Master student project group RAC3R (Rapid Assistance through Connected Remotely operated Rescue Robotics) successfully completed

The corona crisis did not prevent the successful conclusion of the project group RAC3R (Rapid Assistance through Connected Remotely operated Rescue Robotics) that presented its final results to the members of the CNI in the last 2020 quarter. The project group is part of the master course Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and consists of a group of students collaboratively taking on a scientific task. Within RAC3R, a group of 6 students was originally tasked with the development and optimization of a rescue robotic platform with a Multi-Radio Access Technology feature. The sanitary measures adopted to contain the Corona pandemic posed an additional challenge: full remote work. It was successfully taken on by the students, as they successfully pivoted and setup a virtual robotic simulation environment with real network interface support. A virtual model of the RAC3R robot and a portable implementation of the software stack to the real world were also delivered. Furthermore, the setup was enriched with network controls allowing to either tailor the network quality to match the simulated environment using raytracing or to freely investigate other specific communication scenarios and edge cases.