National Aerospace University «Kharkiv Aviation Institute»

Educational Program “Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles”

Educational Program "Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles" focuses on creating "digital pilots" for vehicles changing the rules of logistics, defense, and exploration. Today, an engineer in this field is an Autonomous Systems Architect and AI-Hardware Integrator. You are the one who teaches a drone, ground rover, or underwater vehicle to see the world, recognize targets, and act independently. Your activity targets will be strike and reconnaissance UAVs, future delivery systems, and autonomous platforms where software and hardware merge into a unified intelligence.

The goal of study is to turn you into a "master of autonomy" capable of designing unmanned systems from airframe to neural network algorithm. We will teach you to build aerodynamically perfect fuselages, program flight controllers based on ArduPilot/PX4, and implement computer vision for GPS-denied navigation. This is the hottest mix of aviation, robotics, and Data Science. You will learn to create technologies that save lives and scale human capabilities, becoming a key player in the most dynamic industry of the 21st century.

Your superpower: In a world where decision-making speed is everything, you will possess Algorithmic Dominance and Rapid Prototyping — skills to build vehicles that act faster and more accurately than humans. Your professional arsenal will include:

- Unmanned Platform Design: designing airframes, frames, and power systems for long-endurance missions.

- AI & Edge Computing: running neural networks directly onboard UAVs for real-time object recognition.

- Swarm Intelligence: developing swarm interaction algorithms where dozens of vehicles operate as a single unit.

- Electronic Warfare Resilience: designing protected communication channels and jam-resistant navigation systems.

Our graduates are lead developers at Brave1 startups, system architects at global companies (such as Skydio or DJI), autonomous logistics experts, and creators of new standards for robotic systems, where the ability to "give a machine a mind" is highly valued.

Objects of professional activity for bachelor's graduates are aerial, ground, and aquatic unmanned vehicles; automatic control systems; autonomous navigation software, and remote monitoring and data transmission technologies.


Field of study: G Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction

Specialty: G12 Aviation and Aerospace Technology

Educational Program: Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles

Competitive offer: Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles

Accreditation Certificate: Educational program introduced in 2025. Extended certificate for specialty 134: UD №21001693 issued on February 20, 2018, valid until July 01, 2026.

Faculty: Faculty of Aircraft Engineering

Graduating Department: Department of Information Technologies for Design (105)

Part-time study form available: no

Training of foreign citizens available: yes