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Essential detailsCutting-edge innovations like autonomous vehicles, reusable spacecraft, and drone technology are becoming more dependent on autonomous system design and implementation. This program equips you to tackle the demands of an international market, focusing particularly on self-operating vehicles and mobile robots functioning across terrestrial, aerial, and extraterrestrial environments.Program advantagesYou'll acquire comprehensive expertise in the latest developments across Robotics, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Human-Machine Collaboration, Communication Networks, and Control Systems.The curriculum also enhances your practical abilities through hands-on laboratory sessions in programming and embedded systems development, complemented by industry-focused design projects.Beyond technical training, the program covers the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding Autonomous Systems, along with the ethical considerations tied to their real-world application.Learning approachInstruction combines theoretical lectures, practical design projects, tutorial sessions, laboratory exercises, and expert-led seminars. These learning formats are delivered by both academic specialists and industry professionals with deep field experience.
The programme is designed for those who have a second class degree, as minimum, in engineering and computer science. Applicants with a background in mathematics or life sciences with good mathematical skills (in linear algebra and calculus in particular) will also be considered. Applicants with strong work experience in computing or engineering may also be considered. Competence in an object-oriented programming language (preferable Python) is desirable. If you are an applicant whose first language is not English, the following qualifications are required: IELTS: 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in all four components); TOEFL 92 (minimum of 20 in Listening, Reading and Speaking, and 22 in Writing).