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 # List of Dissertation Topics
 
+The new autonomous Vehicles development group are looking for a number of highly skilled and motivated final year students to work on a number of high profile research topics. Please read the list of topics below and, if you are interested email m.tyers@coventry.ac.uk attaching your CV and explaining how you would go about carrying out the work.
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+## Overview
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 Below are a list of potential dissertation topics. These are not for the faint-hearted! Each will require a high level of dedication but will enable you to become an expert in a given field and, if successful you will be invited to be part of the new Autonomous Vehicles development team called **AI Coventry**.
 
+### Learn – Develop – Win
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+Coventry University is fully committed to the training and development of the next generation of autonomous vehicle engineers. This is a fiercely competitive environment and, to help stimulate our students to give their best, we enter them into some of the toughest competitions available to Universities.
+The best way to learn is to be placed in a competitive environment and, in all the dissertation topics, this is what will happen. This is the Coventry University Way...
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+### Formula Student – AI
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+The IMechE have launched an Autonomous Racing Car competition that runs alongside the main Formula Student event.  This runs at the Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit in the week after the British Grand Prix. This year (2019) we won all the autonomous races to place 2nd overall. All the autonomous car research on the following pages is designed to prepare for next year's competition and, if you take on one of these research challenges (and succeed) you will be invited to be part of next year's team and compete at Silverstone.
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+### WRSC
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+Coventry University also competes in several autonomous sailing boat competitions, including the European RoboBoat challenge (held in the Baltic in May) and the global WRSC (held in China this year). Next year we also plan on entering the SailBot competition in the USA!
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+### How to Get Involved
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+We are looking for students to get involved in all these competitions. If you are interested you should choose one of these dissertation topics. If you do this and succeed you will be eligible to be part of the team. If you are interested, email me (m.tyers@coventry.ac.uk) and let me know which project(s) you are interested in working on.
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 ## Differential GPS
 
 Standard GPS has inherent inaccuracies, typically +-80cm. DGPS is a new type of system to provide positional corrections to GPS signals and thereby achieve accuracies of +-2cm. Developing such a system is absolutely critical to the success of all forms of autonomous vehicles.