Bilateral Vessel Teleoperation in Constrained Waters

LIS - Ensicaen; Caen; On-site; EUR 20,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

LIS - Ensicaen in Caen, France, invites a PhD candidate to work on bilateral teleoperation of surface vessels in constrained environments with degraded communications. The project focuses on designing a robust bilateral control loop, continuous-discrete observers, and advanced control laws to ensure stability under time-varying delays and packet losses.

Experimental validation on full-scale vessel is key. The candidate should hold an engineering degree or a research Master’s in automatic control

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or research Master with strong specialization in automatic control or robotics.
• Solid analytical skills in control law synthesis and Lyapunov stability analysis.
• Experience with MPC, discrete-time or time-delay systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design continuous-discrete observers for robust setpoint estimation.
• Synthesize advanced control laws for operator and vessel sides.
• Implement algorithms on hardware and validate experimentally on full-scale vessel.

Skills

Automatic control

Model Predictive Control

Continuous-discrete observers

Bilateral teleoperation

Time-delay systems

Education

Engineering degree in automatic control/ robotics

Research Master in control theory/ robotics

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

LIS - Ensicaen in Caen, France, invites a PhD candidate to work on bilateral teleoperation of surface vessels in constrained environments with degraded communications. The project focuses on designing a robust bilateral control loop, continuous-discrete observers, and advanced control laws to ensure stability under time-varying delays and packet losses.

Experimental validation on full-scale vessel is key. The candidate should hold an engineering degree or a research Master’s in automatic control