CSIRO Australia

ICT Centre

Ad Hoc Protocols for cooperative Localisation

Location: Marsfield, NSW.

Supervisor: Mark Hedley and Alija Kajan

Project description:

Position location technology has been developed within CSIRO which consists of a flexible communication and processing hardware platform and algorithms for communication and localisation. The goal of this project is to extend the communication protocols to form an ad hoc network that supports cooperative localisation of the nodes within the network, and to verify the protocols first via simulation then by implementing them in the hardware platform.

The project aims to develop enhanced communication protocols that will support further research in cooperative localisation. At the end of the project the student should be able to demonstrate successful implementation of the enhanced protocols in small portable hardware nodes that have been developed for the Wireless Localisation and Protocols project. The student will be given some guidance on possible approaches to the extensions, but the student will be given the freedom to try his/her own ideas and hence have the opportunity to provide creative input to the project.

What is the vacation scholar going to learn through this project?

The student will have the opportunity to learn about:

  • Cooperative Localisation (an exciting research area).

  • Wireless communication protocols and standards for ad hoc networks (an area of current academic and industrial research).

  • The use of embedded systems.

  • Applied digital signal processing.
 

Skills:

  • Electronic Engineering Student

  • Some knowledge of wireless communications and signal processing

  • C++ programming

For further information re this project e-mail:
Mark Hedley or Alija Kajan

Undergraduate Information

Last updated 29/08/06 - Yvonne.Preston@csiro.au