Dr J Brighton
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Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
About the Project
The emerging development of automated driving demands a mutual understanding and smooth coordination between human driver and vehicle controller, so as to avoid conflict and mismatch in demands, and achieve desirable driving performance, smooth and swift transitions which enhance driving safety during complex operating scenarios.
Cranfield University, as a leading university of one of the five projects in the TASCC (Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control) programme, proposed the CogShift (Driver-Cognition-Oriented Optimal Control Authority Shifting for Adaptive Automated Driving) project, with our esteemed partners, aiming at achieving a safe engagement and smooth and swift control-authority shift between the driver and the vehicle controller during adaptive automated driving. As part of the CogShift project, the PhD project has the ambitions to develop a decision-making framework to evaluate and assess driver capability to take-over control authority regarding to driver attention states.
The student will be based at Cranfield University Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre, which is a part of School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing. The student will be co-supervised by Jaguar Land Rover. The student will have the opportunity to use a new £9 million open research facility for carrying out experimental studies.
Entry requirements:
Applicants should have a first or upper-second class UK honours degree or a Master Degree (or equivalent) in Automotive/Applied Mathematics/Human Factors or any other relevant discipline of Engineering. The ideal candidate should have a good basis in in mathematics with good scientific programming skills (Matlab or Python), experience in control theory and systems, and human-in-the-loop experiment design. The candidate should be self-motivated, have good communication (oral and written in English) skills for regular interaction with other stakeholders.
Funding Notes
To be eligible for this funding, applicants must be a UK / EU national. We require that applicants are under no restrictions regarding how long they can stay in the UK i.e. have no visa restrictions or applicant has “settled status” and has been “ordinarily resident” in the UK for 3 years prior to start of studies and has not been residing in the UK wholly or mainly for the purpose of full-time education. (This does not apply to UK or EU nationals).
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