[Job-offers-cs] Funded 3-year Post-Doc position (work contract) at IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, France: Combinatorial Optimization and Multi-Agent Systems applied to the agriculture robot fleet coordination

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Subject: 	[DMANET] Funded 3-year Post-Doc position (work contract) at 
IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, France: Combinatorial Optimization and 
Multi-Agent Systems applied to the agriculture robot fleet coordination
Date: 	Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:36:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: 	Marin Lujak <marin.lujak at imt-lille-douai.fr>
Reply-To: 	Marin Lujak <marin.lujak at imt-lille-douai.fr>
To: 	dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de



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AGRIFLEETS: Distributed Route Guidance System for Autonomous 
Coordination of Agriculture Robot Fleets


The Post-Doc researcher will work in a research team with a PhD student 
to be contracted within the AGRIFLEETS research project (funded by 
French National Research Agency - ANR) led by Prof. Marin Lujak (IMT 
Lille Douai) in close collaboration with Prof. Frederic Semet from the 
Ecole Centrale de Lille and various renowned national and European 
academic partners from Italy, Spain, and the UK. The Post-Doc research 
position is open at the Department of Digital Systems at IMT Lille 
Douai, University of Lille in France.

Context. The need for sustainable agriculture has led to the recent 
introduction of Agriculture Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Precision 
Agriculture (PA) that makes the practice of farming more accurate and 
efficient. The AMR research so far has focused on a single robot and its 
agriculture-specific capabilities. Very little work has been done in the 
domain of distributed, efficient, and scalable real-time agriculture 
vehicle fleet coordination in general and AMR fleet coordination in 
particular, considering the overall fleet performance as well as 
tactical and operational real-time vehicle, implement, raw material, and 
crop cultivating constraints. This topic is of utmost importance in the 
case of corporate agriculture where conglomerates with heterogeneous 
agriculture vehicle fleets operate large lands with precision farming. 
Fully autonomous farming, with multiple AMRs running and coordinating 
simultaneously with one another in the same farm, is still an open 
challenge. Advance!
s in ICT and agriculture technologies allow for a higher level of 
autonomy of AMR fleets where integrated decision-making potential at 
present is unrealised. With the objective to increase the opportunity 
for autonomy in agriculture fleets, in the AGRIFLEETS project, we study 
dynamic and decentralized coordination of agriculture fleets and develop 
a distributed route guidance system for autonomous coordination of AMR 
fleets. The expected outcome of the research will be the development of 
distributed and scalable algorithms for dynamic and decentralized 
agriculture fleet vehicle routing and coordination followed by the 
development of a multi-agent based decentralized vehicle fleet 
coordination architecture and the integration of the dynamic AMR 
allocation and routing modules into the architecture and the overall 
simulation testing.

The work contract should start as soon as possible, preferably in 
November 2020 and should last for three years with an internationally 
competitive salary.

Eligibility criteria
The candidate is expected to have a PhD Degree in Computer Science, 
Industrial Engineering, or a related field with a strong academic 
background in Combinatorial Optimization and programming (preferably in 
IBM ILOG Cplex Studio, MATLAB and Java). A good knowledge of written and 
spoken English are required.

How to apply
If you wish to apply for this Post-Doc researcher work contract, you are 
kindly asked to send the following in the same order: 1) motivation 
letter with research interests and goals, 2) CV, 3) three recommendation 
letters with respective contacts, 4) copies of your diplomas and 
transcripts, 5) certificates, and 6) three relevant publications in one 
PDF file at the following e-mail: [ marin dot lujak at imt-lille-douai 
dot fr ] preferably by October 26th 2020. The applications are 
considered on a rolling basis.


Best regards,

Marin Lujak
Associate Professor
IMT Lille Douai
http://marinlujak.eu


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