Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Robotic Third Arm for Harvesting Assistance

Funding suppliers: Engineering and Bodily Sciences Analysis Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Coaching Partnerships (DTP) and Swansea College’s School of Science and Engineering

Topic areas: Clever Robotics

Challenge description: 

Swansea College, an internationally recognised tutorial establishment with robust commitments to analysis and technological innovation, seeks functions for a PhD scholarship funded place to affix our quickly creating Clever Robotics Group on the Pc Science Division, School of Science and Engineering. The growth of Clever Robotics for real-world functions, chopping throughout the domains of assisted dwelling and fashionable agriculture, is considered one of our analysis group’s objectives. Tentacle mission is a fascinating initiative that goals to develop a complicated robotic arm able to helping harvesting duties. By means of laptop imaginative and prescient, the Tentacle arm will be capable of acknowledge if a product (comparable to a fruit or a vegetable) is prepared for selecting and help the choosing activity. The Tentacle arm and the human-picker are presupposed to cooperate, with the arm helping the choosing course of whereas the human-picker carries the arm all through the plantation. By leveraging the distinctive capabilities of each robots and people, this collaborative strategy goals to optimize the harvesting course of, reduce losses ensuing from untimely harvesting, and expedite the general choosing course of. Be part of us and take part on this thrilling mission. At Swansea College you’ll do extra than simply analysis; at Swansea College you’ll positively be impacting folks’s lives and the setting.  Eligibility

Candidates should maintain an undergraduate diploma at 2.1 stage in Pc Science, Arithmetic or a carefully associated self-discipline, or an acceptable grasp’s diploma with a minimal total grade at ‘Benefit’ (or Non-UK equal as outlined by Swansea College). In case you are eligible to use for the scholarship (i.e. a scholar who’s eligible to pay the UK fee of tuition charges) however don’t maintain a UK diploma, you may examine our comparability entry. Please notice that you could be want to offer proof of your English Language proficiency.

Because of funding restrictions, this scholarship is open to candidates eligible to pay tuition charges on the UK fee solely, as outlined by UKCISA rules.