HW/SW Acceleration of VLA Models for Robotics on Mesh-of-Tiles Architectures

ppOrganisation/Company ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA - - DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA DELL'ENERGIA ELETTRICA E DELL'INFORMAZIONE "GUGLIELMO MARCONI" Research Field Engineering » Electronic engineering Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Leading Researcher (R4) First Stage Researcher (R1) Established Researcher (R3) Application Deadline 2 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (UTC) Country Italy Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Not Applicable Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No /ph3Offer Description /h3pVision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unifying paradigm for robotic autonomy, mapping camera streams and language instructions directly into motor commands. On embodied platforms their transformer backbones must run within closed-loop latencies of tens of milliseconds and a few watts. Mesh-of-tiles accelerators such as MAGIA provide the compute density required, but exploiting them demands HW/SW co-design. /ppThis Incarico di Ricerca, aligned with the ARCHYTAS project, focuses on the HW/SW acceleration of VLA and autonomous-navigation models on mesh-of-tiles architectures, with MAGIA as reference platform. The incaricato di ricerca will focus on: 1) mapping of VLA workloads onto the mesh (operator partitioning, tiling, scheduling, quantization); 2) hardware extensions and dataflow support for the dominant operators; 3) software stack (compiler, runtime, kernel libraries, host-to-fabric dispatch) and end-to-end validation of a closed-loop navigation task on FPGA. /pulliItaly /li /ulpbEligibility of fellows: country/ies of residence: /b /pulliAll /li /ulpbEligibility of fellows: nationality/ies: /b /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr