16.08.2017 – In 2017 the Communication Networks Institute continued it's participation in the DAAD RISE summer internship program once again, enabling two research internships for international students from the United States of America.

The first student, Jordan Backes from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri was chosen out of 13 candidates for the research project "Conception of a small scale self-organized crossroad based on Anki Overdrive". His research topic is related to the projects InVerSiV and B4 of SFB 876. He created an algorithm for an centralized intersection manager to schedule intersection access and avoid collisions. He started with a simulation in OMNeT++ and Veins and after a successful evaluation of the algorithms he applied them to the small-scale experimental setup.

From May to August 2017, Andrew Ramsey from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York completed a research internship at the Communication Networks Institute. His research topic was the experimental evaluation and fusion of monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with Ultra-Wideband (UWB) localization on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)s. Andrew achieved outstanding results in which he could show, that an augmentation of wireless localization with SLAM on low-cost UAV systems is not only feasible, but could also be used in industrial environments. The research conducted is related to the A4 and B4 projects of SFB876 and the CPS.HUB/NRW.

The attendees in 2017:
- Jordan Backes - University of Missouri, Columbia (US)
"Conception of a small scale self-organized crossroad based on Anki Overdrive"
- Andrew Ramsey (Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York)
"Using SLAM and Ultra-Wideband for Precise Indoor Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"

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