Post-doctoral fellowship in "Requirements specification and automatic design of robot swarms"

DEMIURGE is a research project funded by the European Commission via an ERC Consolidator Grant. The DEMIURGE project is hosted by IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence laboratory of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. IRIDIA is a leading laboratory that is world-renowned for its contributions to swarm intelligence, collective robotics, and automatic design/fine-tuning of algorithms.

The scope of the DEMIURGE project is the automatic design of robot swarms. Our goal is to advance the state of the art in swarm robotics by developing the DEMIURGE: an intelligent system that is able to design and realize robot swarms in a totally integrated and automatic way.

We are currently recruiting a post-doctoral fellow with a background in software engineering / computer science.

The research to be performed by the post-doctoral fellow will focus mostly on:
* modeling robot swarms and the missions they should perform;
* defining a specification language to describe missions and to express requirements on the performance of a swarm;
* developing a method to automatically convert the description of a mission into a form that can be used to actually design the desired swarm via an optimization process.

For further information, please see http://demiurge.be/openings/postdoc-software_engineering.html and/or contact us at [email protected]