PhD candidate Autonomous Driving (f/m/x)

at  BMW

PHD AT THE BMW GROUP.

Bridging the gap between your doctoral studies and the kind of career challenge you’re looking for isn’t always easy. That’s why our ProMotion PhD programme gives you the opportunity to apply your passion and scientific expertise to very real challenges that could shape the future of mobility. If selected, you’ll have the chance to really develop your own future career path with us through your practice-related thesis, promote your chosen specialty from within – and position yourself to secure the career you’ve always wanted.
We, the BMW Group, offer you an interesting and varied Ph.D. program in the area of autonomous driving. Level 2 (L2) autonomous driving functions have reached a high level of maturity in simpler situations such as parking, or driving on highways and back roads, where the interaction of the driver with the external environment is minimal. Urban scenarios require more numerous and more complex interactions with the surroundings. In this setting, for safe and supporting autonomous driving functions, these must be enabled adaptively to both the awareness of the driver and the current situation, that is, to the degree to which the “driver is in the loop” (name of the concept in the scientific literature).
The goal of this doctoral thesis is to analyze and understand the human behavior of the driver in various urban situations and use this knowledge for a concrete and applicable definition of the awareness of the driver of the current situation (“Driver in the Loop”).

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