These CIFRE: Multi-sensor Fusion on Embedded Devices

Job description

Environment This PhD is a collaboration between Inria’s ACENTAURI research team and NXP Semiconductors’ Vision Technology Engineering Center (VTEC). ACENTAURI focuses on intelligent, autonomous, and mobile robotics, with expertise spanning perception, decision ‑ making, and multi ‑ robot collaboration. The team develops hybrid AI approaches that combine model ‑ based and data ‑ driven methods, validated on real robotic platforms such as autonomous cars, AGVs, and drones. Their work targets smart territories, smart cities, and smart factories, emphasizing robust multi ‑ sensor cooperation and strong industrial transfer. NXP Semiconductors designs the processors that power next ‑ generation embedded intelligent systems , ensuring they are safe, secure, fast, and reliable. Future autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, and mobile devices will rely on NXP neural processing units (such as the eIQ Neutron NPU) to achieve high ‑ performance inference. The VTEC team in Sophia Antipolis develops the software ecosystem that enables efficient vision pipelines on NXP hardware. To push technological limits, NXP designs optimized AI architectures tailored to customer needs and NXP processors. This...