Encore ?? Personne ne veut venir, c’est ça ? :P
Ben On 20 Jan 2014, at 17:01, jannik laval <jannik.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > The position is available now. Interested candidates may apply as soon as > possible. > > Title: Ph.D. Student Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with > FPGAs for Robotic Applications > > Location: Mines de Douai and ENSTA Brest (France) > > Advisor and contacts: > Noury Bouraqadi (noury.bouraq...@mines-douai.fr) > Luc Fabresse (luc.fabre...@mines-douai.fr) > Loïc Lagadec (loic.laga...@ensta-bretagne.fr) > Jannik Laval (jannik.la...@mines-douai.fr) > > Profile: the candidate must must hold a recent Master of Science degree in > Computer Science or Software Engineering and must have solid skills in > dynamic reflective language (Smalltalk). > > Description of the work: > The goal of this PhD is to study Smalltalk integration with FPGAs for robotic > applications. This integration will enable us get the best from both worlds. > Developers are provided with a high-level dynamic reflective language > (Smalltalk) for building and debugging their applications. Still, we can have > high performances by projecting part of the programs into FPGAs. These > reconfigurable hardware chips can achieve performance faster than C programs, > while consuming much less energy. > > The work to do can decompose into the following tasks: > -Build reference robotic applications fully in Pharo Smalltalk using actual > robots (see http://car.mines-douai.fr/robots/) > -Analyze these applications to identify critical parts to project on FPGAs to > significantly increase performances (speed, energy) > -Do the actual projection to FPGA and evaluate performances of the > transformed applications > -Generalize the approach and define a methodology for turning Smalltalk code > into FPGA > -Propose a solution to automate the methodology > > The Ph.D student will receive a grant which net amount is approximately 1420 > euros per month for 3 years (36 months). > He will be co-supervised by Loïc Lagadec from the ENSTA-Bretagne (Lab-STICC, > Brest) and Jannik Laval, Luc Fabresse and Noury Bouraqadi from Ecole des > Mines de Douai (CAR, http://car.mines-douai.fr/). > The first 18th month will be spent in Douai (Lille area), while the last half > of the PhD will be spent in Brest. > However, during the full 3 years, there will be a strong interaction with > co-supervisers from both labs. > > Bibliography: > -A Robust Layered Control System For A Mobile Robot. R. Brooks. IEEE Journal > of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 2. Num 1. March, 1985. > -RCS: A Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent MultiAgent Systems. J.S. Albus > and A. J. Barbera. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent > Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2004). Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. > -Handbook of Robotics. Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib editors. Springer. > 2008. > -Multi-Level Simulation of Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Platforms. D. Picard > and L. Lagadec. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2012. > -High-level synthesis for FPGAs: From Prototyping to Deployment. Jason cong > and stephen neuendorffer and juanjo noguera and kees vissers and zhiru zhang. > IEEE Transactions on Computer-aided design of integrated circuits and > systems. Vol. 30. Num 4. April, 2011. > -The MOLEN Polymorphic Processor. S. Vassiliadis and S. Wong and G. > Gaydadjiev and K. Bertels and G. Kuzmanov and E. Moscu Panainte. IEEE > Transactions on Computers. 2004. > > -- > ~~Jannik Laval~~ > École des Mines de Douai > Enseignant-chercheur > http://www.jannik-laval.eu > http://car.mines-douai.fr/ >
