PhD in Safety Validation and Assurance of Autonomous Navigation Systems University of Southampton in United Kingdom

PhD project at the University of Southampton on risk-aware decision-making under uncertainty for autonomous navigation . The project focuses on autonomous ships , maritime traffic , collision avoidance , and decision-making under changing uncertainty. Research topics include predicted traffic situations, navigational risk, COLREGs compliance, operational constraints, probabilistic decision-making, multi-objective optimisation, risk-constrained planning, model predictive methods, and machine lear...

PhD project at the University of Southampton on dynamic risk intelligence for safe autonomous shipping . The research focuses on how maritime autonomous surface ships can recognise when changing traffic, weather, visibility, communication, sensor performance, or system capability make continued autonomous operation unsafe. The project will investigate operational envelopes (OEs) and operational design domains (ODDs) as capability boundaries for autonomous ships and their functions. It will devel...

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...

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...

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...