The Delft Centre for Systems and Control (DCSC) is currently composed of 15 academic staff members who supervise around 50 PhD students and 120 MSc students. The teaching and research field encompasses the wide area of modelling, estimation and identification, robust control and optimisation of continuous and hybrid dynamical systems. Applications include, but are not limited to, mechatronics and microsystems, robotics, sustainable industrial processes, transportation and traffic control, and physical imaging systems.
Job description
The positions are defined within the framework of the ERC Advanced grant of Prof. Michel Verhaegen entitled "Integrated Real-time Feedback Control and Post-processing for Image Restoration" (iCON). Within this project a new methodology will be developed for designing the high-resolution imaging equipment of the future in application fields like microscopy, astronomy, optical coherence tomography and nanoscopy.
The design methodology integrates and expands novel, model-based control methodologies with smart optical components, starting from the outset of the design of the high-resolution imaging system. The new researchers will have the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team of international experts.
This will allow both the realization of new, innovative, fundamental systems and control contributions as well as the opportunity to demonstrate their practical relevance via state-of-the-art demonstrators in astronomy and microscopy.
There are 4 objectives in this project. A brief outline with the starting dates for the PhD students is as follows:
- Objective 1 (PhD - Feb. 2014): System identification of spatial-temporally varying dynamical systems
- Objective 2 (PhD - Feb. 2014): Wavefront reconstruction and experiment design with active optics
- Objective 3 (PhD and Post-doc - Jan. 2015): Distributed robust feedback control and updating for adaptive, real-time image resolution enhancement
- Objective 4 (PhD and Post-doc - Jan. 2015): Integration of real-time feedback control and post-processing.
