PhD in Dynamic Risk Intelligence for Safe Autonomous Shipping University of Southampton in United Kingdom

PhD project at the University of Southampton on safety validation and assurance of autonomous navigation systems , with a focus on maritime autonomy and autonomous ships. The research will develop Operational Design Domain (ODD) -based methods to assess whether autonomous navigation systems can operate safely within intended conditions. It will use historical maritime data, scenario-space modelling, and simulation to generate representative, critical, rare, boundary, and degraded scenarios. The ...

Peng Edward Wang at Case Western Reserve University is looking for a new PhD student to join an NSF-funded project on Anticipatory Robotics: World Model and Generative Planning for Safe, Human-Aligned Autonomy . The research focuses on robotic welding , including developing a welding-specific foundation model to predict welding state evolution under candidate task conditions and torch manipulation, and to optimize and plan safe robotic actions for consistent welding quality. The project also aim...

PhD opportunity at Aston University in the Autonomous Robotics and Perception Laboratory on AI-driven robotic disassembly using mixed reality and haptics . The project focuses on robotics , artificial intelligence , mixed reality , haptic teleoperation , and autonomous robotic manipulation for industrial applications. This is a research-intensive doctoral position suited to candidates interested in real-world robotic systems, perception, and human-in-the-loop control. Funding: Tuition fees are c...

We’re hiring a Doctoral Candidate (DC1) at Loughborough University as part of the MSCA DIAMOND Doctoral Network (Decentralized critical Infrastructure Asset Monitoring and coNDition assessment). The project is hosted in the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering and focuses on designing novel dual-mode MEMS sensors for next-generation self-powered sensing in propulsion systems . The research targets hard-to-access locations such as powertrains and aims to close th...

University of Southampton is advertising a PhD project titled “Multimodal learning and sensor fusion for vessel monitoring using vision and underwater acoustics.” The project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and focuses on combining machine learning , multimodal fusion , underwater acoustics , computer vision , and signal processing to improve vessel detection, characterisation, localisation, and tracking in rivers and coastal waters. The research asks how shore-based cam...