Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Robotics and Mechatronic Systems in the UK 2021-2023
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The University of Sussex in the UK is offering the PhD Studentship: Mechatronic system and control design for robot-assisted upper-limb neurorehabilitation (2021). This scholarship is under the supervision of Dr. Yanan Li in the Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Research group.
About the Project:
Robot-assisted neurorehabilitation has been developed in the past decades to provide physical training and address limited human and financial resources in health care systems. Most of the existing robotic systems for rehabilitation are bulky and thus not suitable for use at home. The idea of this project is to create a desktop robot for upper-limb rehabilitation, which is compact in size but provides sufficient functions and moving space thanks to its mobility. This project will tackle various research challenges in different steps to designing such a robot, including mechatronic system design, motion control system development, GUI design, and high-level human-robot interaction control design.
Benefits
- Fully paid tuition fees for 3.5 years up to the international rate.
- A tax-free bursary for living costs for 3.5 years. From October 2021/22 this is expected to be £15,609 per year.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants must hold, or expect to hold, at least a UK upper second class degree (or non-UK equivalent qualification) in Engineering, or a closely related area, or else a lower second class degree followed by a relevant Master's degree.
- An excellent applicant is expected to have: the ability to communicate and write proficiently in English; background in robotics and control; analytical/mathematical skills; and programming skills.
- This scholarship is open to UK and International students.
About University of Sussex:
The University of Sussex is a leading higher education and research institution near Brighton, in the south of England. It was the first of the new wave of the United Kingdom’s universities found in the 1960s and has today an international and local outlook with staff and students from more than 100 countries and frequent engagement in community activities and services.
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