Month: July 2019

The Controls and Robotics laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering at Hanbat National University (located in Daejeon city, South Korea) invites applications for a post-doctoral research position. Our current research projects include novel robotic system actuated by SMA materials, hybrid wheel-leg robots, and tire-road friction estimation. The main responsibility of this postdoctoral research position is to develop road-tire friction estimation methods/algorithms for an autonomous vehicle system considering vehicle dynamics, actuator controller, tire model, and navigation sensor information. This vehicle model-based friction estimation will be ultimately combined with deep learning-based friction prediction. In addition, the postdoctoral researcher will have opportunities to collaborate with other researchers to design, model, and/or control robot systems in several ongoing research projects such as hybrid wheel-leg robots. The successful applicant should be familiar with Kalman Filter (KF) techniques, RLS, deep learning techniques, and/or other friction estimation techniques. The applicant should also understand control techniques, dynamics, and kinematics for a mechanical system. It will be beneficial to understand deep learning techniques since we will work together with a deep learning research team...