Phd Position Stochastic Safe Envelope Prediction of

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Delft, Nederland TU Delft Voltijd

PhD Position Stochastic Safe Envelope Prediction of Damaged Drones-
**_In this ERC Consolidator Grant project a new paradigm called Artificial Physical Awareness will be developed that aims to improve the efficiency and safety of autonomous robots after system failures._**

Job description

This PhD project is conducted within the ERC Consolidator Grant project "ARCS" in which you will collaborate with an international team of researchers to develop a new paradigm in control theory: Artificial Physical Awareness (APA). APA aims to provide robots with accurate knowledge on their physical capabilities, which are reduced in currently unknown ways after faults and failures. APA requires accurate and up-to-date knowledge on the safe envelope, which is the region of the state space inside which safe operations can be guaranteed. In this PhD project, new theory and methods will be developed for computing, storing, adapting, and utilizing time-varying stochastic safe envelopes for autonomous robots under various failure conditions. In particular, experiments will be conducted with damaged drones in various flight labs, from which data stochastic safe sets will be computed and integrated with real-time adaptive flight envelope protection controllers.

**Requirements**:
Need-to-haves:

- Excellent knowledge of the following fields:

- Nonlinear (Optimal) control theory, Flight dynamics, Reachability analysis, System identification, Stochastic Systems Theory.
- programming skills in the following languages: C++, C, Python, Matlab
- Affinity with working with (flight) hardware

Nice-to-haves:

- Experience with working with hardware such as drones
- Experience with piloting drones

Conditions of employment

From 1 September next, a salary increase of 3.7% applies due to a Collective Agreement amendment, followed by an additional 1% increase on 1 January 2025. In addition, most employees employed on 1 September 2024 will receive a one-off payment of €300 gross based on full-time employment.

The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, discounts on health insurance, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

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TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

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Faculty Aerospace Engineering

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Additional information

Application procedure
- Motivation Letter
- CV
- Transcript of your MSc diploma

**Please note**:

- A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
- Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.
- FACULTY/DEPARTMENT***

**Faculty of Aerospace Engineering**:

- JOB TYPE***

**PhD**:

- SCIENTIFIC FIELD***

**Engineering**:

- HOURS PER WEEK***

**36-40**:

- SALARY***

**€ 2.770,00 - € 3.539,00**:

- DESIRED LEVEL OF EDUCATION***

**University graduate**:

- VACANCY NUMBER***

**TUD05712**:



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