Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab is looking for a researcher for a
newly launched project. Applicants for this position are expected to
conduct research involving development, implementation, integration,
and testing of metrics driven adaptive control algorithms for
autonomous aerial vehicles. Specifically, the successful applicant
would develop and apply real-time gain and phase estimation along with
real-time mu estimation algorithms. The work involves evaluating
existing adaptive control designs for their robustness with these
real-time stability margin estimation algorithms
Carnegie Mellon Innovations Laboratory (CMIL)
Announcement of Position Availability
Deadline: February 22, 2008
Position Opening: Full-time Research
Assistantship or Research Engineer (Post-Doc available)
Job Description : CMIL is located in the NASA
Ames Research Park (near Mountain View, CA) at Carnegie Mellon
University’s West Coast Campus. This lab has a
successful history of exciting research projects with the NASA Ames
Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in the areas of distributed avionics, unmanned air and ground, and
space vehicles and both research and educational robotics.
Applicants for this position are expected to
conduct research involving development, implementation, integration,
and testing of metrics driven adaptive control
algorithms for autonomous aerial vehicles. Specifically, the successful
applicant would develop and apply real-time gain
and phase estimation along with real-time mu estimation
algorithms. The work involves evaluating existing
adaptive control designs for their robustness with these real-time
stability margin estimation algorithms.
The successful candidate will interact with a
dynamic team including researchers from NASA Ames Research Center,
Carnegie Melon University West, and Aerotonomy,
Inc. with diverse backgrounds from algorithm development all the
way to hardware development and testing. The
applicant’s primary duties would be focused on software development and
testing but would also include hardware
specification, installation, and maintenance. The
applicant should be familiar with
control system design, aircraft flight dynamics,
signal processing, and the development of complex software systems in
teams.
Qualifications
• Masters degree or higher in a
aerospace/electrical/mechanical engineering with emphasis in control systems
• 1-2 years or equivalent experience in
engineering / robotics / aerospace applications
• Must have knowledge in modern control methods,
such as dynamic inversion, model reference adaptive control,
stability analysis, and robust control
• Must be familiar with Matlab & Simulink
• Must be able to work well both individually and
in a multidisciplinary team environment and manage timelines
and milestones reliably
• Must have good communication, organization and
writing skills, with ability to track schedule milestones and
generate weekly/monthly/annual reports
• Must be able to manage lab equipment, which
includes research rovers, test equipment and computing facilities
and maintain lab facilities
Responsibilities
• Dedicated commitment to the current research work in CMIL
• Lab maintenance (lab supply management, lab equipment management, etc.)
Salary Range : $50k - $60k / year (Full-time) + Benefits
Starting Date : on or after January 22nd , 2008 (Must commit to 2 years)
Interested applicants should send their resumes
no later than February 22, 2008 to Dr. Khalid Al-Ali at alali@cmu.edu.
The position may be filled before then if qualified applicants are found.
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