<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div align="center"><b><br>PhD Scholarship in Localization Systems for Mixed Human-Robots </b><b>Indoor </b><b>Environments</b><br></div><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The EU project, coordinated by IST-ID, MOnarCH ("Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals" - </span><a href="http://monarch-fp7.eu/"><span lang="EN-US">http://monarch-fp7.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-US">) has currently available 1 (one) position for a PhD Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering. We seek highly motivated researchers to integrate the project team, at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), a unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems Engineering in Science (LARSyS) located at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. Lisbon, Portugal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The successful candidate will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to, the design, development, and implementation of a high accuracy, robust and fault-tolerant, beyond state of the art, robot localization system to be used in the project demonstrations. The system builds upon the multi-sensor network environment at ISR, including fixed cameras, RFID systems, and robots with a variety of onboard sensors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The successful candidate is expected to have at least a MSc in Electrical Engineering or related field, with previous experience in the localization problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The grant has the duration of 12 months, renewable up to 3 years, starting on December 2013. The grant value is 980€ per month plus accident insurance and social security contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at LARSyS (</span><a href="http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(22, 73, 218);">http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">), and will also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of both projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> Applications will be considered in the period 25 October-15 November, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Applications should be sent to </span><a href="mailto:info@monarch-fp7.eu"><span lang="EN-US">info@monarch-fp7.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and should include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">* a detailed CV, including a list of publications, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">* a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience, and motivation to join the project, and </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">* the name and contact of 2 referees.</p></body></html>