Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL) has received an EPSRC award to fund two doctoral (D.Phil) studentships for research into wireless networks of resource-limited unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as sensor platforms in search-and-rescue, security and surveillance applications. This research is led by Dr Niki Trigoni and Dr Stephen Cameron at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, in collaboration with Dr Stephen Hailes and Dr Simon Julier at University College London, and Professor Gerard Parr and Professor Sally McClean at the University of Ulster. The students will collaborate with a postdoctoral research assistant and another D.Phil student to engineer a fully autonomous aerial platform consisting of multiple helicopter UAVs capable of searching for a given target.
The studentships are fully funded by EPSRC for three and a half years at the Home/EU level and will included a stipend of £12,940p.a.
Candidates must satisfy the usual requirements: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/dphil-criteria.pdf for doing a doctorate at Oxford. Candidates must have (or be expecting to receive) a good degree in computer science or a closely-related subject. In addition good programming skills and knowledge of / experience in wireless networks or robotics are desirable.
The deadline for submission is 23rd May, 2008
Further Information and how to apply:
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/suaave-furtherinformation.pdf
