Navigation, Estimation, and Controls Co-Op
About the role
We are seeking Undergraduate and Graduate Student Co-ops to support research, development, and engineering activities in the Navigation Research and Development Division (NRDD) of The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn Stare, located in Warminster, PA.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and development of navigation algorithms
- Work with a cooperative team of experienced engineers to support research projects being conducted at the NRDC
- These projects fall in the areas of state estimation for navigation, modeling and simulation of sea vessels, modeling and simulation of geophysical systems, and robotics and autonomous systems
- Build skills in simulation/analysis with MATLAB, programming in C#/C++/Python, working in Linux, filter design, simulating physical systems, and implementing control algorithms
Requirements
- Undergraduate and Graduate students with the following majors are preferred: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics
- This position is ideal for those with interests in modeling dynamic systems, optimal filtering and state estimation, and control systems
Qualifications
- Students must be available to work at the Warminster facility for a six month time period
Skills
- Modeling dynamic systems
- Optimal filtering and state estimation
- Control systems
Benefits
- Not specified
Pay
- Not specified
Schedule
- Not specified
For further information on ARL, visit our web site at www.arl.psu.edu.
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