Guidance + Control Engineer

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Rate per day: £350-400

Start date: ASAP

Location: Oxfordshire

Contract length: 3 month (+)

Description

You will be developing a unique intelligent miniature surveillance technology. Due to the size and weight requirements, the hardware design needs to be very efficient, compact and more importantly light. The vehicle electronics need to address requirements in wireless data communication, video data capture/streaming and on-board algorithm processing.

Essential skills and experience:-

You will have at least 8 years industry experience together with extensive knowledge and experience in the following: -

* Control System Design: classical, modern, appreciation for some nonlinear techniques and implementation in the discrete time domain.

* Path Planning and following: -

* Dubin's Paths.

* PN Guidance, etc.

* Non-linear trajectory tracking.

* Trajectory optimisation.

* Strong mathematical ability including pure mathematics, linear algebra, statistics and numerical methods

* C/C++: Embedded, RTOS, Windows and Linux

You will ideally also have:-

* Experience of MATLAB/Simulink

* Experience with State Observers: Linear (Kalman Filter) and Nonlinear (EKF, Particle Filters etc)

If you are interested in this position, please get in touch with your most up to date CV demonstrating the skill sets as per the above.

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