Project Work in Artificial Intelligence and Automation, 7.5 credits

Project Work in Artificial Intelligence and Automation course is aimed to increase the knowledge and ability of conducting an automation project using artificial intelligent techniques through practice. This is carried out by taking a practical small project usually linked to a real process/operation/system in an enterprise. It is all about developing an automation solution for a given industrial system either by knowing the processes and other real data or just by assuming and generalizing the input information. Your suggested solution usually should include some simulation and/or some coding containing AI/ML algorithms and techniques. The purpose is to learn how to improve the efficiency of a system or a process performance using AI through selection of methods, development, and prototype implementation. There might be some available projects discussed in the first session of the course and each project can be accomplished by a small group of 2,3 students working together. To do the projects, students sometimes should rely on their own assumptions since the real input data could be vague or not existing. As mentioned, Simulation tools with AI/ML algorithms, Python and its libraries and so on could be utilized.