Bachelor Projekt Systementwicklung

Topic

Teleoperation (the control of robots from a distance) is discussed in the context of automated driving to assist autonomous vehicles (such as delivery trucks or driverless taxis) that got stuck, or to handle a difficult situation.

In this joint project between Centria University in Kokkola (Finnland) and University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (Germany), we explore teleoperated driving of small model cars.

Both in Kokkola and Darmstadt we have some experience with automated driving or manual control of small model cars and we want to combine our efforts -- driving small cars in Kokkola from Darmstadt, or, driving small cars in Darmstadt from Kokkola!

We assume a video stream to be transmitted in one direction and steering commands in the other. An interesting question will be, how latency will affect the driving, as network delays are inevitable between Finnland and Gemany.

Organization

The project starts with a kickoff week (17.-21.03.25) in Kokkola, students from Darmstadt will be there on excursion and meet their team members from Finnland. We will form mixed student teams that start to collaborate face-to-face. Then, students will travel home and continue to work together remotely. We meet again for a final week (28.04.-02.05.25) in Darmstadt, this time students from Kokkola visiting Darmstadt. It will be again working face-to-face to finish up the project and conclude with a final presentation.

There will be time for joint social activities in both face-to-face-weeks. The excursion to the partner site will be organized by teaching staff, students need to be prepared to contribute to the travel expenses with a very moderate fee (e.g. 200 €).

Required Skills

We will form teams with complementary skills if possible. You should have some experience in at least one, preferably several of the following fields:

• Networking with TCP- and UDP-sockets
• Video streams, compression of video
• Application development under Windows or Linux
• UI Design
• Embedded systems
• Autonomous systems / Robotics

You should be able to work self-motivated in an international team.

Students have to be available full time during the face-to-face weeks in Kokkola and Darmstadt, and need to be available part-time during the remote operation weeks between the two face-to-face weeks, in order to meet the requiremente for a 7.5 CP "project system development" in Darmstadt or an 8 CP "capstone project" in Kokkola, respectively.

Contact

Darmstadt students contact Stefan Rapp, Kokkola students contact Anne Keskitalo until 07.02.2025