Automatic Control and Robotics

The M.Sc. in Automatic Control and Robotics with a specialization in Smart Aerospace and Autonomous Systems (SAAS) offered by the Faculty of Control, Robotics and Electrical Engineering is a 3-semester program aimed at providing students with a strong foundation in the field of smart and autonomous systems aerospace and terrestrial robotics. The curriculum includes courses related to guidance, navigation, control and decision systems for autonomous operation of unmanned aerial vehicle systems, unmanned ground vehicle and autonomous and robot systems, with a focus on issues such as levels of autonomy, integration of control, online decision systems, mission planning, trajectory generation and tracking, and limited communication.

The program's goal is to merge all institutional efforts under one umbrella which is autonomous systems control. The curriculum's common core includes electrical, aeronautics, mechanical, control, computer science, and engineering courses. The program provides students with thorough hands-on experience, projects, assignments, and a Master's thesis.

Upon graduation, students will have the skills necessary to develop and implement reliable, economically safe, feasible, and environmentally responsible smart aerospace and autonomous systems, and then to advance the technology to make such autonomous systems possible. They will also have the capacity to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams, to communicate through written and oral presentations, in an international context, to transfer high techniques methodology from university to industry, and to manage an engineering team.

Potential jobs for graduates of this program include aviation and space, automotive industry, manufacturing, vehicles and autonomous systems, management and control systems of unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligent security and surveillance systems, environmental monitoring, design of embedded systems, and scientific and research institutions.