Research assistant with a bachelor's degree bei RWTH Aachen

State Estimation for Autonomous Driving

Institution

Lehrstuhl und Institut für Regelungstechnik

Our Profile

The Institute of Automatic Control under the direction of Prof. Heike Vallery is part of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. The institute is specialized in control and automation engineering and acts as a bridge between theory and various application areas of automation and control engineering. In addition to offering fundamental education in control theory, the institute's research focuses on mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, process engineering, energy engineering, and medical engineering.

Your Profile

You have a bachelor's degree and are studying mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, automation engineering, or computer science and have the following knowledge and skills:

• Good knowledge of control theory
• Experiences in Matlab, Simulink, C++ or ROS are beneficial
• Very good oral and written English skills

Your Duties and Responsibilities

In urban area, conventional satellite-based navigation systems have the problem of limited satellite signals reception due to tall building obscuring the view of satellites. In addition, there are a lot of signal interferences which severely impair the reception quality. These signal disturbances are challenging for autonomous driving in cities.
In the Firefly project, a new navigation system is developed which fuses GNSS signals with LTE signals and measurements of an inertial measurement unit to achieve accurate and robust localization and state estimation in urban canyons. You will help to implement sensor parsers, develop software submodules and support us during measurement campaignes.

What We Offer

The position is to be filled by 12/1/2023 and offered for a fixed term for an initial period of 3 months.
A further employment for another 9 months is planned.
The fixed-term employment is possible as it constitutes one of the fixed-term options of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (German Act on Fixed-term Scientific Contracts).
This is a part-time contract position.
The standard weekly hours will be 10-14 hours.
The salary is based on the RWTH Guidelines for Student and Graduate Assistants.
The position corresponds to a pay grade of 14,00 € per hour.

About us

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