A NEW fast-track course in driverless vehicle technology has been launched by Coventry University.
Connected Automated Vehicle Systems (CAV-Systems) is a five-day continuous professional development course aiming to augment the skills and knowledge needed to keep pace with the advances made in driverless technology.
It has been set up in collaboration with Horiba Mira – a leading global provider of automotive engineering, research and test services.
The programme takes some of the key elements present in Coventry University’s longer CAV-Systems MSc and condenses them to address a wide range of topics in smaller bite-size units.
Among the subjects covered are cybersecurity, sensor perception, vehicle ‘vision’ and machine learning.
The courses can either be taken publicly or as a closed course specifically tailored for an individual company, delivered at the MIRA Technology Institute.
For those taking the course, the aim is to boost their knowledge and understanding of the CAV sector to enable them to produce automated driving systems (ADS) in CAV applications.
Deepak Farmah, Coventry University’s head of innovation, said: “Self-driving vehicles are often talked about in the media as the future of transport but the technology to make this a reality is still being refined and improved.
“Currently, most self-driving vehicles are used on private land as the technology to deploy them on the UK’s public roads is not reliable enough.
“If we are to fully realise the potential of self-driving vehicles, we need as many industry professionals as possible to understand the systems involved to drive and deliver the innovation.”
The course was launched commercially after a successful pilot was undertaken with funding from Innovate UK.
Visit cuebusinesssolutions.com/cavs/ for more on the course – the next one starts on June 19.
