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Overview
What you will study
The aim of this Guidance and Navigation for Autonomous Systems course offered by Cranfield University is to provide you with a fundamental understanding and knowledge of conventional and modern guidance and navigation for autonomous systems.
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:
- Critically understand the fundamentals of the various guidance techniques and their properties
- Describe the algorithms that are required to produce an estimate of position and attitude
- Demonstrate the characteristics, purposes, and design procedures of guidance and navigation systems
- Evaluate challenging problems in the guidance and navigation approaches for autonomous systems
- Demonstrate challenging issues of the cooperative guidance design and critically evaluate the cooperative guidance systems to be able to enhance the overall performance.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Navigation and guidance systems
- Path planning for UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle)
- UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) guidance systems
- Guidance approaches: conventional guidance such as PN (Proportional Navigation), geometric guidance, path planning and following, and optimal guidance
- Navigation approaches: navigation systems, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), terrain based navigation, SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping)
- Cooperative guidance and collision avoidance
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 7 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- Please enquire for course dates
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Industrial & Systems Engineering View 30 other Short Courses in Industrial & Systems Engineering in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is ideal for engineers with interest in guidance and navigation systems.
Tuition Fee
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International
1850 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1850 GBP for the full programme during 7 days. -
National
1850 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1850 GBP for the full programme during 7 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
700 - 1300 GBP /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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