Embedded Autonomy

Name	Embedded Autonomy
Type of course	Lecture in English
Performing	Prof. Dr. Selma Saidi, Dr. Björn Fiethe
Semester	Summer
Dates	Lecture: Tuesdays 13:15 - 15:45, HS 66.1                Wednesdays 15:45 - 16:30, HS 66.1 Exercise: Seminar as a block course at the end of the semester Start: 14.04.2026
Weekly semester hours	3+1
Exam	Oral examination max. 30 minutes. Lecture-related seminar work with written report.
StudIP link to lecture	studip.tu-braunschweig.de/dispatch.php/course/details
StudIP link to exercise	studip.tu-braunschweig.de/dispatch.php/course/details

Contents

This course offers basic knowledge in the platforms used in autonomous systems as well as very recent fields required to the design of safe autonomous systems considering functional and non-functional aspects (e.g., safety, reliability). It is conveyed to implement simple autonomous systems tasks (Sensor fusion and AI computation which pose special demands on the architectures in order to implement the Percieve - Decide - Act loop) on embedded platforms. Goal is to balance the performance limitations of the platform against the complexity of tasks and therefore find an optimal utilization of the resources.

1. Requirements on functional safety
2. Providing and preserving trustworthiness in Autonomous Systems
3. System Architectures and Platforms for Autonomous Systems
4. Verification of Autonomous Systems

Literature

• Christopher Rouff. “Autonomous and Autonomic Systems: With Applications to NASA Intelligent Spacecraft Operations and Exploration Systems” (NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering). SpringerVerlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.
• Samuel Kounev, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Aleksandar Milenkoski, and Xiaoyun Zhu. „Self-Aware Computing Systems”. Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1st edition, 2017.
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Broad Agency Announcement - Assured Autonomy, August 2017
• Selma Saidi, Dirk Ziegenbein, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Rolf Ernst: : “Autonomous Systems Design: Charting a New Discipline”, IEEE Design and Test Magazine 2021.