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Ambient intelligence
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Personal robot in an intelligent environment |
Objective
The European (ITEA) project "Ambience: Context Aware Environments for
Ambient Services" aims at the development of methods for intelligent
(home, office) environments. Within this context we contribute to the
development of 'intelligent interactive platform': a platform which
perceives and acts within an intelligent environment. The system can be
used as 'personal assistant', where the aspect of `natural' man-machine
interaction with speech and 'facial expressions' and 'body language' is very
important for awareness and 'telepresence' tasks.
Research group members
dr. ir. B. Kröse
Funding
This project is funded by Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Open position
At the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam a full-time
position is available for a postdoctoral researcher (for 2 years). The
researcher will be working on a European (ITEA) project "Ambience:
Context Aware Environments for Ambient Services". In this project, a
consortium of European research partners works on intelligent (home,
office) environments. The University of Amsterdam contributes with
software methodologies for a personal robot, in particular for visual
navigation.
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Tasks:
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The development of novel techniques computer vision for robot
navigation and environment perception, the implementation and testing of
these methods on a mobile robot.
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Publication of results as articles in scientific journals, and as software
- Requirements:
PhD in technical computer science, preferably robotics or computer vision
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We offer:
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A challenging research environment. The IAS group consists three staff members, a postdoc and 7 Ph.D. students working in the field of robotics, vision and probabilistic models. We collaborate in this project with Philips Research and with
the Robotics group of the University of Leuven.
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An attractive income.
The appointment will be for a fixed period of 2 years, commencing January 2002 (
or as soon as possible thereafter). Salary is on scale 10 of the Netherlands salary
scales for academics, with spinal point depending on qualifications and relevant
experience, with a maximum of E 41919 per annum including standard holiday
bonus of 8%.
- How to apply:
Applications should be sent to Personnels Department, Informatics Institute,
University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
before 15th January 2002. Please send a resume and an accompanying
letter of explanation. Please mention the vacancy reference number #15156.
- Additional information:
For more information for this position, please contact Ben Kröse
(krose@science.uva.nl, +31-20-525 7461).
Research Achievements
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