Connectionists: Professor of Robotics

[Tony Pipe]

Job title: Professor of Robotics

Department: Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Campus/location: Frenchay, Bristol campus
Salary band: £60,173 - £86,889 per annum
Duration of post: Permanent

Closing date: 19 January 2018 @ 23:59

Job Overview:

The Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the Faculty of Environment & 
Technology have an exciting permanent and full time position for a 
Professor of Robotics to join BRL within the Engineering, Design & 
Mathematics Department.

The Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) research-and-innovation 
pipeline is now experiencing unprecedented growth, evidenced by 
substantial new research opportunities appearing across the UK, EU and 
global funding landscape.

In the context of Human-Robot Interaction, you will champion research in 
control systems underpinning:

 1. advanced augmented and virtual reality via immersive tele-operation;
 2. dynamic Levels of Autonomy (LoA) , typically varying from
    teleoperation to autonomous control, i.e., the ability to
    dynamically switch between different LoA so as to significantly
    outperform any single Level.

These research topics can lead naturally to shared control frameworks 
that enable both human and AI to collaborate in controlling one or more 
robots, thus simultaneously fusing reasoning from both the human and the 
autonomous agent. These methods are particularly relevant to 
safety-critical application domains where remote operation and varying 
autonomy could be highly beneficial.

This strategic focus resonates strongly as a fundamental and core issue 
in domains that stretch from assisted living, through robot-assisted 
surgery, to operations in an array of challenging and/or hazardous 
environments (e.g. nuclear decommissioning, subsea, space, offshore 
maintenance), and human-robot teamwork in manufacturing domains that 
incorporate critical elements of ‘Industrie 4.0’. In all of these areas, 
a human-in-the-loop may be required for some or even all of the time, 
but complex manipulations may be too difficult to directly teleoperate 
efficiently.

We are looking for a candidate that could take on the challenge of 
joining these common factors across the application domains, all of 
which are existing foci for BRL, i.e., a candidate who will work with 
and grow our existing teams as part of our BRL Unique Selling Point.

We welcome applications from researchers able to build on strongly 
linked disciplines and who are fully committed to developing one or more 
of the area of research outlined above.

UWE Bristol is an ambitious university. Together, our people are working 
hard to advance knowledge, inspire people and transform futures. We are 
looking for people with the skills and ambition to help us achieve those 
aims.

We are a well-established university, with over 27,000 students, 250,000 
alumni and 3,000 staff. Students come to study with us from all over the 
UK, as well as from 140 different countries around the world, making 
this a diverse and interesting place to come and study.

Bristol itself is a hub of social and cultural activity. A place with a 
strong, creative and fiercely independent mindset. A city with a buzzing 
music scene, great restaurants and interesting business ventures. It’s 
not surprising Bristol is consistently named as one of the best places 
to live and work in the UK.

In addition to progressive pay rates, UWE Bristol offers a wide range of 
staff benefits including:

  * a generous holiday allowance of 35 Days
  * up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year in addition;
  * flexible working;
  * excellent defined benefit pension schemes;
  * option to participate in the cycle to work scheme;
  * family friendly policies;
  * onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus;
  * option to purchase childcare vouchers.

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested 
in the latest facilities and resources to give our students access to 
everything they need to succeed – with £300m being spent on new 
state-of-the-art learning spaces and accommodation between now and 2020 
to enhance our offer even further. Frenchay campus is within close 
proximity to excellent motorway links and within walking distance of two 
train stations, making UWE Frenchay Campus the ideal place to work for 
those wishing to commute to Bristol.


If you have any queries or would like an informal discussion, please 
contact the Director of BRL, Prof. Chris Melhuish at 
Chris.Melhuish at uwe.ac.uk or on +44 117 328 6332.

Link to Bristol Robotics Laboratory with more details of the laboratory 
and full advert is: http://www.brl.ac.uk 
(http://www.brl.ac.uk/jobsatbrl.aspx for advert only).

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visit: 
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Tony Pipe
Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Deputy Director: Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Bristol Robotics Laboratory
T-Building
Frenchay Campus
Bristol UK BS16 1QY
Tel: +44 (0)117 3286330

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