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epsrc centre for doctoral training in autonomous intelligent machines and systems university of oxford skip to main content menu aims engineering science home people academics staff students study study here internships epsrc studentships industry funded studentships research our research mini projects industrial partners seminar series publications alumni news blog posts contact engineering science epsrc centre for doctoral training in autonomous intelligent machines and systems university of oxford epsrc centre for doctoral training in autonomous intelligent machines and systems about us autonomous systems powered by artificial intelligence will have a transformative impact on economy industry and society as a whole our mission is to train cohorts with both theoretical practical and systems skills in autonomous systems comprising machine learning robotics sensor systems and verification and a deep understanding of the cross disciplinary requirements of these domains industrial partnerships have been and will continue to be at the heart of aims shaping its training and ensuring the delivery of oxford s world leading research in autonomous systems to a wide variety of sectors including smart health transport finance tracking of animals energy and extreme environments during your time as a cdt student there are opportunities to take up internships outreach activities personal development team work and collaboration with other cdts in similar areas our research the university of oxford has a world class reputation in the underpinning technologies of aims graduates have gone on to become entrepreneurs taking leading roles in industry and commerce or continued their careers in academia recognising the strength of our research and teaching in this area and the potential for future breakthroughs the departments of engineering science and computer science were awarded the centre for doctoral training cdt which provides the focus for the development of these new technologies find out more key skills areas what s holding up the real world impact of ai today too often innovation is overly focussed on new component algorithms particularly those from machine learning to realise impact on the world however such algorithms must be integrated with complete autonomous systems in which there are far too few trained experts aims imparts unified training in four important and intimately connected components of such systems machine learning as a unifying core robotics vision cyber physical systems e g sensor networks and control verification as examples of autonomous systems aims aims at building systems to impact upon sustainable urban development transport financial services and smart infrastructure extreme and challenging environments space robots and satellite data and smart health cancer diagnosis aims students are also trained explicitly in entrepreneurship responsible research and innovation management of intellectual property presentation scientific writing and public engagement robotics and vision machine learning control verification cyber physical systems autonomous systems in the real world may need to identify and interpret complex scenes from moving vehicles to human activity for example robotic systems require such capabilities so that they can navigate in unknown environments and augmented reality systems require methods for scene perception and object identification aims will offer training in visual geometry deep learning perception generative models visual tracking segmentation path planning visual navigation robot learning locomotion and motion planning domains of focus include urban off road driving hazardous environments smart infrastructure space robots and healthcare aims recognises the increasing centrality of machine learning to autonomous systems the data driven approach offered by modern machine learning models has complemented the growth of datasets and computing power particularly gpus which has resulted in machine learning transforming fields such as computer vision and robotics in the years since aims s foundation in 2014 as such aims now places machine learning as the hub of its training programme within machine learning aims offers courses covering estimation inference signal processing supervised unsupervised learning learning theory bayesian non parametrics graphical models ensemble learning neural networks and back propagation deep learning representative models will include alexnet vgg vd resnet densenet machine learning in production optimisation automatic differentiation reinforcement learning autonomous systems safety and governance and much more focal applications are found in medical smart city and space data domains autonomous systems must be safe and dependable for example how do we ensure that the embedded software controller of the self driving car does not crash or that the implantable blood glucose monitor correctly identifies an abnormal range and raises an alarm verification via model checking provides automated methods to establish that given requirements are satisfied but is challenged by the need to consider the complex interplay of discrete continuous and probabilistic dynamics training will be given in modern control deep reinforcement learning for process control systems verification adversarial inputs symbolic controller abstraction techniques computational game theory and multi agent planning focal domains will include finance factory automation critical infrastructure and healthcare many applications demand the seamless connection of intelligent devices in order to offer sensing monitoring and actuating capabilities these will form cyber physical systems currently cyber physical systems face key technical barriers including providing context awareness e g location problematic in indoor environments overcoming the unreliability of sensors and actuators often lacking calibration quality estimation energy management and fault detection capabilities improving security and privacy concerns both in peer to peer ad hoc networks and cellular networks aims offers training in sensor and actuator networks topology control cross modality learning privacy and security lightweight authentication and key management wireless network security anti jamming jamming resistance passive active threat models verification of security systems differential privacy and hands on embedded systems programming key applications include the smart city critical infrastructure and sensitive healthcare data what is a cdt what is a cdt download annual review our annual review highlights the achievements of our staff and students during the preceding academic year take a look through the links below to get a feel for the breadth of activities taking place here at the cdt 2014 15 download 2015 16 download 2016 17 download 2017 18 download 2018 19 download 2019 20 download 2020 21 download 2021 22 download 2022 23 download 2023 24 download 2024 25 download explore news drag news events view all news 23 jun 2026 ai for good hackathon 09 jun 2026 thinking about thinking fellow 05 mar 2026 oxford engineering students power dark blue varsity victories 02 feb 2026 john belcher heath kellogg student joins ourfc tour to australia 15 jan 2026 oishi deb featured in brazilian tv documentary digital minds era of ai 03 dec 2025 fully funded 4 year doctoral studentship joint with the oxford martin ai governance initiative and the epsrc cdt in autonomous intelligent machines systems aims 27 nov 2025 joint with lightspeed and the epsrc cdt in autonomous intelligent machines systems aims 30 oct 2025 ai for good talk by kelsey doerksen study support for schools and young people open days undergraduate course postgraduate courses research studentships our research research listing institute of biomedical engineering oxford e research centre oxford man institute oxford robotics institute oxford thermofluids institute the podium institute 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