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  • ST2025: Background Oriented Schlieren Tomography

    • The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to develop algorithms that can perform background oriented Schlieren (BOS) tomography. The project goal is to utilize both analytical and learning-based architectures to enable the reconstruction of 3D air flows in an indoor setting from BOS measurements. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students and have solid background and publication record in any of the following, or related areas: imaging inverse problems, large-scale optimization, learning-based modeling for imaging, Schlieren tomography, physics informed neural networks. Publication of the results produced during our internships is expected. The duration of the internships is anticipated to be 3-6 months. Start date is flexible.

    • Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Optimization
    • Host: Hassan Mansour
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  • CA2028: Mobile robots sensing, planning, and control

    • MERL is seeking a highly motivated intern to collaborate in the development and experimental validation of sensing, planning, and control methods in various robotic testbeds (quadrotors, turtlebots, and mini-cars) at MERL. The ideal candidate is enrolled in a Masters/PhD program in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science or related program, with prior experience in motion planning, control, optimization, computer vision, and their application in mobile robots, including experimental validation. The successful candidate is proficient in ROS, C/C++, and Python, and at least familiar with MATLAB. The expected duration of the internship is 6 months with a flexible start date in the late Fall/Winter 2023.

    • Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Robotics
    • Host: Abraham Vinod
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  • CA1940: Autonomous vehicle planning and contro in uncertain environments

    • MERL is seeking a highly motivated and qualified intern to collaborate with the Control for Autonomy team in research on planning and control for autonomous vehicles in uncertain surrounding environments. The research domain includes algorithms for path planning and control in environments that are uncertain and perceived by sensing and predicted according to models and data. The ideal candidate is expected to be working towards a PhD with strong emphasis in vehicle guidance and control, and to have interest and background in as many as possible of: vehicle dynamics modeling and control, sensor uncertainty modeling, data-driven prediction, predictive control for uncertain systems, motion planning. Good programming skills in MATLAB, Python are required, knowledge of C/C++, rapid prototyping systems, automatic code generation, vehicle simulation packages (CarSim, CarMaker) or ROS are a plus. The expected start of of the internship is in the late Spring/Early Summer 2022, for a duration of 3-6 months.

    • Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Optimization, Robotics
    • Host: Stefano Di Cairano
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