Embedded Autonomy

Name	Embedded Autonomy
Art der Veranstaltung	Vorlesung in Englisch
Durchführend	Prof. Dr. Selma Saidi, Dr. Björn Fiethe
Semester	Sommersemester
Termin	Vorlesung: Dienstag 15:00 - 17:30, R1218, HS66 Übung: Seminar als Blockveranstaltung am Ende des Semesters Beginn: 15.04.2025
Semesterwochenstunden	3+1
Prüfungsart	Klausur 90 Minuten oder mündliche Prüfung max. 30 Minuten. Vorlesungsbegleitende Projektarbeit mit schriftlichem Bericht.
StudIP Vorlesungslink	studip.tu-braunschweig.de/dispatch.php/course/details
StudIP Übungslink	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.