진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) offers a fellowship program, the CTU Global Postdoc Fellowship. This new and attractive two-year fellowship-program offers excellent researchers who have recently completed their PhD the chance to continue their research career at CTU. Fellows receive a two year fellowship and become members of a team led by a mentor.

The scholarship applicant must meet the following conditions on the date of application:

• • be no more than 7 years since obtaining the first Ph.D. degree,
• • Ph.D. studies at a university outside the Czech Republic or have completed at least a one-year working research stay abroad (outside the Czech Republic),
• • be an author (co-author) of three or more publications in a journal with IF or CORE A*/A conference paper.

In animals and humans, contacts with the environment are not avoided and sometimes even actively sought. We will deploy this inspiration from biology to design truly robust machines with distributed control systems, exploiting whole-body contacts with the environment. The main platforms will be robot manipulators or humanoids completely covered with sensitive electronic skin, learning their controllers in a biomimetic fashion (e.g., emulation of sense of pain, withdrawal reflex). The final scenario will be reaching and grasping objects exploiting whole-body contacts, with no or sparse visual inputs. We will demonstrate that reaching and grasping tasks can be accomplished even if conditions dramatically change, for instance when encoder values are manipulated with large offsets, a joint is completely blocked, or a camera observing the workspace is significantly distorted.

Skills/Qualifications

We seek highly motivated applicants with a PhD in robotics, AI, or related fields and a proven track record - publications in top conferences or journals - relevant to the topic.