Internship details

• Duration: 6 months (starting date is flexible)

• Location: Toulouse

• Internship subject: Development of Rainman : an acquisition station for perception sensors in harsh weather - Internship Toulouse

• Team: EZDrive (Sensors)

• Internship tutor: Antonin Deville

• Monthly gratuity 1000€ gross, tickets restaurant Swile, CSE

Mission

Adverse weather conditions are an unavoidable challenge for autonomous driving. Rain, snow and fog impact massively the environment perception by common sensor technologies. To get around these effects, field data needs to be acquired, including weather metrics. Climatic chambers allow for reproducible weather conditions but are not perfectly representative of real-world conditions. A solution to acquire field data is an automated setup racking sensors of interest (LiDARS and radars), triggered by weather indicators. This would allow to build a robust dataset of perception sensors in degraded weather conditions. As the architecture of the automated station has been defined, the main hardware components are readily available and installed. The objective of the internship is to develop the software architecture the components within the existing Easymile robotic stack (ROS-based) and to deploy a first operational version of the station.

The main tasks are:

• Analysis of the current state: Understand the proposed infrastructure (hardware, network) and the existing software components to use 

• Design the solution: Propose a architecture for the solution to develop and integrate

• Develop a prototype: Implement the solution in a first version to be tested and operated

• Deploy the a prototype: Install the solution into the field up to the commissioning phase

There is no typical profile at EasyMile, we all come from different backgrounds and that is what makes us strong! Don’t hesitate to apply if you are motivated and interested in innovative transportation and technologies.

We are looking for:

• Master Degrees student

• Demonstrating autonomy and initiative

• Development to monitor sensors data (Python, C++)

• Familiar with Linux systems development, including Docker

Desirable:

• Experience with ROS middleware

• Physics of weather phenomena (rain, fog, snow)

• Physics of perception sensors

• Experienced in Dataset/Database management

• 30 minutes call with the Recruitment Team

• Meeting with the team, technical tests 

• One hour interview with the tutor and the Recruitment Team