Softwareentwicklungspraktikum: Mobility Emulation for Wireless Networking

Vorlagen

• Präsentationsvorlagen

Organisatorisches

• SEP Webseite

Weitere Hilfen

• LaTeX Tutorial
• Git Dokumentation

A Kick-Off for this project takes place in the first official lecture slot of SEP SS26 (April x-th, y pm). Your presence in the Kick-Off is mandatory to participate in this project.

Motivation

Wireless networking experience varies significantly for mobile nodes, but conducting repeatable research in the real world is difficult and inconsistent. By placing a Raspberry Pi on a research-friendly iRobot Create 3, long-term movement can be automated to achieve results that are as authentic as a real mobile node but with laboratory precision.

Image source: https://docs.openedgeplatform.intel.com/dev/edge-ai-suites/robotics-ai-suite/robotics/dev_guide/tutorials_amr/developer_kit/irobot-create3-robot.html

Task

Your first task is the platform bring-up, getting to know the iRobot Create 3 and its ROS2 interface to enable custom path-following and autonomous recharging. Simultaneously, you will manage the network payload by using a Raspberry Pi to probe WiFi statistics, eventually syncing this data with the robot's location to create live heatmaps and network maps.

Implementation

Hardware Platform

• Carrier: iRobot Create 3
• Probe: Raspberry Pi

Technology

• Linux System Programming in C
• Plotting in Python (pandas, matplotlib)
• Data logging with InfluxDB + Grafana

Acceptance Test

• Logging of network stats with navigation
• Visualization of statistics using plots