The August Open Garage Talk, Designing to the Limits: Algorithms for Peak Performance is available here. CARS Co-Director Mykel Kochenderfer and Tim Wheeler, eVTOL software engineer, authors of Algorithms for Optimization , joined us for a moderated discussion with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google's self-driving car team, discussing how modern design approaches shape what move us.
Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems present a major paradigm shift in modern mobility and a unique opportunity to alleviate many of our transportation woes. In our Sept webinar, Ramon Iglesias, Ph.D. candidate with Marco Pavone's lab will presented a queuing network approach to the problem of routing, re-balancing, and charging a fleet of self-driving vehicles within an AMoD system. View the webinar here.
Recordings from CARS Co-Directors, affiliated researchers and students who presented at the Nov 2019 CARS Annual Meeting are available here. The Annual Meeting brings together CARS affiliates, affiliated faculty, researchers and students for our annual research symposium. The agenda from the annual meeting can be viewed here.
Karen Leung Ph.D. candidate with Prof. Marco Pavone's Autonomous Systems Lab presented her research on using backward reachability analysis to construct a minimally-interventional safety controller operating within an autonomous vehicle control stack with the role of ensuring collision-free interaction with a human-driven counterpart. View the webinar here.
John Subosits, Ph.D. candidate with the Dynamic Design Lab presented his research at our first webinar of 2020. Subosits' work includes modeling the dynamics of vehicles operating at the limits of friction and trajectory optimization.
Thank you to all the affiliates who participated in the CARS Automotive and Mobility Career Night on Oct 3. Resumes from students who registered for the CARS career night are now available in the Resume Book, a downloadable pdf file. Please email Adele Tanaka at adelet@stanford.edu if you have problems accessing the file. View the CARS 2020 Resume Book here.
Former CARS Fellow Changliu Liu led a hands-on workshop in early June on NeuralVerification.jl. We are in the process of developing an online course with the workshop content and have the introduction for an early sneak peek available here. Additional content will be available soon including lectures and work-group videos. Link.
CARS Co-director Marco Pavone has been awarded the Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation which acknowledges the outstanding accomplishments and exceptional potential of early-career researchers in robotics.
CARS co-director, Mykel Kochender and Tim Wheeler's book on Algorithms for Optimization is available here. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms. The text provides concrete implementations in the Julia programming language.
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to two founders of the Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time (SCPNT), Brad Parkinson and James Spilker along with Hugo FrueHauf and Richard Schwartz for their work on the Global Positioning System (GPS). The QEPrize celebrates the global impact of engineering innovation on humanity.
