Research Assistant 2

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Hiring Unit:
Mechanical Engineering Department - Faculty of Engineering

Position Summary:
A Research Assistant 2 position to assist Professor Sharf in her collaborative project with an industrial partner. The research project will involve development and evaluation of  vision-based schemes to estimate grapple (end-effector) pose and joint angles of the crane of a log-loading machine

Qualifications:

• The candidate must have a Master's degree in Mechanical engineering with a thesis on a robotics topic.

• Some prior knowledge related to autonomous solutions for timber-harvesting machines is an asset.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct a literature review of state-of-the-art vision-based schemes for estimating the pose of objects and end-effector of a robot manipulator.

• Propose and formulate a strategy and an algorithm to estimate end-effector pose.

• Implement the algorithm in Python and integrate it into an existing simulator of log-loading crane.

• Test and evaluate performance of grapple pose estimation algorithm on the FPInnovations crane test-bed.

Hourly Salary:

$30.75

Hours per Week:

36 (Full time)

Location:

Macdonald Eng. Bldg.

Supervisor:

Professor

Position Start Date:

2024-10-28

Position End Date:

2025-05-15

Deadline to Apply:

2024-10-25

This position is covered by the Association of McGill University Research Employees (AMURE) collective agreement.

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