General description of WEpods project
Robot Engineered Systems (RES) is developing self-driving shuttle buses called WEpods. In the last few years, we developed software for two WEpods. They are driving at Wageningen University campus, in mixed traffic on public roads. Those WEpods are small, 6 person shuttles that drive at limited speed (max 25km/h). The fact that we have a permission to test and operate on public roads makes us quite unique in The Netherlands, the EU, and even worldwide. Currently, we are in the process of building our new, next generation autonomous shuttle bus, as part of the EU subsidized Interreg Automated Transport project. It will be equipped with several cameras, radars, and lidars to provide a clear perception of the world around us. The bus will have space for 16 persons and our goal is to make it drive autonomously up to 50km/h. This increase in speed from 25km/h to 50km/h requires improvements at practically all levels of our current hardware and software stack.
Robot Engineered Systems is part of Robot Robots Company and has two sister companies called Robot Care Systems and Robot Security Systems, respectively developing an elderly care robot and a security robot. Robot Robots Company is a young, fast growing scale-up company, with lots of interesting development projects going on. We all work in the same building, so you will be part of an inspiring and fun engineering team. We are located in The Hague, a few busstops from railway station Den Haag Laan van NOI.
Project description
Our vehicle is controlled using a WebGUI on a touch screen. We are in the process of renewing this user interface and can use some help to make it nicer, completer, good looking, intuitive and more feature rich. Additionally, several GUIs can be developed or improved that will support development. For example, we have a track editing tool that was build in Matlab, which should be improved (refactored) and should preferably be ported to Python. Experience with HTML5, CSS, and modern javascript frameworks (such as AngularJS and ReactJS) and UI frameworks (such as Semantic UI) is desired. Experience with PyQt can also be useful.