Research Assistant/ Ph.D. candidate

within the DFG cluster of excellence "Cognition for Technical Systems - CoTeSys", see www.cotesys.org. The goal is to develop methods and systems for cooperative perception of multiple collaborating robots and humans for manipulation and navigation. Main focus is on visual perception including recognition of environmental structure, geometry, position and motion estimation and prediction, active perception, and planning and control mechanisms coordinating perceptual and actuatory resources of the human-robot team.

For this project, we are employing ambitious young researchers with interest in the following areas: Multi-camera foveated vision and attention control, visual recognition, representation, and tracking of environmental and human structure, 3D SLAM, multi-camera vision and information fusion, information modeling, fusion of top-down/bottom-up signals.

This challenging project requires a team of excellent researchers with strong disciplinary background (e.g. control, electrical engineering, computer science) and interest to work in an interdisciplinary environment. A strong capacity for teamwork is indispensable as well as excellent programming skills.

The position is fully paid according to German rules (TV-L E13). Requirements are a successful degree (master/ diploma) with excellent records. Please send your application including your complete CV, relevant certificates, and some of your publications via Email to office@lsr.ei.tum.de with the Keyword "PERCEPTION" by 31st January 2012. TUM is especially encouraging minorities and women to apply because of its strong commitment to diversity in engineering education, research, and practice.

 

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Hirche

Lehrstuhl für Steuerungs- und Regelungstechnik

Technische Universität München

80290 München