[agents] PhD Vacancy in Intelligent Vehicles Technology

[Koen Hindriks]

(Apologies for cross postings.)

 

The faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, is looking for an ambitious
and highly motivated PhD candidate with an interest in research on
*Intelligent Vehicles Technology*.

 

*Job description*

Vehicles that can drive themselves are becoming reality (see
http://viac.vislab.it/). Google Car is an example based on technology
developed for the DARPA Urban Challenge. In this project, intelligent
cognitive agents will be built that model the human driver and thus have the
knowledge needed to control a vehicle with or without human interaction.
Intelligent agents on board vehicles make it possible to increase drivers'
situation awareness, using data the agents collect, integrated with data
from other vehicles and from intelligent road infrastructure. Agents will
also support the driver in communications with other vehicles to improve
traffic throughput and safety. Some of the driving tasks can even be handled
by intelligent agents without any driver input. To this end, agents receive
traffic management instructions from the roadside and communicate with other
vehicles.

Your job is to design and engineer these agents and to test them in a
simulated environment. A simulation environment is already available, as is
the basic functionality for the agent to control the vehicle. Data on human
driving is also available to test the validity of the agent technology. You
will be part of a team supervised by Prof. C.M. Jonker, Prof. F.M. Brazier,
Dr. K.V. Hindriks, and Dr. J. Vrancken (TUD). The job is part of a larger
project on Smart Roads that aims to improve road traffic.

 

*Requirements*

Candidates should have an MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence or Computing
Science. Ideally, candidates have experience with cognitive modeling,
modeling of dynamical systems, simulation and (real-time) programming.
Candidates who have an MSc degree in another field may also apply but will
need to show they have the required experience in programming and a
background in traffic management systems or intelligent vehicles.

 

*Contact*

For more information about this position, please contact Prof. C. M. Jonker,
phone: +31 (0)15-2782523, e-mail: C.M.Jonker at tudelft.nl.

 

*Information and application*

For general application information you are welcome to contact Mrs. J.
Eddini, peno-ewi at tudelft.nl. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV,
including contact details of references, course lists with grades, and a
letter of application in which you explain both your interest and the
relevance of your skills and experience in the context of this research
project. Please e-mail your application materials by *18 April 2011* to Mrs.
J. Eddini, peno-ewi at tudelft.nl, or send by post to Mrs. J. Eddini, Mekelweg
4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.

 

Also see: http://mmi.tudelft.nl for more information.

 

When applying for this position, make sure to mention *vacancy number
EWI2011-03*.