<div dir="ltr">----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Two-years Post-doc position (assegno di ricerca) <br>on Software Architectures for Self-adaptive autonomous robots<br>at the Laboratory of Software Engineering for Robotics, <br>University of Bergamo, Italy<br><br>This call is a preliminary stage aimed at collecting Expressions of interest. <br>The formal opening of the position is expected in December 2023<br>and will only be open for 30 days.<br><br>We will inform interested candidates about the formal opening<br>of the position and the related procedure.<br><br>For more information please contact Prof. Davide Brugali (<a href="mailto:brugali@unibg.it">brugali@unibg.it</a>)<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>At the Laboratory of Software Engineering for Robotics of the University of Bergamo <br>we want to explore new approaches for enabling Configurability and Adaptability of<br>autonomous mobile robots. These are key Systems Abilities of Service Robots, which<br>concern the reconfiguration of the robot software architecture during missions execution <br>without service disruption.<br><div><br></div><div>In particular, we want to address the following research challenges:</div>- How to formally model software and hardware variability of a robotic system.<br><div></div><div>- How to formally model the user-perceived quality of service (QoS) of robotic </div><div>tasks and behaviours (e.g. performance, robustness, accuracy, safety).</div><div></div><div>- How to exploit these software models to reconfigure a robotic system at runtime </div><div>when the operational conditions change (e.g. faulty devices, poor ambient lighting, </div><div>task uncertainty).</div><br>This research topic has been addressed in recent publications:<br><div>- D, Brugali, et al., "Software variability in service robotics". </div><div>Empirical Software Engineering 28(1): 24 (2023)</div><div>- D. Brugali, "Modeling variability in self-adapting robotic systems''. </div><div>Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 167: (2023)</div><br>The successful candidate is expected to have<br>- a background in robotics or software engineering,<br>- some experiences in software development for robotics,<br>- a recent PhD degree in Computer Science, Software engineering, or Robotics,<br>- a good publication record,<br>- proficiency in English and good communication skills, both written and verbal<br><br>The working language will be English, knowledge of Italian is not required.<br>The contract is for 2 years.<br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72">Davide Brugali, PhD<br><font size="2">IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer</font>
Associate Professor at University of Bergamo
V.le Marconi, 5 - 24044 Dalmine, Italy
Tel. ++39 035 2052-008</pre>
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