Institut de Robòtica
i Informàtica Industrial

We are glad to receive new researchers and students to join our team. There are different ways to join us, depending on your background and experience. Here you can find opportunities to apply for a post-doctoral position, develop your PhD or Master thesis, work as a technician, or even make your final year project with us

Job offers

Current job offers are listed below. These are, unless otherwise indicated, technical positions for technical work related to ongoing scientific projects

ID	Status	Description	Deadline
20	Closed	Mathematician for the Kinematics and Robot Design Group	28/02/2013
18	Closed	Computer Engineer for the Perception and Manipulation Laboratory	28/02/2013
16	Closed	PhD position (FPI-UPC): Robotics and Artificial Intelligence	30/06/2012
14	Closed	PhD position (FPI): Development of control systems for efficiency and durability improvement in PEM fuel cell based systems	17/02/2012

Student Project Proposals

If you are interested in any of the proposals below please contact directly with the supervisor.

Type	Supervisor	Title
PhD Thesis	Renato Alquézar Mancho	Dealing with the anchoring problem in cognitive robots
PhD Thesis	Babette Dellen	Efficient extraction and tracking of surfaces patches from depth-color movies for the semantic representation of manipulations
Master Thesis	Attila Peter Husar Jordi Llorca Stephan Strahl	Analysis of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Degradation
Master Thesis	Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez Mohammadreza Hajiahmadi	Decentralised model predictive control of freeway traffic networks
Master Thesis	Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez Mohammadreza Hajiahmadi	Decentralised model predictive control of urban traffic networks
Master Thesis	Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez	Design and implementation of predictive controllers for PEM fuel-cell-based systems
Master Thesis	Babette Dellen	Development of a surface model for the characterization of plants leaves for grasping and next-best-view planning
Master Thesis	Babette Dellen	Development of an algorithm for grouping of surface patches and application to plant images
Master Thesis	Cristian Kunusch Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez	Diseño e implementación de observadores no lineales en pilas de combustible PEM
Master Thesis	Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez Maria Serra Prat Jordi Riera Colomer Jordi Llorca	Estratègies de Control Avançat per a Reformadors d'Etanol de Producció d'Hidrogen
Master Thesis	Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez Maria Serra Prat Jordi Riera Colomer Jordi Llorca	Modelització i Control de Reformadors d'Etanol per a la Producció d'Hidrogen
Master Thesis	Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez Sebastián Tornil Sin	Modelling and control of a small-scale pasteurization plant using Model Predictive Control (MPC) based on Linear-parameter Varying (LPV) systems
PFC	Aleix Rull Sanahuja	Calibratge d'un robot paral·lel del tipus hexaglide
PFC	Juan Andrade Cetto	Construcción de mapas tridimensionales de entornos urbanos con un robot móvil
PFC	Juan Andrade Cetto	Construcción de modelos de objetos a partir de múltiples vistas con un sensor 3D.
PFC	Vicente Ruiz de Angulo García	Desarrollo de un detector de colisiones moleculares
PFC	Babette Dellen Carme Torras Genís	Efficient extraction and tracking of surfaces patches from depth-color movies for the semantic representation of manipulations
PFC	Maria Alberich Carramiñana Carme Torras Genís	Estudi geomètric i topològic de les singularitats dels manipuladors paral·lels planars
PFC	Vicente Ruiz de Angulo García	Exploiting symmetries in Continuous Constraint Problems
PFC	Adrià Colomé Figueras Carlos A. Ocampo Martínez Carme Torras Genís	Identificación paramétrica del modelo dinámico del WAM
PFC	Andreu Corominas Murtra Josep Maria Mirats Tur	Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Robots
PFC	Federico Thomas Arroyo	Sistema de estabilización basado en una plataforma paralela de Gough-Stewart
PFC	Montserrat Manubens Ferriol Lluís Ros Giralt	Sistema per a la planificació i execució de trajectòries no singulars en robots paral·lels

Grant opportunities

There are permanently several calls to which you can apply to join us as post-doc or pre-doc, trough contracts offered by several agencies.

Type	Name	Brief description	Link at Wikiri
POSTDOC position	Programa Ramón y Cajal	5 years. Financed by Spanish Government	→ More info at Wikiri
POSTDOC position	Programa Juan de la Cierva	3 years. Financed by Spanish Government	→ More info at Wikiri
POSTDOC position	Programa Beatriu de Pinós	2 years. Financed by Catalonian Government	→ More info at Wikiri
POSTDOC position	Marie Curie (IEF/IIF)	3 years. Financed by European Commission	→ More info at Wikiri
POSTDOC position	JAE-DOC	3 years. Financed by CSIC	→ More info at Wikiri
POSTDOC position	POSTDOC UPC	Financed by UPC	→ More info at Wikiri
POSTDOC mobility	EXT-ESP	Mobility of foreigners researchers and professors to Spanish public universities and research centers. Financed by Spanish Goverment.	→ More info at Wikiri
PhD position	FPI	Financed by Spanish Government	→ More info at Wikiri
PhD position	FPU	Financed by Spanish Government	→ More info at Wikiri
PhD position	JAE-PREDOC	Financed by CSIC	→ More info at Wikiri
PhD position	FI - DGR	Financed by Catalonian Government	→ More info at Wikiri
PhD position	FPI - UPC	Financed by UPC	→ More info at Wikiri
PhD position	MAEC - AECID	Grant for foreign students to do a PhD in Spain. Financed by Spanish Ministery of Foreign Affairs	→ More info at Wikiri
Position for Universitary graduated	PTA	3 years. Financed by Spanish Goverment	→ More info at Wikiri
Position for Universitary graduated	JAE-TEC	2 years. Financed by CSIC	→ More info at Wikiri
Position for Universitary students	JAE-INTRO	2 months for universitary students between 40 and 75% of their Degree. Financed by CSIC	→ More info at Wikiri