Internship - Spatio-temporal monitoring using mobile robots

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Cambridge, MA, USA

Published: 6/14/2022

Engineering

Full Time

Job Description

MERL is seeking a highly motivated intern to collaborate and develop a framework for spatio-temporal monitoring using heterogeneous mobile robots. The work will involve multi-domain research, including multi-agent planning and control, optimization, adaptive and learning-based control, and computer vision. The methods will be implemented and evaluated using physical experiments on robotic platforms (e.g., Crazyflies,Turtlebots). The results of the internship are expected to be published in top-tier conferences and/or journals. The internship will take place during Fall/Winter 2025 (exact dates are flexible) with an expected duration of 4-6 months.

Please use your cover letter to explain how you meet the following requirements, preferably with links to papers, code repositories, etc., indicating your proficiency.

Required Specific Experience

Current enrollment in a PhD program in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related programs, with a focus on Robotics and/or Control Systems
Experience in some/all of these topics: multi-agent planning and control, optimization, adaptive and learning-based control, and computer vision
Experience with ROS2 and validation of algorithms on robotic platforms
Strong programming skills in Python and/or C/C++

Desired Specific Experience

Experience with Crazyflie quadrotors and the Crazyswarm2 library
Experience with cvxpy and/or gurobipy
Experience in convex optimization and model predictive control
Experience with computer vision

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