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Airbus takes PDEng trainees on a flight into the future
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“Whenever people ask me about the project I’m doing for Airbus, I tell them that we’re working with lasers in space, like in a sci-fi movie,” jokes PDEng Software Technology trainee Nastaran Bajalan. She’s leading the team that’s looking into free-space optical communication, one of two collaborations the aerospace giant has embarked on with the TUE’s post-graduate program.
“I got to know the PDEng program four years ago,” recalls Airbus research scientist Sergio Feo Arenis. “Back then, I worked at the European Space Agency and we did a project together with the program, developing algorithms for getting drones to fly in formation. That left such a positive impression on me that when they contacted me again a few months ago, now at Airbus, asking me if we had any interesting projects to collaborate on, I immediately jumped at the opportunity.”
Noise perception
Feo Arenis came up with not one but two projects. In the first one, the PDEng trainees are engineering and analyzing new communication networks based on free-space optics (FSO). “So enabling communication between different locations on Earth, not using cables or radio waves but light,” explains the Airbus researcher. “Together with the trainees, we’re developing a simulation framework to provide insight into the performance of these massively parallel systems communicating using FSO.”
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