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IRI CSIC-UPC _ Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
Areas of research: Robotics, Control, Automation, Computer Vision. Location: Barcelona Website: www.iri.upc.edu; Contact: jobs@iri.upc.edu
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The Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), is a Joint University Research Institute participated by the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) that conducts basic and applied research in human-centred robotics and automatic control. The institute, founded in 1995, is a key player in the Spanish robotics and automatic control scenes, and a valued participant in a large number of international collaborations.
The Institute’s research activities are organized in four research lines: (1) Kinematics and Robot Design, (2) Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems, (3) Perception and Manipulation, (4) Automatic Control.
The three first lines tackle various aspects of robotics research, including indoor and outdoor human-centred human-safe robotics systems, and the design and construction of novel parallel mechanisms. The fourth line is focused on control systems design and implementation, aimed principally at the improvement of energy systems efficiency, fuel cells performance and environmental resources management.
In the period 2012-2016, IRI researchers have coordinated 2 European Projects, and have participated as partners in 15 more from the FP7 and H2020 programmes. Moreover, they have coordinated 16 National Projects and many other regional initiatives. In addition, during this period, 19 technology transfer projects were carried. In the period 2012-2015, our researchers published, amongst other highly ranked papers, at least 90 journals in the first ISI JCR quartile (38 in the first ISI JCR decile); most of them in the robotics, automatic control, computer science and artificial intelligence disciplines.
IRI has been selected in 2017 as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence. In addition, recently our researcher Dr. Carme Torras has obtained an ERC Advanced Grant. The topics for the job offers related with these two initiatives are:
• Emphatic natural human robot interaction and collaboration (human action recognition, socially aware path planning, navigation and path execution, compliant and safe interaction between humans and robots, etc), • Robust localization and mapping (sensory data fusion for localization, SLAM and
Deep Learning, Robustness/reliability/scalability/loop closure detection, etc), • Dexterous textile manipulation (Perception of deformable objects, High level encoding of object primitives using computational topology, Design and construction of dexterous end effectors and grippers for robot design, etc), • Robot learning using natural communication (Joint annotation of visual and textual data, Inference techniques -dynamic neural networks- to predict semantic tuples and actions from object detection, Learning from demonstration manipulation skills, etc), • Energy supply and management (design of autonomous energy systems based on PEM fuel cells, dynamic modelling and development of diagnosis tools, design and implementation of controllers for optimal efficiency and low degradation, etc), • Advanced supervision and control (Modelling complex dynamic systems, Real-time supervision in complex dynamic systems, Model-based and data driven control in complex dynamic systems, etc), • Ethical, regulatory and philosophical aspects of social robotics (Risk/contingency management, Liability /regulations, Privacy issues, etc).
JOB OPPORTUNITIES 2017-2018
OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOCTORAL TRAINEES (R1)
We expect to have 12 available positions for PhD students to start in early 2018 through the María de Maeztu Programme and the CLOTHILDE ERC Advanced Grant.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS (R2 and R3)
We expect to have 8 available positions for postdoc to start in early 2018 through the María de Maeztu Programme and the CLOTHILDE ERC Advanced Grant.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LAB TECHNICIANS
We expect to have two 4-year positions for lab support engineers through the María de Maeztu Programme.
All job opportunities will be announced in our webpage www.iri.upc.edu
