M.Sc. in Automatic Control and Robotics: Smart Aerospace and Autonomous Systems

M.Sc. in Automatic Control and Robotics, specialization - Smart Aerospace and Autonomous Systems (Faculty of Computing), duration: 3 semesters, 90 ECTS points

The Institute of Automation and Robotics of the Faculty of Computing at Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland offers a Master of Science in Automatic Control and Robotics with a specialization Smart Aerospace and Autonomous Systems (SAAS) – Autonomiczne Systemy Latające na kierunku Automatyka i Robotyka.

The last decade has seen a significant increase in research in Smart Aerospace and Autonomous Systems. Now, the field is sufficiently mature to engage in a procedure of education. From an educational point of view in the SAAS program we are interested in developing, modeling, simulating, and testing guidance, navigation, control, and decision systems for autonomous operation of unmanned aerial vehicle systems, unmanned ground vehicle, and autonomous and robot systems. Issues of special interest include the determination of levels of autonomy and integration of control, online decision systems, mission planning, trajectory generation, and tracking and limited communication.

The objective of the Master SAAS is to be an interdisciplinary degree program providing students with a strong foundation in smart and autonomous systems aerospace and terrestrial robotics thorough hands-on experience through projects, assignments, and a Master’s thesis.

One of the main aims of the proposed program study is to merge all institution efforts under one umbrella such as autonomous systems control. The curriculum’s common core represents electrical, aeronautics, mechanical, control, computer science, and engineering. At the end of their curriculum, students will be able to develop and implement reliable, safe economically feasible, and environmentally responsible smart aerospace and autonomous systems, and then to advance the technology to make such autonomous systems possible.

Key Information

• University: Poznan University of Technology Poznan, POLAND
• Degree to be obtained: Master of Science
• Program website: M.SC. IN AUTOMATIC CONTROL AND ROBOTICS
• Contact: International Relations Office ul. Piotrowo 5, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
  Language of instruction: English
• ECTS points: 90
• Duration: 1.5 years (3 semesters)
• Program begins: end of February
• Program ends: end of June
• Deadline for application: 3 months before the course starts - end of November
• Mode of instruction Lectures, classes, laboratory classes, projects, internships

Learning outcome. Students, after passing their master, will have the following skills:

• Capacity to develop and design innovative autonomous systems;
• Capacity to work both independently and in multidisciplinary teams, to communicate by written and oral presentations, in an international context;
• Capacity to transfer high techniques methodology from university to industry;
• Capacity to manage an engineering team;
• Ability to understand different European cultures and languages.

Potential jobs: Government (Law enforcement, border security, coast guard), fire and rescue (forest fire, emergency rescue), the energy sector (oil and gas industry distribution infrastructure, electricity, grids/ distribution network monitoring), communication broadcasting, surveillance, agriculture – forestry, fisheries (environmental monitoring, crop dusting, fisheries protection) and others.