COURSE FEATURES Department of Computer Science

Autonomous Systems
• Study an internationally accredited, English language Autonomous Systems
degree programme Master of Science (MSc)
• Work with state-of-the-art robots
• Be a part of high-profile, multidiscipilinary research projects
• Cooperate with high caliber, industrial and research partners
• Prepare for a career in academia, research or industry
• Become involved in the award-winning RoboCup team:

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AT A GLANCE

WE‘RE HERE TO HELP Degree

Master of Science (MSc)
• Close mentoring by faculty members Campus Sankt Augustin
• One on one support from current students (study buddies) Programme duration Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS)
• Great benefit from small class sizes and a tightly-knit 4 semesters (2 years) Grantham-Allee 20
community 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Teaching language
English
Contact us
THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Start of programme [email protected]

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• Summer Semester (March)
• Live and study in one of the nicest regions of Germany • Winter Semester (September) Iman Awaad M.Sc.,
• Join free classes in German and other languages Programme Coordinator
• Take the opportunity to spend a semester at one of the Application windows Tel. +49 2241 865 295
programme‘s partner universities For those who need a visa: [email protected]
• Obtain a dual degree from the University of New Brunswick • Summer Semester intake: May 15 to July 15
(UNB) in Canada • Winter Semester intake: November 15 to January 15
For general information and
For those who need no visa: application to the programme
• Summer Semester intake: May 15 to February 15 Registrar‘s Office
OUR ALUMNI • Winter Semester intake: November 15 to August 15 Tel. +49 2241 865 697
[email protected]
Employers include companies such as Siemens, Bosch, BMW, Admission requirements www.h-brs.de/en/registrar-services
Google, IBM, Amazon and Boston Dynamics; institutes such • An academic degree (bachelor´s or equivalent)
as Caesar, DLR, DFKI and the three Fraunhofer branches in the with at least 50 % computer science content

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region (IAIS, FKIE and SCAI) as well as others further away. • A GPA of 2.5 or less on the German grading scale
• Proof of English language proficiency (B2+)
Candidates have obtained PhDs from German universities such
as RWTH Aachen and the University of Bonn. They have also More information www.h-brs.de/en
earned PhDs at numerous universities around the world from www.h-brs.de/en/inf/autonomous-systems-msc www.facebook.com/AutonomousSystemsProgram
Australia to the USA and Canada. A number of these have also
become professors.

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 ABOUT US THE PROGRAMME

The master´s programme in Autonomous Systems is offered The Autonomous Systems Group conducts cutting-edge,
by the Applied Sciences Institute of the Bonn-Aachen Inter- interdisciplinary research to enable the intelligence necessary
national Center for Information Technology (b-it) which is a for robot autonomy in dynamic environments. To address the
cooperative partnership between two renowned German challenges of such environments, we develop explainable,
centers of excellence: the Department of Computer Science trustworthy and dependable systems by leveraging artificial
at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS) and the Fraunhofer intelligence research.
Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS).
The focus is on enabling and integrating the necessary intel-
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS) ligence behind the autonomous behaviour of artificial agents
H-BRS was founded in 1995 with campuses located in Sankt rather than on the hardware-related aspects of robotics.
Augustin, Hennef and Rheinbach. The programme is taught I had a wonderful
in Sankt Augustin which is located close to the cities of Bonn time at H-BRS and in Bonn. The academic year is divided into two semesters. The pro-
and Cologne (commuting by public transport is possible I really felt comfortable gramme covers four semesters (2 years). Since the program-
from both cities). and welcome. The profes- me is a master by a research, students earn half of their
sors and staff were very credits through projects and applied research.
The Department of Computer Science is consistently ranked encouraging and always
amongst the top departments in various Germany-wide ready to help. In the first semester, students take a number of core courses
academic university rankings. followed by a compulsory seminar. During their second and
T. Hassan, India third semesters applied research modules are complemented
Cooperation CURRICULUM by elective courses, e.g.:
The Fraunhofer organisation is the largest application-
Semester
oriented research organisation in Europe with 66 institutes 1. 2. 3. 4. • Deep Learning for Robot Vision
around Germany. Three Fraunhofer Institutes – the Institute • Engineering Safe and Secure Autonomous Systems
for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS), the Advanced Software Elective Elective • Fault Detection and Diagnosis
Technology
Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) • Machine Learning
Elective Elective
Lectures

and the Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) – Artificial Intelligence • Natural Language Processing
are conveniently located in Schloss Birlinghoven, close to the Elective • Neural Networks
Autonomous Mobile Robots
university, while the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, • Planning and Scheduling
Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE) is also in the Mathematics for Robotics • Robot Perception
vicinity. and Control • Probabilistic Reasoning

Our students also benefit from our cooperation with various

Seminars

other research and industrial partners, such as the German Introduction to Scientific Advanced Scientific Research and
Working Working Development
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), German
Colloquium
Aerospace Center (DLR), Toyota Motors Europe,
KELO Robotics GmbH
Research and
and MeasX.
Applied Reearch

Development Project Master´s Colloquium

Master´s Thesis
Software Development
Project

Scientific Experimentation
and Evaluation

The current curriculum can be found here: http://curriculum.inf.h-brs.de

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