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High power fibre lasers (HPFLs), developed first at the University of Southampton, have advanced beyond recognition. Output powers have increased by more than four orders of magnitude in the past two decades, reaching 10kW in a single beam. They are widely used in the most advanced production lines for cutting, welding, 3D printing and marking of a myriad of materials from glass to steel. However, we are now close to the maximum power that can be produced by a single fibre laser.
High power fibre lasers (HPFLs), developed first at the University of Southampton, have advanced beyond recognition. Output powers have increased by more than 4 orders of magnitude in the past two decades, reaching 10kW in a single beam. They are widely used in the most advanced production lines for cutting, welding, 3D printing and marking of a myriad of materials from glass to steel. However, we are now close to the maximum power that can be produced by a single fibre laser.
We are looking for a talented PhD student (fully funded) to work on the intersection of machine learning and swarm robotics. The goal of this PhD project is to propose a collective decision-making strategy and a learning model for robots that would lead to precise mapping of unknown environments.
High power fibre lasers (HPFLs), developed first at the University of Southampton, have advanced beyond recognition. Output powers have increased by more than 4 orders of magnitude in the past 2 decades, reaching 10kW in a single beam. They are widely used in the most advanced production lines for cutting, welding, 3D printing and marking of a myriad of materials from glass to steel. However, we are now close to the maximum power that can be produced by a single fibre laser.
High power fibre lasers (HPFLs), developed first at the University of Southampton, have advanced beyond recognition. Output powers have increased by more than 4 orders of magnitude in the past 2 decades, reaching 10kW in a single beam. They are widely used in the most advanced production lines for cutting, welding, 3D printing and marking of a myriad of materials from glass to steel. However, we are now close to the maximum power that can be produced by a single fibre laser.
Porous materials are widely used to perform a range of functions such as lightweight load bearing, impact protection, energy absorption and thermal or acoustic insulation. They are found in diverse applications including aerospace and transport structures, protective panelling, cargo packaging, and insulation.
If you enjoy numerical modelling and are you interested in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to engineering problems, this may be the right project for you.
Power generation from renewable energy sources is a prime concern for the technology development of the next decades. Tidal and river hydrokinetic power is a huge, but so far hardly tapped resource which has the additional advantage of being highly predictable. In this project, you will develop a third generation hydrokinetic power converter for application in tidal currents and rivers.
Autonomous systems such as self-driving cars, drones, autonomous boats, unmanned underwater vehicles, potentially help to reduce the costs and protect humans from hazardous situations. In situations where close collaboration between multiple assets is required across different operational domains, ensuring the safety and security of the complex multi-component systems is essential to allow different assets to successfully complete their individual tasks. Secure communications which can influence the safety of missions as well as other safety conditions must be considered as early as possible.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we live, work, and interact with our environment. In order to realise its predicted scale of trillions of devices, while also supporting global green energy targets, sustainable technologies are required throughout the stack. This includes everything from efficient energy storage and generation, semiconductor devices, and compute, through to green communications and networking, efficient data processing, and edge intelligence.