Seminar Communicating Autonomous Vehicles 2023s [HS 2023s]

Contents

The fundamental bases of all scientific work are: finding, reviewing, and collating related work as well as presenting findings both orally and in writing. After a theoretical introduction, each participant of this seminar will be tasked with going through these steps, guided by instructors.

Prerequisites

This class may have substantial online components. To be able to join, you must be able to make use of

• web video conferencing systems

Before enrolling, please try these out and contact us if you do not fulfill these requirements.

Beyond this, there are no formal prerequisites for joining.

Learning Outcome

In the course of the seminar, attendants will refine their skills of quickly familiarizing themselves with new material, extracting relevant details, and presenting their results orally as well as in writing.

General Information / Methods

This course will be held in English (German, if universally preferred) and all the course material is available in English. Course material will be distributed/collected via OPAL.

For participation, the following mode is fixed:

• All slides will be presented in a weekly interactive physical meeting or live stream for synchronous learning. The streaming platform is the TU Dresden BigBlueButton instance, with Zoom as a fall-back. Times and dates as well as links will be published here.
• Weekly plenary meetings will replace the weekly live stream after the introductory phase.

Questions? Comments? Join the discussion in our Matrix Room #nsm-course-hs:tu-dresden.de (reachable from the TU Dresden Matrix server) or add a post to our OPAL forum!

Grading

Grades will be based on seminar thesis (50 %) and talk (50 %).

If you want to get a grade, please pre-register the exam with us in the first two weeks of lecture. This is in addition to the regular exam registration you will need to do later in the semester. See the organizational slide deck for details.

Instructors

• Christoph Sommer

Timeline

See slide deck on organization below. In the first week, we will be assigning topics. The following weeks, we will have a primer on scientific work.

Web Meeting Links

The class will be run both physically and as a web meeting in the first week. For the location on campus, see the section “In a nutshell” above. For the link to the web meeting, see below. We will begin by discussing how to continue the course (physical or virtual).

• Click here to join the web meeting

In case of technical difficulties, please check the Matrix room.

Slides

• 00-org.pdf - Organization
• more: see OPAL