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Typst 0.14 9 months ago

How did you deal with the usually supplied templates that you get for TeX? Did you just try to imitate as best as possible?

(I wanted to look at this at some point for replacing latex for submissions to IEEE confs/corl etc)

  Location: looking to go back to Switzerland
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C++, Python, Everything in a typical robotics stack
  Résumé/CV: upon request
  Email: hi@vhartmann.com
Currently finishing my PhD in robotics on task and motion planning (with a heavy focus on (multi-agent) motion planning), expecting graduation towards the end of the year. I contributed to boost and OMPL, and I have experience in controls and estimation as well. Previously wrote real-time capable MPC-contollers, high-performance numerical integration methods, and developed novel path planning methods during my PhD.

Looking for robotics jobs (controls/navigation), or interesting general software engineering.

The path simplification technique in the post is called "shortcutting" in robotics. Here [1] is some approachable explanation, the original paper [2] is relatively digestible read as well, and has some other techniques in there (amongs thm, partial shortcutting, which I found extremely helpful in robotics path planning).

Regarding general multi agent path finding: There is a lot of literature around with respect to time optimal planning in MAPF both in robotics, and in adjacent fields.

[1] http://www.osrobotics.org/osr/planning/post_processing.html

[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

Zurich does definitely not top out at 100k. Depending on your negotiation skills, you'll start at about 120-140k in the big tech companies, around 120k in data science consulting, 120k for data science in banks, 80-100k at the smaller software companies.

I am currently doing a PhD in Europe. The duration of 3 or 4 years is only really true for hard sciences/engineering, and can be much longer in other fields.

The self-support part is not true for the UK at least - I got admitted to the program but did not get funding, so I could have taken a loan. In Germany, I am employed as a 'research assistant' during my PhD, and while underpaid compared to FAANG (or other tech firms), my salary is around the median wage.