From jpl@laas.fr Tue Jan 16 03:40:01 2001


		POSTDOC POSITION IN TOULOUSE (FRANCE)

		Motion Planning for Virtual Beings


LAAS-CNRS (http://www.laas.fr) in Toulouse (France) offers a postdoc
position to conduce a research and development action in motion
planning for virtual beings.

Research: The most advanced tools to provide realistic motions for
virtual beings come from motion capture. In that technology the
motions appears as a sequence of key-frames containing the successive
values of the degrees of freedom of the artefact considered as a
mechanical system. The question is to transform these data into
control laws allowing to adapt the motions according to a given
environment.

In a second step, the control laws should be integrated within a
geometric library (http://www.laas.fr/~nic/Move3D) dedicated to
obstacle avoidance.

Development: This research action is part of a French program
involving LAAS-CNRS, a start-up whose activity is dedicated to motion
planning, and a provider of graphics solutions (behavior-based
software and solutions to Game and Web3D Entertainment).

Skills: PhD in Graphics (or closed area)

Application: Send vitae to jpl@laas.fr (French researchers cannot apply)