Courses taught by Professor Ziran Wang at Purdue University.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) bring together transportation engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science to improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of transportation. This course introduces the fundamental concepts, technologies, and applications of ITS, including connected and automated vehicles, vehicle-to-everything communications, electric vehicles, smart infrastructure, the Internet of Things, machine learning and big data, and traffic simulation. Students explore these topics through assignments and an independent research project.
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are a new frontier for computational systems that transform the way people interact with engineered systems, which benefit applications in fields like transportation, aerospace, manufacturing, and health care. This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical foundations of CPS, with an emphasis on their usages in connected and automated vehicles (CAV). Upon finishing the course, students are expected to obtain the basic knowledge of CPS and CAV, and know how to develop a model-based autonomous system to be applied to the transportation system.