Found 1229 study abroad units
ENN519 Entrepreneurship and Applications
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces you to advanced design practice and fundamental entrepreneurial concepts. The unit combines skills in robotics with entrepreneurship. You will work in a team and apply your new knowledge in entrepreneurship to devise an idea for a robotic artefact or system that solves a customer’s problem or satisfies a demand in the market. You will learn to think about a business case for your idea, identify potential customers, and analyse the market situation. In your team, you will apply Robotics, AI and advanced design methods to evaluate your product or service idea based on its technology feasibility, desirability, and commercial viability. You will heavily draw on the project management and team skills learned as an engineer.
ENN523 Advanced Network Engineering
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- School/discipline
- School of Computer Science
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This is an advanced-level networks unit highlighting the systems approach and top-down method for service-oriented planning and design of large-scale computer networks. It introduces the theory and methodology to assemble various network technologies in a cohesive fashion for network planning and design to address the connectivity, scalability, reliability, security, quality-of-service, cloud data centres, and other recent developments of networks. Computer networks have become an integrated part of the fundamental infrastructure in modern industries and societies. Building new networks or upgrading existing networks requires a deep understanding of the concepts and principles of advanced network engineering and particularly network architecture. This advanced network engineering unit helps develop such a deep understanding. The knowledge and skills developed from this unit are relevant to networks and cybersecurity, and other related majors.
ENN524 Mobile Network Engineering
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- School/discipline
- School of Computer Science
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Wireless communications, mobile networks and Internet of Things have been widely deployed and integrated into various mobile platforms for value-added services. This unit highlights the recent advances in wireless local area and wireless wide area networks, vehicular networks and Internet of Things with focus on basic principles, selected standards and protocols. The unit also provides an overview for mobile satellite systems and navigation satellite systems and applications
ENN530 Asset and Facility Management
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Professionals are often involved in the management of processes and infrastructure including transportation, water, energy, buildings and telecommunications. In today's business environment, the safe and efficient maintenance and management of these assets and associated risks is critical. The professionals need to know how to manage the whole of life cycle of assets; organise maintenance based on condition and reliability assessments; and create as well as implement effective safety and environmental systems, asset management and maintenance plans so as to meet the business objectives of the organisation.
ENN531 Advanced Materials and Engineering Applications
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The unit introducing recent development of materials and their potential applications. The advances in microanalysis and modelling techniques will be also covered. The unit teaches the inter-relationships amongst the microstructure, properties and processing so that the fundamental principle of structure-property relationship and materials selection can be understood. The unit also provides students an opportunity to apply the knowledge to analyze a typical material problem through project work and practice class. Understanding of the fundamental relationships between the microstructure and properties in materials is critical to development of robust designs and/or manufacturing methods. This unit provides knowledge in advanced materials, their properties, application, processing, characterization and simulation. This is an advanced unit which is relevant and built on other materials and manufacturing units.
ENN532 Safety and Environmental Management
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Professional engineers work within a legislative framework which includes regulations related to safety and environmental impact. This unit provides students with an overview of the governing regulations, and an understanding of the associated responsibilities and duties of professional engineers in assessing and managing risk to ensure safety, and in assessing and mitigating environmental impact. This will include the analysis of case studies which will form the basis for engineering design work in safety systems and environmental impact mitigation systems.
ENN534 Industry 4.0 in Engineering Practice
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The fourth industrial revolution, or “Industry 4.0”, is a term that has come to embody the rapid implementation of digital technologies, big data, interconnected systems, and automation within the manufacturing industry to drive improved productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and realize many other benefits. In this unit, key elements of Industry 4.0 as they apply to engineering practice and advanced manufacturing will be developed based on current and emerging industry best practice. You will learn how to implement advanced sensing and data collection, machine learning, process simulation, and concepts around lean, green practices, in the design of products and processes in a practice-based setting. You will emerge with a practical knowledge of how to enact digital transformation within a manufacturing environment and the ability to utilize the resulting connectedness to enhance social, economic, and environmental benefits for an organisation.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN535 Robotic Manufacturing
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Since the 1960s and throughout the 3rd industrial revolution (Industry 3.0), the implementation of robotics in manufacturing has resulted in major advances in precision, safety, reliability, productivity and a minimisation of cost and downtime. Now with Industry 4.0 and beyond seeing unprecedented levels of system connectivity, virtualisation, and ever advancing technological development including the emergence of collaborative robotics, practical engineering skills and expertise in modern robotics are more important than ever. This unit provides you with an introduction to robotics in Advanced Manufacturing and will allow you to develop your knowledge of robotic automation of manufacturing processes and the design of such systems in practice. You will learn about the range of robotics employed in industry, be exposed to the engineering fundamentals of robotic design, vision, and control, and use simulation tools in the design and optimisation of robotic manufacturing processes.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN536 Leadership in Digital Manufacturing
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
To realise the huge benefits of digital transformation within the manufacturing industry, engineers must understand, advocate for, and lead the transition to smart manufacturing. Leadership skills and management frameworks that allow engineering leaders to navigate and succeed within rapidly changing technological and operational environments are critical. In this unit you will learn key approaches to leading projects, people, and change within Advanced Manufacturing. Project, quality, risk, and change management in manufacturing will be covered, and you will get a strong foundation and practical experience using Agile Management, Lean Management, and an understanding of where diversity and sustainability fit within the constant change and improvement of an industry.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN537 Bioproduct Separation and Purification
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Separation and purification technologies are critical for recovery and commercialisation of bioproducts from industrial fermentation processes. This unit introduces key industrial separation and purification technologies, such as extraction, adsorption, membrane filtration, and chromatography technologies, briefs recent advances in new materials and designs to improve separation efficiency. This unit also explains the principles of design and selection of separation and purification technologies for specific bioproducts, including alcohols, organic acids, protein/enzymes and pharmaceuticals. Product storage and stabilisation strategies for some specific bioproducts such as protein and enzymes are also introduced.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN538 Industrial Fermentation
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The transition to a low-carbon economy needs the production of food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, polymers and many other products using more sustainable approaches. Fermentation technologies that employ microorganisms to convert renewable carbon sources into bioproducts play a significant role in low-carbon economy and circular bioeconomy. This unit introduces different types of fermentation, the relationship between chemical reactors and bioreactors, design principles of fermenters, key parameters in bioprocess control and optimisation, and key factors in bioprocess scale-up. Several existing and emerging industrial fermentation processes will be introduced as examples to explain how the biological and engineering knowledge is integrated for manufacturing bioproducts.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN539 Foundations of Industrial Biotechnology
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Industrial biotechnology employs microorganisms as cell factories for synthesis of a wide variety of bioproducts. This unit overviews the foundations of industrial biotechnology and explain how they are used for producing food, feed, biofuels, biochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. It covers the key concepts of biochemistry and microbiology that are fundamental to all aspects of industrial biotechnology, and introduces fundamentals of genetic engineering, metabolic engineering and synthetic biology and their applications for manufacturing bioproducts. Moreover, technical and non-technical aspects of commercialisation of bioproducts including research and development, intellectual property, quality management systems, regulations, ethics and safety will be discussed. This enables students to gain skills required for employment in a broader area of biomanufacturing sectors.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN543 Data Analytics and Optimisation
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
There is a growing need for engineers to understand underlying patterns and characteristics of vast amounts of data collected from various sources by performing advanced data analytics and optimisation to transform data into understandable and actionable information for the purpose of making decisions. This unit develops your knowledge to improve the economy and efficiency of systems, processes, and enterprises through data analytics and optimisation. The unit focuses on application of statistical, and optimisation methods to solve complex problems involving large data sets from multiple sources.
ENN544 Sustainable Practice in Engineering
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Sustainable development has become a global agenda that impacts on our work and everyday life. Sustainability principles and practices are rapidly becoming embedded in all phases of engineering projects from planning, design, construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, through to mining and manufacturing, energy and water utilities. Engineers need to ensure that their decision making is guided by the fundamental principles of sustainable development.The unit will introduce you to principles, challenges and skills for dealing with a diversity of trans-disciplinary issues in engineering sustainable development. By introducing critical sustainability theory and challenging best practices, this unit will prepare you for the impending changes that are necessary in all built environment and engineering disciplines.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN554 Design of Renewable Energy Production Systems
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Engineers are facing increasing need to understand the fundamental technologies for producing and storing renewable energy so they can make informed choices about projects involving renewable energy. This unit will provide you with the knowledge to understand the characteristics of these technologies, and the skills to evaluate the implementation of these technologies into real-world applications. This unit focuses on the design of renewable energy technologies and the tools used to analyse these systems.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN555 Operation and Maintenance of Renewable Energy Systems
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
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Operational and Maintenance aspects of renewable energy systems are critical for engineers who work with these technologies. This unit will provide you with the knowledge and skills to model and make operational decisions to optimise system outcomes. This unit focuses on reliability, maintenance and energy dispatch modelling for renewable energy production and storage technologies.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN556 Sustainable Fuels
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
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Energy carriers and fuels are an essential part of the mix when moving to a sustainable future. This unit will provide you with the knowledge and skills to understand their implementation and evaluate their value in the renewable energy sector. This unit focuses on hydrogen as an energy carrier, and its role in a low carbon economy, but will also cover other sustainable fuels such as methane and methanol.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN570 Enterprise Resource Planning
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- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Enterprise Systems are now essential infrastructure to both large as well as to small-to-medium (SME) organisations, as they realise the necessity of a single central database instead of a large number of separate databases. By integrating core business processes in one single application, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) helps companies maximize the efficiency of business processes across the entire organization including increases in on-time delivery, productivity, forecasting demand and production capacity. This unit aims to provide the fundamental understanding of various Enterprise Systems, functions and modules and how they can be integrated in a business context. The students will be trained to develop a real-life ERP system based on actual data from industry. This unit will also aim to help students to refine their communication and group work skills and assist in the development of research-based skills. This is a core unit for Master of Engineering Management.
ENN571 Transport Safety Analysis and Evaluation
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Road traffic crashes represent a huge burden to society, and transport agencies have committed to zero road fatalities. Road safety decision needs appropriate modelling tools and techniques for safe infrastructure design and evidence-based and effective road safety interventions. This unit with has two modules, where the first module will introduce you to the fundamentals of transport safety analysis using crash and injury data sources, and the second module focuses on state-of-the-art safety evaluation techniques.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN572 Artificial Intelligence in Transport
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The goal of smart transport systems is to increase safety, reduce traffic congestion, and its detrimental socio-economic and environmental impacts, and support to decarbonise the transport sector. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and technology provide new avenues to smartly achieve the above-mentioned goals. This unit will introduce you to fundamentals of artificial intelligence and how AI enables the future of mobility. You will also grow your skills in techniques for advanced transport data analytics that can be applied to develop predictive models for transport operations and control in line with contemporary engineering practice.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN573 Econometrics of People and Freight Transport
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Econometric modelling provides tools to study consumer choice behaviours and is needed in various fields of transport, economics, psychology, and sociology. Econometric models are essential components for transport planning and demand analysis, including route choice, mode choice, freight demand and safety analysis. This unit incorporates two modules, where the first module will introduce you to the fundamentals of econometric modelling and the second module focuses on its applications in transport and recent developments in passenger and freight transport analysis.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN574 Catchment Hydrology and Flood Modelling
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Specialist professional engineers use a depth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex systems design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this specialist postgraduate unit, you will address complex problems related to modelling of rainfall/runoff in both non-urbanised and urbanised catchments. You will learn the processes that govern catchment hydrology, as well as how they can be modelled. The focus will be on state-of-the-art models and tools used in the cutting edge engineering practice. You will also hone your specialist skills in critical appraisal, analysis, synthesis and creativity, focusing on current regulations. You will demonstrate your ability to communicate specialist discipline knowledge and concepts in written, modelled and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences including responding to risk, ethics and stakeholder perspectives.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN575 Artificial Intelligence in Water Modelling
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The goal of modelling water systems (flood and water quality) is to understand their behaviour and predict future changes, investigate their environmental and socio-economic impacts, and support policy development in the water sector. Recent advancements in AI and technology provide new avenues to smartly achieve the above-mentioned goals. This unit will introduce you to fundamentals of AI and how AI enables the future of flood and water quality prediction. You will also grow your skills in techniques for advanced flood and water quality data analytics that can be applied to develop predictive models for water systems in line with contemporary engineering practice.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN577 Integrated Water Modelling
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- School/discipline
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) provides strategies for designing, planning and managing the components of urban water cycle while accounting for their mutual interdependence, as well as their interactions with the wider environmental and human systems. This unit contains two modules: the first six weeks focuses on learning modelling of complex water systems. It includes model conceptualisation, construction, evaluation, and application. You will explore the relationship between theoretical and empirical understanding to conceptualise and construct integrated water models. In the second 6 week module, you will work on a group project to solve real-world problems using the modelling skills developed during first 6 weeks. You will develop professional judgement skills to critically assess models and their outcomes to design strategies for integrated water management problems.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this postgraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
ENN581 Robot Motion, Control and Planning
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit will provide knowledge on principal aspects of robot motion, control and planning which is crucial in Robotics. This will provide an understanding of the dynamics, kinematics and control of mobile and manipulator arm robots.
ENN582 Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
Robots are autonomous systems that rely on a variety of control technologies. This unit provides understanding of key concepts in optimal control and reinforcement learning concepts for use in the design of robotic systems. This unit prepares students for building robotics systems in future careers.
ENN583 Foundations of Robotic Vision
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides the foundation for robotic vision, which includes an introduction to computer vision concepts and the use of deep learning models for robotic vision applications. This unit will further demonstrate how these concepts are utilised in solving real-world robotic vision problems such as visual odometry, visual SLAM, place recognition, object detection and semantic segmentation, and provide you with practical experience in implementing algorithms for real-world robotic vision tasks.
ENN584 Robot Systems
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The unit will be focused on two main aspects of robotic systems, 1) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and 2) Mobile Robotics. Mapping and localization are key capabilities for artificial agents that move (e.g. robots, autonomous vehicles, or drones). The unit will provide a theoretical and practical foundation for developing and implementing mapping and localization systems for a range of robotics-related applications. Further, half of the robotics field concerns robots and systems that move: mobile service and consumer robots, social robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and unmanned autonomous ground vehicles in sectors including mining, agriculture, ports, planetary exploration etc. Therefore, the second half of the unit will provide students with an overview of the key concepts in mobile robots and autonomous systems, while also providing the opportunity to explore the human-machine interaction in areas such as social robotics.
ENN585 Advanced Machine Learning
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Building on the foundational units for machine learning, reinforcement learning, and robotic vision, this unit covers advanced topics in machine learning. Topics include deep imitation and reinforcement learning, probabilistic machine learning approximations, transformers, generative machine learning including diffusion models, as well as large language and vision-language models and their applications in robotics. Example applications will focus on robotic vision and control domains. The unit also discusses the ethical principles and techniques that inform the development and responsible use of artificial intelligence technology.
ENN586 Decision and Control
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- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Postgraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
Robots are autonomous systems that rely on a variety of decision and control technologies. This unit provides an understanding of the estimation, model uncertainty, decision making and practical control aspects used in the design of robotic systems. This unit prepares students for building robotics systems in future careers.