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Tsinghua eyes global diversity with hybrid courses By ZOU SHUO | China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-04 09:46 Share Tsinghua University [Photo/Xinhua]
Tsinghua University recently launched a Global Hybrid Classroom project, offering online courses for its students and others overseas.
Tsinghua is hosting the courses, and several international universities are participating. Students from those universities can obtain credits, Tsinghua said.
The project aims to provide students with a more international, diverse and high-quality learning experience and help them have a hand in shaping the global perspective, said Chen Wenguang, a professor in Tsinghua s Department of Computer Science and Technology.
Seventeen of the classes are open to the founding members of the Global MOOC (massive open online courses) Alliance, which include St Petersburg State University in Russia, Singapore s Nanyang Technological University and the Polytechn
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Credit: Malik Demirhan and Chinthaka Premachandra in Development of an Automated Camera-Based Drone Landing System, published in IEEE Access by IEEE Xplore, under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Initially earmarked for covert military operations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have since gained tremendous popularity, which has broadened the scope of their use. In fact, remote pilot drones have been largely replaced by autonomous drones for applications in various fields. One such application is their usage in rescue missions following a natural or man-made disaster. However, this often requires the drones to be able to land safely on uneven terrain which can be very difficult to execute.