Student Research Assistant (HiWi) in Robotics

You will have the opportunity to help with preparing and carrying out the Robotics Summer School (RSS). Furthermore, you will help in maintaining and improving the robotic platform employed during RSS. For this position, you should have the following skills: - Knowledge about ROS and/or ROS2 is a must. - Familiarity with using Linux. - Previous experience with mobile robots is a plus. - Good programming skills (Python, C++) are a plus. - Accurate and independent work style. Your working hours throughout the semester are flexible and negotiable and depend on the availability of work packages. There is a regulatory limit of 15 hours per week during the semester. To work as a Student Research Assistant (HiWi), you need to be enrolled as a student at ETH Zurich or another Swiss university. The preferred start date is as soon as possible, but no later than March 2025 (beginning of spring semester 2025). A commitment for the entire Robotics Summer School (22 to 27 June 2025) is required.

You will have the opportunity to help with preparing and carrying out the Robotics Summer School (RSS). Furthermore, you will help in maintaining and improving the robotic platform employed during RSS.

For this position, you should have the following skills:

- Knowledge about ROS and/or ROS2 is a must.
- Familiarity with using Linux.
- Previous experience with mobile robots is a plus.
- Good programming skills (Python, C++) are a plus.
- Accurate and independent work style.


Your working hours throughout the semester are flexible and negotiable and depend on the availability of work packages. There is a regulatory limit of 15 hours per week during the semester. To work as a Student Research Assistant (HiWi), you need to be enrolled as a student at ETH Zurich or another Swiss university.

The preferred start date is as soon as possible, but no later than March 2025 (beginning of spring semester 2025). A commitment for the entire Robotics Summer School (22 to 27 June 2025) is required.

The main focus of your work will be to prepare the robots used during the Robotics Summer School and to support the participants of the summer school in operating the robots as well as to help the participants during the tutorials. The robotic platform used during RSS is the SuperMegaBot, a four-wheeled robot with a custom payload that incorporates various sensors and the capabilities to process the sensory data. Additional work packages for the preparation of the summer school will be distributed among the student research assistants according to their skills and interests. Possible tasks are: - Rewriting of the low-level controller of the SuperMegaBot to run on ROS2. - Porting the existing software stack of the robotic platform to ROS2. - Testing of the software stack. - Adapting the existing development environment to ROS2 - Helping to adapt and improve existing tutorials of the previous edition of the RSS. - Creating and updating existing documentation. - Improving the ROS/Gazebo based simulation environment to include more details of the software pipeline running on the real robot.

The main focus of your work will be to prepare the robots used during the Robotics Summer School and to support the participants of the summer school in operating the robots as well as to help the participants during the tutorials. The robotic platform used during RSS is the SuperMegaBot, a four-wheeled robot with a custom payload that incorporates various sensors and the capabilities to process the sensory data.

Additional work packages for the preparation of the summer school will be distributed among the student research assistants according to their skills and interests. Possible tasks are:

- Rewriting of the low-level controller of the SuperMegaBot to run on ROS2.
- Porting the existing software stack of the robotic platform to ROS2.
- Testing of the software stack.
- Adapting the existing development environment to ROS2
- Helping to adapt and improve existing tutorials of the previous edition of the RSS.
- Creating and updating existing documentation.
- Improving the ROS/Gazebo based simulation environment to include more details of the software pipeline running on the real robot.

Applications for the student research assistant position for the summer school should be submitted electronically and include a resume, statement of interest, and list of relevant projects you've worked on. Please direct your application to Thomas Mantel (mantelt (at) ethz.ch).

Applications for the student research assistant position for the summer school should be submitted electronically and include a resume, statement of interest, and list of relevant projects you've worked on.

Please direct your application to Thomas Mantel (mantelt (at) ethz.ch).