Partly-autonomous systems, be it robots or cars, will change how people work, how people life and how people move. The focus of this research position is on how people can control partly-autonomous systems, be is via traditional user interface, tangible interaction or virtual reality or augmented reality. The position is embedded in a currently running EU-funded project.
The research projectThe main objective of COROB is to develop a flexible, COoperative and intelligent multi-ROBotic solution for arc welding-based manufacturing processes (joining and additive manufacturing), to offer new operational capabilities that allow to increase the efficiency and improve the flexibility of industrial processes. COROB, conceived as a global solution, will employ a cooperative multi-robot system powered by Inspection, Monitoring, Control and AI techniques to optimise the welding process, and the adjacent manufacturing stages (pre-process and post-process) for time, cost, energy, and resource reduction.
The solution(s) will be validated in two semi-industrial use cases focused on arc-welding joining and wire-arc additive manufacturing for repairing, and will be ready to be extrapolated to other processes such as assembling, painting, finishing etc. In this
way, manufacturing processes will take advantages of the latest technological innovations in cooperative and intelligent robotic solutions, but with human in the loop approach, towards a more sustainable and competitive manufacturing industry.
The main focus in this project will be on a human-centered design and development of the user interaction in the two use cases, with the goal to empower non-technical users to be able to interact in such scenarios with partly-autonomous systems.
If you want to learn more about the COROB-project and this position, please contact Regina Bernhaupt (
r.bernhaupt@tue.nl).
We are looking for PhD students (4 years funded position) and postdoctoral candidates (2 years funded position) interested in this position.