PhD in Robotics

This 3.5 year PhD project is fully funded and home students, and EU students with settled status, are eligible to apply./nThe successful candidate will receive an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£20,780 for 2025/26) and tuition fees will be paid./nThe project aims to develop a new control framework that enables embodied decision-making in autonomous swarms, investigating how individual and collective decision processes emerge from physical systems’ dynamical sensorimotor loops and combining control theory, nonlinear dynamical systems, robotics, and formal methods to develop models and algorithms for distributed decision-making in complex and uncertain environments./nThe candidate will develop a novel hierarchical control framework integrating cognitive decision-making with physical systems control, focusing on (i) low-level safe coordination control and (ii) high-level decision-making and task coordination./nThe candidate will be affiliated with CRADLE (Center for Robotic Autonomy in Demanding and Long-Lasting Environments - https://cradlerobotics.co.uk/) and will work closely with Work Package 2 (Architectures) and Work Package 5 (Demonstrators).