Fall 2026 - ECE 484

Principles of Safe Autonomy

Dive into the full autonomy stack - perception, localization, planning, control, and safety verification, then bring it to life with ROS, OpenCV, and PX4 as you deploy your work on aerial and ground vehicles.

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Course at a glance

Meetings

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00am-12:20pm - ECEB 1015

Fridays, 1 hour lab ECEB 5072

Instructors

Prof. Huan Zhang and Prof. Sayan Mitra (Online section)

Team

Meet the faculty, TAs, and lab support.

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Platforms

GEM vehicle, F1-tenth, drones, and simulated fleets

Lectures

Weekly topics, slides, and milestones.

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Projects

Pick a track and build something ambitious.

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Contributors

Content contributors: Abhishek Pai, Daniel Zhuang, John Pohovey, Yan Miao, Hanna Chen, Fatemeh Cheraghi, Hyoungju Lim, Haonan Chen, Will Chen, James Menezes, Jai Anchalia, Alex Yuan, Sidharth Anand, Tanvi Kulkarni, Karteek Gandiboyina, Praveen Natarajan, Hongyi Li, Ye-Ji Mun, Katherine Braught, Tianchen Ji, Pranav Sriram, Qichao Gao, Aamir Hasan, Minghao Jiang, Pulkit Katdare, Yangge Li, Ted Liu, Hebron Taylor, JD Lee, Amey Gavale, Zillur Rahman