The Software Technologies Research Group (SWT) is building a digital model railway for use in teaching, especially for student projects and the practicals of the new module “SWT-RSD-B: Reactive Systems Design“ that will start in Summer Semester 2017. This will give students a realistic case study of a safety-critical system, thereby supporting the learning of important principles for their design, programming and testing/verification.
In this context we are offering several individual and/or team student projects of all kinds (Bachelor & Master, 6, 9 & 12 ECTS), which cover several aspects of establishing SWT's model railway. Foci are on the development of software for digital control and programming and, in particular, on the connection to the commercial model-based development environment SCADE. Examples of project topics are:
- The design and implementation of a flexible API for controlling the model railway;
- The design and implementation of a control panel and its GUI for operating the model railway;
- The design of the railway tracks with respect to critical problems in the field of computer science;
- The implementation of some of the model railway functionality in SCADE.
The ideal project students will have an interest in the model-based development of safety-critical software. Programming skills in C and/or GUI-programming are desirable but not mandatory; missing knowledge can be compensated during the project.
If you are interested in this project, please contact either Mr. Johannes Gareis (johannes.gareis@uni-bamberg.de) or Prof. Dr. Gerald Lüttgen (gerald.luettgen@uni-bamberg.de) at the earliest opportunity.