Master Thesis: Adaptive Indoor - Outdoor Positioning

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In short

Master's thesis project to design and evaluate an adaptive positioning framework combining technologies like GNSS, cellular, and Wi-Fi for seamless indoor/outdoor location services. Requires strong background in engineering physics, electrical engineering, or computer science, with programming skills in MATLAB/Python and knowledge of optimization/machine learning.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evaluate an adaptive positioning framework combining information from multiple positioning technologies.
  • Review recent research on indoor and outdoor positioning, including GNSS, cellular positioning, and Wi-Fi.
  • Develop an adaptive framework for seamless positioning across different environments.
  • Investigate methods for combining information from multiple positioning technologies.
  • Evaluate the system in terms of positioning accuracy, reliability, and continuity.
  • Validate the proposed approach through simulations under different user and environmental conditions.
  • Analyze and discuss the results.
  • Derive practical design guidelines for robust and ubiquitous positioning systems.
  • Present and document findings in a Master’s thesis.

Requirements

  • Motivated MSc student.
  • Academic background in engineering physics, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
  • Strong interest in wireless communications, signal processing, and positioning.
  • Knowledge of programming and algorithm development using MATLAB or Python.
  • Strong mathematical foundation.
  • Knowledge of optimization and machine learning techniques.
  • Ability to conduct systematic research and explore innovative solutions.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a team.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.

Desired Qualifications

  • Please attach a transcript of records to your application, showing your completed courses and grades.

Benefits

  • Outstanding opportunity to use skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible.
  • Chance to build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems.
  • Challenging work environment.
  • Joining a team of diverse innovators driven to go beyond the status quo.
  • Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization.
  • Championing diversity in everything done.
  • Collaboration with people with different experiences drives innovation.
  • Opportunity to realize full potential as part of the Ericsson team.
  • Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Skills

MATLABPythonoptimizationmachine learning
#GNSS#cellular positioning#Wi-Fi#wireless communications#signal processing#positioning
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Company

Ericsson

Job Posted

2 days ago

Employment Type

Internship

Work mode

On Site

Experience Level

Student

Locations

Luleå, Sweden

Qualification

Master

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