PhD positions available

Mechanical engineering, materials science

• Impact and fragmentation behaviour of UAVs against soft targets for safety assessment, cotutelle between RMIT and ISAE-SUPAERO, MSCA AUFRANDE. Apply

Computer Science, Mathematics

Systems engineering, control

• In-flight visual-inertial estimation of wing shape for high-aspect-ratio aircraft
• Enhancement on structure/control interactions and experimental validation of closed-loop kinematic chains on Space structures in presence of parametric uncertainties
• Towards Robust identification and Unraveling of human-System Trust correlates
• Learning methods for vision-based autonomous landing of civil aircraft
• Codesign and Flight Control Laws of flexible aircraft with multiple actuators (distributed propulsion and fractional control surfaces) – Application to lateral flight control law, and load alleviation on high aspect ratio wing
• Reducing the negative impact of stress on decision making: combined effects of cerebral and vagal non invasive stimulation
• Enhancement of the control laws for electro-mechanical resonant de-icing systems using real-time Hardware In the Loop (HIL) simulations under scaling problematics
• Modelling and Control of Sloshing Phenomena for new Generation Space Missions

Fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, propulsion

• Numerical simulations of rotorcraft aeroacoustics

Electrical engineering

• Space radiation effects on optical detectors for space LiDARs used for wind speed measurement of the Earth’s atmosphere
• Research of innovative solutions for the implementation of pinned photodiodes in high resistive substrates for infrared detection

Earth and planetary sciences

• Sismologie planétaire comparée entre Mars et la Lune au moyen des données des missions InSight et Farside Seismic Suite