Working Student (m/f/d) Contact-Rich Manipulation and RL

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      "value": "<p style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\">We are looking for a <strong>Working Student (m/f/d) Contact-Rich Manipulation and RL</strong>. In this role, you will prototype and benchmark classical and learning-based approaches to contact-rich manipulation tasks, including insertion, assembly, and surface following, across simulation and real robot hardware.</p>"
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      "value": "<ul><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Approach Survey:</strong> Survey recent literature on contact-rich manipulation and benchmark classical and learning-based approaches against each other on tasks such as insertion, assembly, and peg-in-hole.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Force/Torque Feedback:</strong> Explore force and torque feedback strategies for contact state estimation and reactive control.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Simulation Prototyping:</strong> Prototype and compare RL, MPC, and imitation learning pipelines in simulation, including learning from demonstration through behavior cloning and DAgger.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Transfer Investigation:</strong> Investigate sim-to-real transfer through domain randomization, system identification, and reality gap analysis.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Hardware Experiments:</strong> Run experiments on real robot hardware and systematically document which behaviors transfer from simulation and which do not.</li></ul>"
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      "value": "<ul><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Force/Torque Sensing:</strong> Familiarity with force and torque feedback for contact state estimation or reactive control.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>ROS2:</strong> Basic familiarity with ROS2 for hardware integration and experiment execution.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Real Hardware:</strong> Prior experience running experiments on robot hardware, including in a lab or course context.</li></ul>"
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