[AI-announce] Second Edition of the Course Autonomous Vehicles and Artificial Intelligence

[Sven Peldszus]

Dear students,

The chair of software engineering is pleased to offer in the upcoming 
winter term the second edition of our course on autonomous vehicles and 
artificial intelligence. As the first edition, the course is in 
cooperation with the RUB motorsport team. The course will be offered for 
Master students and for advanced Bachelor students in the programs: 
Informatik, Angewandte Informatik, ITS, and ETiT.

Autonomous driving is the future of individual mobility and all major 
manufacturers are working on fully autonomous vehicles. While there are 
robust and good solutions for the individual problems in autonomous 
driving, the main challenge lies in their integration. Altogether, an 
autonomous vehicle’s software is the biggest problem. Therefore, the key 
in self-driving vehicles is about getting the software right. In this 
course, we will investigate the different aspects of self-driving 
vehicles as well as the importance and application of artificial 
intelligence in this domain from a theoretical but especially from a 
practical perspective. All taught concepts will be practically applied 
to real robots by implementing the concepts for ROS2, a state-of-the-art 
operating system for robots. The course will primarily focus on the 
following topics (as this is the first edition of this course, we might 
dynamically adapt the topics of the course according to your practical 
needs):

  * Requirements on autonomous vehicles
  * Architecture of autonomous vehicles
  * Operation systems and frameworks for robotic systems
  * Specification and Implementation of autonomous vehicles based on ROS2
  * Artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles
  * Simulation of autonomous vehicles
  * Localization & perception
  * Mission planning
  * Quality assurance for autonomous vehicles

In the course’s lecture, we provide the required theoretical background 
and practically apply the course’s content in exercises by building a 
self-driving robot. You will be given the opportunity to program one of 
five state-of-the-art TurtleBot3 together with your group.

For more details, please, visit the corresponding Moodle course's 
information page:

https://moodle.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/course/view.php?id=48183

Courses on this topic with a focus on the software/systems engineering 
aspects are still rare worldwide; we are planning to develop the course 
further in the coming years. However, due to the practical focus of the 
course and working with real robotic hardware, we can only offer a very 
limited number of participants.

Best regards,

Thorsten Berger and Sven Peldszus

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Sven Peldszus
Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum
Fakultät für Informatik
Research Group Software Engineering