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-=====Theses and Jobs===== 
-If you are looking for a bachelor/master thesis or a job as a student research assistant, you may find some interesting opportunities on this page. 
  
 +=====Open researcher positions=====
  
 +== Researcher in the area of Knowledge bases and knowledge acquisition ==
  
-== GPU-based Parallelization of Numerical Optimization Techniques (BA/MA/HiWi)==+Position code A132/17. Please see [[http://www.uni-bremen.de/de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stellen/detailansicht/joblist/Job/show/early-stage-researcher-position-3224.html|the official listing]]
  
-In the field of Machine Learning, numerical optimization techniques play a focal role. However, as models grow larger, traditional implementations on single-core CPUs suffer from sequential execution causing a severe slow-down. In this thesis, state-of-the-art GPU frameworks (e.g. CUDA) are to be investigated in order implement numerical optimizers that substantially profit from parallel execution. 
  
-Requirements: +== Researcher with background in VR programming ==
-  * Skills in numerical optimization algorithms +
-  * Good programming skills in Python and C/C+++
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+Position code A133/17. Please see [[http://www.uni-bremen.de/de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stellen/detailansicht/joblist/Job/show/early-stage-researcher-position-3225.html|the official listing]]
  
-== Online Learning of Markov Logic Networks for Natural-Language Understanding (MA)== 
  
-Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) combine the expressive power of first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models. In the past, they have been successfully applied to the problem of semantically interpreting and completing natural-language instructions from the web. State-of-the-art learning techniques mostly operate in batch mode, i.e. all training instances need to be known in the beginning of the learning process. In context of this thesis, online learning methods for MLNs are to be investigated, which allow incremental learning, when new examples come in one-by-one. 
  
-Requirements: 
-  * Experience in Machine Learning. 
-  * Experience with statistical relational learning (e.g. MLNs) is helpful. 
-  * Good programming skills in Python. 
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]] 
  
  
-==HiWi-Position: Knowledge Representation & Language Understanding for Intelligent Robots==+=====Theses and Student Jobs===== 
 +If you are looking for a bachelor/master thesis or a job as a student research assistant, you may find some interesting opportunities on this page.
  
-In the context of the European research project RoboHow.Cog [1,2] we +<html><!-- 
-are investigating methods for combining multimodal sources of knowledge (e.g. video, natural-language recipes or computer games), in order to enable mobile robots to autonomously acquire new high level skills like cooking meals or straightening up rooms.  +== Lisp / CRAM support assistant (HiWi) ==
  
-The Institute for Artificial Intelligence is hiring a student researcher for the +Technical support for the group for Lisp and the CRAM framework. \\ 
-development and the integration of probabilistic methods in AI, which enable intelligent robots to understand, interpret and execute natural-language instructions from recipes from the World Wide Web.+8+ hours per week for up to 1 year (paid).
  
-This HiWi-Position can serve as a starting point for future Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma Theses.+Requirements: 
 +  * Good programming skills in Common Lisp 
 +  * Basic ROS knowledge
  
-Tasks: +The student will be introduced to the CRAM framework at the beginning of the job, which is a robot programming framework written in Lisp. The student will then be responsible for assisting not familiar with the framework people, explaining them the parts they don't understand and pointing them to the relevant documentation sources.
-  * Implementation of an interface to the Robot Operating System (ROS). +
-  * Linkage of the knowledge base to the executive of the robot. +
-  * Support for the scientific staff in extending and integrating components onto the robot platform PR2.+
  
-Requirements: +Contact: [[team:gayane_kazhoyan|Gayane Kazhoyan]] 
-  * Studies in Computer Science (Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma) +--></html>
-  * Basic skills in Artificial Intelligence +
-  * Optional: basic skills in Probability Theory +
-  * Optional: basic skills in Machine Learning +
-  * Good programming skills in Python and Java+
  
-Hours: 10-20 h/week+== 3D Model / Material / Lightning Developer (Student Job / HiWi)== 
 + {{ :research:kitchen_unreal.jpg?200|}} 
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+Developing and improving 3D Models in Blender / Maya. Importing the models in Unreal Engine, where the Materials and Lightning should be improved to be close as possible to realism. 
  
-[1] www.robohow.eu\\ +Bonus: Working with state of the art 3D Scanners [[https://www.goscan3d.com/|Go!SCAN]] for creating new realistic models.
-[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIryyzlRwA+
  
 +Requirements:
 +  * Experience with Blender / Maya
 +  * Knowledge of Unreal Engine material / lightning editing
  
-== Kitchen Activity Games in a Realistic Robotic Simulator (BA/MA/HiWi)== 
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-Developing new activities and improving the current simulation framework done under the [[http://gazebosim.org/|Gazebo]] robotic simulator. Creating a custom GUI for the game, in order to launch new scenarios, save logs etc. 
  
-Requirements: +Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ +
-  * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge +
-  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials+
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]+== Unreal Engine Editor Developer (Student Job / HiWi)== 
 + {{ :research:unreal_editor.png?200|}} 
  
-== Integrating Eye Tracking in the Kitchen Activity Games (BA/MA)== +Creating new user interfaces (panel customization) for various internal plugins using the Unreal C++ framework [[https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Slate/|SLATE]].
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-Integrating the eye tracker in the [[http://gazebosim.org/|Gazebo]] based Kitchen Activity Games framework and logging the gaze of the user during the gameplay. From the information typical activities should be inferred. 
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ +  * Good C++ programming skills 
-  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials+  * Familiar with the [[https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Slate/|SLATE]] framework 
 +  * Familiar with Unreal Engine API
  
 Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
  
-== Hand Skeleton Tracking Using Two Leap Motion Devices (BA/MA)== +== Integrating PR2 in the Unreal Game Engine Framework (BA/MA/HiWi)== 
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-Improving the skeletal tracking offered by the [[https://developer.leapmotion.com/|Leap Motion SDK]], by using two devices (one tracking vertically the other horizontally) and switching between them to the one that has the best current view of the hand. +Integrating the [[https://www.willowgarage.com/pages/pr2/overview|PR2]] robot with [[http://www.ros.org/|ROS]] support in the [[https://www.unrealengine.com|Unreal Engine 4]] Framework.
- +
-The tracked hand can then be used as input for the Kitchen Activity Games framework.+
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
   * Good programming skills in C/C++   * Good programming skills in C/C++
 +  * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge
 +  * Basic ROS knowledge
 +  * UE4 basic tutorials
  
 Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
  
-== Fluid Simulation in Gazebo (BA/MA)== 
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-[[http://gazebosim.org/|Gazebo]] currently only supports rigid body physics engines (ODE, Bullet etc.), however in some cases fluids are preferred in order to simulate as realistically as possible the given environment.+== Realistic Grasping using Unreal Engine (BA/MA/HiWi) ==
  
-Currently there is an [[http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=fluids&cat=physics|experimental version]] of fluids  in Gazebo, using the [[http://onezero.ca/fluidix/|Fluidix]] library to run the fluids computation on the GPU.+{{  :teaching:gsoc:topic2_unreal.png?nolink&150|}}
  
-The computational method for the fluid simulation is SPH (Smoothed-particle Dynamics), however newer and better methods based on SPH are currently present +The objective of the project is to implement var- 
-and should be implemented (PCISPH/IISPH).+ious human-like grasping approaches in a game developed using [[https://www.unrealengine.com/|Unreal Engine]]. 
  
-The interaction between the fluid and the rigid objects is a naive one, the forces and torques are applied only from the particle collisions (not taking into account pressure and other forces).+The game consist of a household environment where a user has to execute various given tasks, such as cooking a dish, setting the table, cleaning the dishes etc. The interaction is done using various sensors to map the users hands onto the virtual hands in the game.
  
-Another topic would be the visualization of the fluid, currently is done by rendering every particle. For the rendering engine [[http://www.ogre3d.org/|OGRE]] is used.+In order to improve the ease of manipulating objects the user should 
 +be able to switch during runtime the type of grasp (pinch, power 
 +grasp, precision grip etc.) he/she would like to use. 
 +   
 +Requirements:  
 +  * Good programming skills in C++ 
 +  * Good knowledge of the Unreal Engine API.  
 +  * Experience with skeletal control / animations / 3D models in Unreal Engine.
  
-Here is a [[https://vimeo.com/104629835|video]] example of the current state of the fluid in Gazebo.  
- 
-Requirements: 
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ 
-  * Interest in Fluid simulation 
-  * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge 
-  * Gazebo simulator and Fluidix basic tutorials 
- 
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
  
 +Contact: [[team/andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
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