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AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE RESEARCH INTERN: RULEBOOKS (PF)

The Rulebooks team formalizes the desired behavioral specifications of our vehicles as many, potentially conflicting, rules with different priorities. In this role, you will support the team's effort on building a computationally efficient framework for generating rule-guided optimal trajectories in various driving scenarios. You will leverage recent advancements in motion control and path planning techniques to find control strategies that are dynamically and computationally feasible and are optimal with respect to the hierarchy of priorities of rules. (See https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07460 , https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11954.pdf , https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.01204 )

You will also study the effect of various sources of uncertainty (e.g. in perception, localization, object classification) in evaluation of rules and generation of optimal control strategies under uncertainty.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Develop robust algorithms to produce rule-based optimal trajectories more efficiently and integrate the algorithms with our in-house tools at Motional
• Structure performance metrics for evaluation of rules under uncertainty
• Design a framework for comparison of trajectories using hierarchy of prioritized rules under uncertainty

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Graduate student in control engineering, Robotics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, or related fields
• Strong experience with path planning and control techniques (RRT, CBF, etc.)
• Experience in Python, including standard scientific computing and optimization libraries
• Knowledge of statistics and probabilities

BONUS POINTS (NOT REQUIRED)

• Publication record in robotics and control
• Experience in formal logics (STL, LTL) and autonomous systems
• Experience in Git

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US

• This is a great opportunity to experience first hand what it takes to bring a commercial grade robot taxi service to life while working in a welcoming environment full of enthusiastic professionals.

Motional has been revolutionizing driverless technology for decades. Our DNA — a joint venture between automotive technology expert Aptiv and vehicle manufacturing leader Hyundai Motor Group — uniquely positions us to fundamentally change the way the world moves. Do you want to be part of shaping the future of mobility?