Master of Science by Coursework in Autonomous Robotics

1. The Divisional Board of Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences shall elect for the supervision of the course a Standing Committee, which shall have the power to arrange lectures and other instruction. The Course Director will report to the Standing Committee.

2. Candidates must follow a course of instruction in Autonomous Robotics.

3. The course is available on a full-time basis for a minimum of 3 terms.

4. In the following ‘the Course Handbook’ refers to the Autonomous Robotics Handbook and supplements to this published by the Standing Committee for Autonomous Robotics.

5. Candidates must complete all of the following assessment:

a) Assessment will be by either coursework or laboratory-based submissions. Details of the assessment requirements will be published in the Course Handbook by the beginning of the Michaelmas Full Term in the academic year of the examination.

i. Robotics Research Review

ii. Robotics Project Proposal

iii. Programming for Robotics

iv. Machine Learning for Robotics

v. Robotics Group Project I

vi. Robotics Group Project II

b) Written examinations:

vii. Robotics Foundations

vii. Autonomous Robotic Systems

c) A dissertation of not more than 40 pages on a topic selected by the candidate in consultation with the supervisor and approved by the Standing Committee.

6. The assessed work set out in clause 5 shall be submitted electronically, in accordance with the details given in the Course Handbook.

7. The dissertation in clause 5 must be submitted via the approved online submission system not later than noon on the first Tuesday in September.

8. The examiners may examine any candidate viva voce on any of the elements listed in clause 5.

9. All assessment must be passed in order to be eligible for the award.

10. Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners in any of the assessments in clause 5 will be permitted to be reassessed in respect of each of the assessment(s) which they have failed on not more than one occasion which shall normally be within one year of the original failure.