Seminar Communicating Autonomous Vehicles 2026w [HS 2026w]

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

Knowledge from the lecture “Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten” is prerequisite knowledge. The lecture is designed to be taken in parallel to this (or any other) seminar.

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.

All slides will be presented in a weekly on-campus meeting.

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!

Enrollment (limited places)

Please note that places in this course are limited.

If you are planning to take the course, please indicate your interest by using the “enrollment” feature in OPAL to add your name to the list, but note that this does not guarantee you a place in the course.

Places will be allocated to students attending the first session on the first day of class, subject to available capacity.

Grading

If you are taking this seminar as part of INF-25-Ba-WIA (or similar), be sure to enrol in both the lecture “Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten” and this seminar (or any other one offered for the module). Grades for the module will be based solely on the grade of the seminar, but contents of the lecture are prerequisite knowledge.

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

If you want to get a grade, please pre-register this 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

For timeline information, see both the section “In a nutshell” above and the slide deck “Organization” below. In the first week, we will be assigning topics.

Slides

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