Drone Path Planner Intern: Hybrid 3D Reconstructions

TNO; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 5,800 - 7,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly internship allowance: €615

Up to 8 hours leave per internship per

Travel expense contribution

Jong TNO membership

Laptop provided

Professional supervision

Job summary

TNO in The Hague invites MSc students to join a hands-on internship focused on teaching a drone to plan flights for high-quality 3D reconstructions. You’ll work with 3D vision, vision-language grounding, and active perception concepts in a practical setting.

You will code, run flight experiments, and iteratively refine signals to predict reconstruction quality, with supervision and opportunities to publish results if the work progresses well.

Qualifications

• Master's level education required in AI, CS, robotics or related field.
• Strong Python skills essential and experience with 3D vision is a plus.
• Comfortable with open research problems, publication potential, and independent work.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a coverage-planning strategy for drone-based 3D scanning.
• Experiment with flight in simulation and real drone setups.
• Analyze signals (coverage, viewpoints, detection confidence) to improve reconstruction quality.

Skills

Python

3D vision

Vision-language models

Robotics/simulation tools

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Python

Robotics/simulation tools

3D vision

Job description

TNO in The Hague invites MSc students to join a hands-on internship focused on teaching a drone to plan flights for high-quality 3D reconstructions. You’ll work with 3D vision, vision-language grounding, and active perception concepts in a practical setting.

You will code, run flight experiments, and iteratively refine signals to predict reconstruction quality, with supervision and opportunities to publish results if the work progresses well.