Ph.D Proposal, NeCS-Team-Project Energy-aware coding and control co-design for closed-loop systems in Wireless Sensor Networks Supervisor: Carlos Canudas de Wit, Email: carlos.canudas-de-wit@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr Cell-phone : +33 (0)6.85.70.73.16 Director of research at the CNRS, and responsible of the NeCS joint GIPSA-lab-INRIA Team-project NeCS team web page : http://necs.inrialpes.frPersonal Web page : http://www.lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/canudas Scholarship: 1900 Brut approx (EU-project), Opening period: Sept--Oct. 2009, Duration: 3 year. Context. NeCS is a joint CNRS (GIPSA-lab)-INRIA team. The team goal is to develop a new control framework for assessing problems raised by the consideration of new technological low-cost and wireless components, the increase of systems complexity and the distributed and dynamic location of sensors (sensor networks) and actuators. The team is a bi-located at INRIA (Montbonnot) and at the GIPSA-lab (at the Grenoble campus). This position will be funded by the EU FeedNetBack STREP project in the Networked embedded and control systems area. The project addressed innovative problems of control co-design issues in control/communication/computation and energy management in applications of control through WSN. Topic description. Wireless low-cost sensor networks is an expanded technology in many new and varied areas such as: traffic monitoring and control, undersea monitoring/exploration, ...