Projecte ofert
Títol: Design and Implementation of a Wi-Fi RTT Tracking Platform for Drones
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Director/a: ZOLA, ENRICA VALERIA
Departament: ENTEL
Títol: Design and Implementation of a Wi-Fi RTT Tracking Platform for Drones
Data inici oferta: 14-07-2025 Data finalització oferta: 14-03-2026
Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
DG ENG AERO/SIS TEL- DG ENG AERO/TELEMÀT
| Tipus: Individual | |
| Lloc de realització: EETAC | |
| Segon director/a (UPC): MARTIN ESCALONA, ISRAEL | |
| Paraules clau: | |
| Testbed, Wi-Fi RTT localization algorithm, IEEE 802.11mc, FTM, ESP32, drones | |
| Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats: | |
| Accurate WiFi positioning is being pushed by Google in the Android O.S. since 2018, when they officially announced the support for the IEEE 802.11mc standard (known as Wi-Fi RTT) in the core of the O.S. This technology was proposed mainly for feeding multilateration algorithms, which fix the user's position by overlapping circles (or hyperbolas) of positions where the users is likely to be - often known as "triangulation".
Wi-Fi RTT has been widely investigated on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Wi-Fi devices running Android O.S., showing promising accurate location estimates in indoor environments, especially those where Line-of-Sight (LOS) conditions are favoured. A recent study [1] shows Wi-Fi RTT to be useful outdoors as well-and more accurate than smartphone code-based GNSS when used near buildings with Wi-Fi access points (APs). This project aims at designing an open-source tracking platform based on Wi-Fi RTT for drones. It will be implemented on ESP32 and must be remotely manageable (e.g., by a laptop). The starting point for the tracking platform may be the current implementation of a Wi-Fi RTT location platform in ESP32 [2]. Once this application is tested, the second step involves the integration of a tracking module which enables the recurrent evaluation of the position of an object (e.g., the drone) while it is moving. For this, the integration of a filter (e.g., particle filter, Kalman, etc.) is necessary. Finally, a performance assessment will evaluate the impact of the drone's mobility over the Wi-Fi RTT algorithm. The ultimate goal is to build a testbed to evaluate the performance of the tracking platform in outdoor scenarios using a drone. Objectives: The goal of this project is to evaluate the impact of the drone's mobility over the Wi-Fi RTT algorithm. The primary outcome of the project is expected to be the development of a demonstrator, which will serve as a foundation for further studies on the performance and security evaluation of the aforementioned protocol. [1] Horn, B.K.P. Round-Trip Time Ranging to Wi-Fi Access Points Beats GNSS Localization. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 7805. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14177805 [2] https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/wifi/ftm |
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| Orientació a l'estudiant: | |
| Proficiency in Python and C programming.
Experience with the Arduino development platform. Understanding of Wi-Fi 802.11 protocols. |
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| Requereix activitats hardware: No | |
| Requereix activitats software: Sí Sistema operatiu: Disc (Gb): | |
| Horari d'atenció a estudiants per a l'assignació de projecte: Send me an email (enrica.zola@upc.edu) |
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