General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-25-0595
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Exploration of unsupervised approaches for modeling the environment from RADAR data
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Radar technologies have gained significant interest in recent years, particularly with the emergence of MIMO radars and 'Imaging Radars 4D'. This new generation of radar offers both opportunities and challenges for the development of perception algorithms. Traditional algorithms such as FFT, CFAR, and DOA are effective for detecting moving targets, but the generated point clouds are still too sparse for precise environment model. This is a critical issue for autonomous vehicles and robotics.
This thesis proposes to explore unsupervised Machine Learning techniques to improve environment model from radar data. The objective is to produce a richer model of the environment to enhance data density and scene description, while controlling computational costs for real-time computing. The thesis will address the question of which types of radar data are best suited as inputs for algorithms and for representing the environment. The candidate will need to explore non-supervised algorithmic solutions and seek computational optimizations to make these solutions compatible with real-time execution.
Ultimately, these solutions must be designed to be embedded as close as possible to the sensor, allowing them to be executed on constrained targets.
University / doctoral school
Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique, Traitement du Signal (EEATS)
Université Grenoble Alpes
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
RAKOTOVAO Tiana
tiana.rakotovao@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSCIN/DSCIN/LIIM
CEA Grenoble
Avenue des Martyrs
50C
04.38.78.27.12
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
DORE Jean-Baptiste
jean-baptiste.dore@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSYS//LS2PR
Minatec CEA-LETI
17, rue des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9
+33 4 38 78 37 80
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