Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer

The future of smart transportation is near.  This Flying Car & Autonomous Flight Engineer course will prepare you to be at the helm of a technological revolution. Throughout this course you will master techniques in planning, controls, and estimation.   

Working with the quadrotor test platform and a custom flight simulator, learners will implement planning, control, and estimation solutions in Python and C++. In this course you’ll learn from world-class experts to tackle real-world challenges.  

This Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer course will be delivered to you in partnership with Udacity, meaning you'll have access to both Udacity's learning and career services as well as RMIT Online's course enablement support through our Learner Success team.

Our Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer course is ideal for:

• Mid or senior level programmers with a special interest in aviation, autonomous flight systems, or the future of urban mobility and transportation. 
• Drone pilots or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enthusiasts with previous programming experience, and a desire to learn how to develop aircraft-ready code that can be deployed and run on quad-copter drones. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: 

• Assess and execute code for automated flight in a simulator environment 
• Implement a controller and assess performance through various simulated flight conditions 
• Estimate the in-flight status of a flying robot by applying Extended Kalman Filter to provide data 

During this course, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your newly acquired Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer skills through 4 projects. 

In the first project, you will write event-driven code to get a drone to take off, fly a predetermined path, and then land. The second project is 3D motion planning, where you will fly a drone around a complex urban environment. In the third project, you will build a controller, and in the fourth, you will implement an EFK to estimate the altitude and position from IMU and GPD data of a flying robot. 

At the end of the course, you will receive an RMIT credential which can be validated, recognised, and shared on social media platforms.

For Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer, students should have experience working with and/or knowledge of the following topics: 

• Substantial experience programming in any language 
• Intermediate-level programming experience in Python or willingness to learn 
• Intermediate-level programming experience in C++ or willingness to learn (including knowledge of memory allocation, classes, and references) 
• Basic linear algebra 
• Calculus (derivatives and integrals) 
• Probability and statistics (mean, variance, and probability distributions) 
• Basic physics (basic mechanics including knowledge of kinematics, dynamics, and torque)