<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><b>RoCKIn Coordination Action<br>Post-Doctoral Grant on Robot Competitions and Benchmarking</b><br><br>The EU FP7 ICT Coordination Action RoCKIn ("Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" - <a href="http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu">http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu</a>), coordinated by IST-ID, has currently available 1 (one) position for a Post-Doctoral Fellow on Robot Competitions and Benchmarking. 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 in Engineering and Science (LARSyS) located at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. Lisboa, Portugal.<br><br>The successful candidate will have the opportunity to participate in the exciting RoCKIn Coordination Action, that is promoting top Robotics research in Europe through robot competitions. He/She will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to:<br><br>* participating in the definitions/updates of benchmarking metrics and tools for robot tasks and functionalities, and of the competition rules for both RoCKIn Challenges (@Home and @Work);<br><br>* supporting the organisation of RoCKIn's competition events (Nov 2014 - http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/rockin2014.php - and Nov 2015);<br><br>* complementing the current design and realization of the ISR/LARSyS test bed for the RoCKIn@Home challenge and coordinating the realisation of experiments therein, with the participation of international visiting teams.<br><br>The successful candidate is expected to have a PhD in the areas of Electrical or/and Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science or related areas, preferably with a specialisation on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and preferably a strong interest on robot competitions.<br><br>The grant will have the duration of 12 months, starting on a date to be negotiated, extendable up to 18 months. <br><br>The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at ISR/LARSyS (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/).<br><br>Applications will be considered until the end of June 2014, and must be sent by e-mail to pal@isr.ist.utl.pt, including:<br><br>* a detailed CV, including a list of publications, <br><br>* a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience (namely on robot competitions, if any), as well as motivation to join the project, <br><br>* the name and contact of 2 referees.<br><div><br>-- <br>Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica,<br>Instituto Superior Tecnico - Torre Norte<br>Av. Rovisco Pais, 1<br>1049-001 Lisboa<br>Portugal<br><br>Tel.: +351-218418274<br><br>http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal<br><br>In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice<br>... but in practice, there is!<br><br><br></div><br></body></html>