PhD Position in FoilDrone: Autonomous Maritime Surveillance and Aerial-Marine Robotics Delft University of Technology in Netherlands

Fully funded PhD position at Concordia University in collaboration with Harfang CLaws Consulting Inc. The project focuses on collaborative UAV systems for suspended-load transport , with research topics including dynamics , control laws , failure tolerance , fleet sizing , simulation , hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) , and experimental flight validation . This opportunity is aimed at an exceptionally strong candidate with a solid technical and academic background in flight dynamics and control , robo...

Postdoctoral opportunity in safe robot autonomy and mobile manipulation at the University of Manitoba in the Robot Autonomy Lab . The project focuses on reliable robot autonomy in complex, dynamic environments using wheeled quadruped robots and mobile manipulators. Research directions include safe navigation in crowded environments, uncertainty-aware planning and control , mobile manipulation , coordinated whole-body control for everyday tasks such as object retrieval, door opening, and elevator...

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 ...

Assistant Professor Shivam Bajaj at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is looking for highly motivated Ph.D. and M.S. students to join his research group. The research area is at the intersection of controls and multi-agent reinforcement learning , with related interests in control systems , reinforcement learning , and game theory . Preferred backgrounds include aerospace engineering , electrical and computer engineering , mechanical engineering , or related fields. Prior research experience ...

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...