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In this role, you will implement and evaluate reinforcement learning policies for a bipedal robot, support simulator setups, and conduct practical experiments with the hardware.
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Your role in the team
- Depending on your background and interests, we will agree on your responsibilities together. Possible tasks include:
- Support in building and maintaining simulation environments for a wheeled, bipedal robot in NVIDIA Isaac Lab.
- Contribute to the implementation, training, and evaluation of RL policies for hybrid locomotion tasks (e.g., mode switching, balancing on uneven terrain).
- Running training jobs on our GPU resources, logging, visualizing, and preparing the results.
- Support with sim-to-real experiments (e.g., domain randomization, actuator modeling), as well as testing and measurements with our BiBiRob robot.
- Literature review of the state of the art, as well as documentation of code and results.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Currently enrolled at a university or higher education institution in Germany or elsewhere in the EU.
- On-site at our location directly on the University of Stuttgart campus.
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Basic knowledge of reinforcement learning.
- Interest in hands-on work with robotic hardware.
- Analytical thinking, as well as an independent and structured approach to work.
Experience
- Above-average academic performance or relevant prior experience gained through personal projects.
- Experience with physics engines (e.g., MuJoCo) is an advantage.
- Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Lab is an advantage.
- Experience with ROS 2 is an advantage.
What we offer
- Hands-on work with our in-house-developed two-legged robot on wheels.
- High-performance GPU resources for training runs.
- Opportunity to gain experience in developing robotic systems for outdoor use and take on responsibility to bring your own ideas to life.
- Integration into our development team and collaboration with students and staff from computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
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The Fraunhofer Society is the largest organization for applied research in Europe. We align our research fields with people's needs: health, safety, communication, mobility, energy and the environment. We are creative and design technology. We design products, improve processes and open up new avenues.
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