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PhD Research Position: Intelligent Monitoring and Failure Analysis for Large Aperture Array Antennas
This opportunity is for a PhD student to conduct research on detecting and analysing failures in large aperture array antennas using machine learning techniques. The research will involve studying power spectra from receivers, simulating faults, and applying machine learning to identify failure types. The work will be conducted in collaboration with Stellenbosch University and ASTRON, using real and simulated data from radio telescopes.
Places
Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Western Cape
Reference
https://www.sarao.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/EDP-7-Intelligent-monitoring-and-failure-analysis-for-large-aperture-array-antennas.pdf
Opening Date
4 December 2019
The goal of this research is to apply machine learning (ML) approaches to array failure analysis in the context of the SKA antennas. The focus will be to use quantities such as power spectra associated with individual receivers to detect component failures, as well as the nature of the failures.
