No one guy accepted and left after a couple of weeks. We know that bad pattern.
Stef > 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/ >> >
