Curriculum for Autonomous Systems
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc degree in Autonomous Systems, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 5 ECTS
- Have passed Programme specific courses adding up to at least 55 ECTS
- Have performed a Master thesis of 30 ECTS points within the field of the general program
- Have passed a sufficient number of Elective courses to bring the total number of ECTS of the entire study to 120 ECTS
Curriculum
Polytechnical foundation courses (5 ECTS)
The following course is mandatory
42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:
42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
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42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
Programme specific courses (55 ECTS)
Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
34755 | Building dependable robot systems | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
38103 | X-Tech Entrepreneurship | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
38107 | Business Design for Sustainability | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (5 ECTS)
34762 | Introduction to Autonomous Systems | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS) Choose from the following:
34757 | Unmanned autonomous systems | 5 | point | June |
34759 | Perception for Autonomous Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
34761 | Robot Autonomy | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
Choose 35 ECTS among the rest of the programme specific courses:
02180 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
02223 | Model-Based Systems Engineering | 7.5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
02285 | Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems | 7.5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
02291 | System Integration | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
02456 | Deep learning | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
02476 | Machine Learning Operations | 5 | point | January |
02610 | Optimization and Data Fitting | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
02612 | Constrained Optimization | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
02614 | High-Performance Computing | 5 | point | January |
30554 | Global Navigation Satellite Systems | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
34241 | Digital video technology | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
34366 | Intelligent systems | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
34367 | Project in Intelligent Systems | 5 | point | January |
34721 | Linear control design 1 | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) and Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
34745 | Linear control design 2 | 10 | point | Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
34752 | Bio-inspired control for robots | 5 | point | January |
34753 | Robotics | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
34755 | Building dependable robot systems | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
34757 | Unmanned autonomous systems | 5 | point | June |
34759 | Perception for Autonomous Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
34760 | Safety and Reliability in Robotic and Automation Systems | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
34761 | Robot Autonomy | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
Elective Courses
Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme specific courses in excess of the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as much as 10 credit points among the bachelor courses at DTU and courses at an equivalent level from other higher institutions. In addition, it is possible to take MSc-level courses at other Danish universities or abroad.
Head of Studies
Evangelos Boukas Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering evanb@dtu.dk