What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physical Interaction and Telemanipulation position at Honda Research Institute USA?
Job Number: P24INT-23
This internship focuses on researching, developing, implementing, and validating advanced control methods to ensure safe and intuitive physical interactions between robots and their environment in a bilateral teleoperation setup.
San Jose, CA
Key Responsibilities
- Research, conceptualize, implement and validate novel model-based robot behaviors with safety guarantees for robotic arms and hands physically interacting with their environments.
- Develop reliable software to enhance the capabilities of the bilateral teleoperation system.
- Conduct teleoperated physical interaction experiments, and collect and analyze data.
- Publish research results at top-tier robotics conferences or journals.
Minimum Qualifications
- Ph.D. or highly qualified M.S. candidate in robotics, mechanical engineering, computer science, or a related field
- Strong understanding of 3D robot kinematics and dynamics.
- Hands-on experience with real-time control algorithm implementation on robotic systems.
- Excellent programming skills in C and strong familiarity with ROS.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience in interaction force control.
- Experience in bimanual manipulation or whole-body control.
- Experience in real-time constraint handling and numerical optimization.
- Experience in motion planning.
Years of Work Experience Required
0
Desired Start Date
5/19/2025
Internship Duration
3 Months
Position Keywords
Teleoperation, Control, Physical Interaction
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