
Engineering, Physics or a related subject. Applications will be considered
with immediate effect.



More information on our robotics research work can be found at:



http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~martin/index.html



Please email a PhD application cover letter, your CV, copies of degree
certificates and transcripts to:



martin@ing.uchile.cl





Many thanks



Martin Adams.





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Dr. Martin Adams

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Universidad de Chile

Dept. Electrical Engineering

Av. Tupper 2007, 837-0451 Santiago, Chile



Phone: +56-2-2978-4209

Fax: +56-2-2672-0162

Email: <mailto:martin@ing.uchile.cl> martin@ing.uchile.cl

url: <http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~martin/>
http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~martin

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Open Robotics Positions

Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researcher

Technical University of Darmstadt



The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (IAS) at the Technical University
of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) is seeking for several highly qualified
postdoctoral researchers as well as talented Ph.D. students with strong
interests in one or more of the following research topics:

* Machine Learning for Robotics (especially Reinforcement Learning,
Imitation, and Model Learning)
* Tactile Exploration, Robot Grasping and Manipulation
* Interaction Learning, Intent Modeling and Inference
* Whole-body Contacts in Humanoid Robotics
* Robot Control, Learning for Control
* Robot Table Tennis

Outstanding students and researchers from the areas of robotics and
robotics-related areas including machine learning, control engineering
or computer vision are welcome to apply. The candidates are expected
to conduct independent research and at the same time contribute to
ongoing projects in the areas listed above. Successful candidates can
furthermore be given the opportunity to work with undergraduate, M.Sc.
and Ph.D. students.

*** PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS: PLEASE MEET JAN PETERS ***
*** AT ICRA IF YOU ATTEND ***

Due to IAS' strong ties to the Max Planck Institutes for Intelligent
Systems and Biological Cybernetics, the University of Southern
California, as well as to the Honda Research Institute, there will be
ample opportunities of collaboration with these institutes.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Ph.D. position applicants need to have a Master's degree in a
relevant field (e.g., Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering,
Statistics & Optimization, Math and Physics) and have exhibited
their ability to perform research in either robotics or machine
learning.

A successful Post-doc applicant should have a strong robotics and/or
machine learning background with a track record of top-tier research
publications, including relevant conferences (e.g., RSS, ICRA, IROS or
ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, NIPS, AISTATS) and journals (e.g., AURO, TRo,
IJRR or JMLR, MLJ, Neural Computation) . A Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (or another field clearly related
to robotics and/or machine learning) as well as strong organizational
and coordination skills are a must.

Expertise in working with real robot systems is a big plus for all
applicants.


HOW TO APPLY?

All complete applications submitted through our online application
system found at

http://www.ias.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/Application

will be considered. There is no fixed deadline: the positions will be
filled as soon as possible. Ph.D. applicants should provide at least a
research statement, a PDF with their CV, degrees, and grade-sheets,
and two references who are willing to write a recommendation letter.
PostDoc applicants require three references and, in addition, should
provide their top three publications. Please ensure to include a link
to your research web-site as well as your date of availability.

Applicants are encouraged to contact Jan Peters, Marc Deisenroth,
Heni Ben Amor and Gerhard Neumann during the upcoming ICRA,
R:SS or ICML conferences. Candidates giving a presentation at one of these
conferences are invited to send a corresponding note to us.


MORE INFORMATION? VISIT:

http://www.ias.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/...nForApplicants

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Post-Doc position at the Agile and Dexterous Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich


Whole body impedance control for legged mobile manipulation


**[PROJECT BRIEF]**

The goal of this research is to derive principled and robust approaches
to the control of walking, and manipulating robots in unstructured
environments. The possible research topics for this position are
relatively broad but will in general focus on the application of whole
body control and impedance control to combined manipulation and
locomotion problems.

**[BACKGROUND]**

The successful candidate will work in the frame of the NCCR Robotics:
http://www.nccr-robotics.ch/

At the ADR lab we seek to understand the control of dynamic motions of
robots, humans and animals in unstructured environments. This
understanding will let us provide the ?intelligence? for versatile,
agile and dexterous service robots.

Topics include:

- Control of legged locomotion and manipulation
- Whole body control
- Active impedance control
- Multi-contact control
- Full body force and impedance control
- Torque control with non-ideal actuators
- Applied machine learning and optimization to robotics

**[DATES]**

- Starting Date: On negotiation. The position is open for immediate filling.
- Evaluation of candidates starts on receipt of applications but will
continue until position is filled (see http://www.adrl.ethz.ch for updates).

**[REQUIREMENTS]**

- PhD in Robotics or closely related field
- Excellent academic track record in topics related to the project
- Very good English skills, written and spoken
- Above average Team & Communication skills
- Excellent programming skills
- Excellent analytical skills & Critical thinking
- Persistence!

Experience with:
- Compliance, Stiffness, Impedance control
- Torque controlled robots
- Rigid body dynamics
- Signals and Systems knowledge
- Control engineering background
- Experience with physics simulators
- Machine learning background
- Unix/Linux knowledge

Post-Docs are expected, in addition to their research, to participate
in teaching, supervision of bachelor's and master's projects,
supervision of PhD students, grant preparation and the general
activities of the Lab.

**[HOW TO APPLY]**

Please send your CV, a letter of motivation (incl. statement of research
interests/letter of motivation), 3 reference letters to Prof. Dr. Jonas
Buchli <buchlij (at) ethz (dot) ch> quoting [PostDoc Application S_13_2]
in the subject. Please send all documents in PDF or plain text format only.

Include a link to your PhD thesis and 3 of your most relevant papers.

For questions please contact Jonas Buchli <buchlij (at) ethz (dot) ch>.

**[WHAT WE OFFER]**

We offer a contract of 1 year with possible extension in an exciting
research opportunity at the forefront of one of the most dynamic
engineering fields.

A post-doc position at ETH is a regular job with social benefits, an
attractive salary and access to excellent facilities in one of the
world's leading technical universities. Zurich is regularly voted among
the top cities in the world for quality of life.

**[THE ADR LAB @ ETHZ]**

- Information about the Agile and Dexterous Robotics lab can be found at
http://www.adrl.ethz.ch/

- ADRL is located at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems:
http://www.iris.ethz.ch/ and the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering:
http://www.mavt.ethz.ch/

- Information about ETH can be found at http://www.ethz.ch/


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Prof. Dr. Jonas Buchli
Head Agile and Dexterous Robotics Lab
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
ETH Z?rich