PhD Opportunities in Control Systems in Belgium

This PhD project at the Delft Center for Systems and Control addresses safe and computationally efficient learning for time-varying optimal control problems. The research is motivated by the energy inefficiency of industrial systems, electricity production, and building heating systems, and by the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while maintaining operational safety. The project will investigate how learning-based control algorithms can simultaneously learn system models and guarantee saf...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) investigates efficient online optimization for time-varying systems, with a focus on safe and adaptive learning control. The research addresses a key challenge in learning-based control: how to learn a model while still guaranteeing safety, especially when the optimal decision changes over time. The project aims to develop computationally efficient methods for safe learning in time-varying optimal control problems. A central research ...

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory is recruiting a scientist/engineer for research in distributed systems state estimation within the Electronics for Sense and Control effort. The project sits at the intersection of navigation and localization , small-scale autonomous systems , and human physiological state monitoring , with the expectation that the researcher will contribute across this interconnected research space. The work emphasizes the development of novel methods for distributed state es...

The CREATE Lab at EPFL is hiring for multiple research positions in soft robotics, manipulation, and robot design, including PhD and postdoctoral opportunities. Applications are reviewed continuously, with a stated deadline of November 13, 2026. PhD projects include continuum body robots for modular, variable-stiffness robotic bodies; soft robotic simulation of human organs using soft lattice structures and integrated actuation; and morphing compliant and cellular-inspired robotic systems involv...

The University of Greenwich in London, United Kingdom, is inviting applications for two competitively funded PhD opportunities in Electrical Engineering. The first project focuses on AI-assisted wireless charging for electric mobility , developing next-generation wireless charging technologies for electric vehicles. The second explores AI-based digital twins for smart microgrids , with emphasis on renewable energy optimisation, resilience, and intelligent energy management. Home students are eli...

Philipp Rothemund (University Professor at the University of Stuttgart) is hiring PhD students for a new group at connAIx in Heilbronn, affiliated with the University of Stuttgart. The research focus is on soft robotics , materials science , and embodied AI / physical AI . The group studies how a robot’s body can contribute to intelligence by integrating actuation, sensing, control, and learning. Possible topics include functional soft materials, artificial muscles, integrated sensing, physical ...

Funded PhD position in Robot Learning at the Laboratory of Automation and Robotics (LAR) , ECE Department, University of Patras . The project focuses on reinforcement learning , optimal control , model predictive control (MPC) , evolutionary robotics , quality-diversity , and learning/optimization methods for adaptive robotic systems. The lab emphasizes research that transfers beyond simulation to real robots. Students will have access to a wide range of robotic platforms, including Unitree Go2 ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Groningen in the Systems, Control and Optimization Group , embedded in the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Faculty of Science and Engineering . The project is part of the ERC Starting Grant Energy-based learning of complex dynamical systems (E-BLOCS) , led by Henk van Waarde . This PhD focuses on systems and control theory , optimization , circuit theory , machine learning , and neuromorphic computing ...

Linköping University in Sweden is advertising a PhD student position in optimal motion planning for drone swarms within the new national Center for Heterogeneous Adaptive Swarm Systems (CHASS) . The project sits in the Division of Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) and is part of a broader research effort in AI, autonomous systems, robotics, swarm intelligence, autonomy, localization, mapping, navigation, and human-swarm interaction . The specific research focus ...