Lxl On Jul 11, 2013 4:53 PM, "jannik.laval" <jannik.la...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Smalltalkers, > We are searching for a PhD Student. Following you will find the proposal. > > Best regards, > > ====== > *Location*: Mines de Douai and ENSTA Brest (France) > > *Advisor and contacts*: > Noury Bouraqadi, Luc Fabresse, Jannik Laval (c...@mines-douai.fr, website: > http://car.mines-douai.fr/) > Loïc Lagadec (loic.laga...@ensta-bretagne.fr) > > *Profile*: the candidate must hold a recent Master of Science degree in > Computer Science or Software Engineering and must have solid skills in > dynamic reflective language and OOP. > > *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 > Enseignant-Chercheur > Tél. : 03 27 71 26 32 > > Mines Douai > 941 rue Charles Bourseul > BP 10838 > 59508 Douai Cedex > _______________________________________________________ > >
