TEA Lab: Trustworthy Engineered Autonomy

Team

Current members

Blue Donkeycar, 1/16th scale
Red Donkeycar, 1/14th scale
Black F1/10 car, 1/10th scale
Ivan Ruchkin, Director
Yuang Geng, PhD student
Zhenjiang Mao, PhD student
Sam Jhong, MS student
Nathan Noronha, MS student
Chengxi Zhou, MS student
Adam McAleer, UG student
Lorant Domokos, UG student
Carson Sobolewski, UG student
Jake Baldauf, UG student

Alumni

  • Ao Wang, MS in ECE, 2023-2024, next position: PhD student at the University of Florida.
  • Andres Castrillon, UG in MechE, 2022-2024, next position: MS student at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • LiangLiang Sun, UG summer intern, 2023, next position: continuing at Shanghai University, then MS student at Northeastern University.
  • Jianing Yu, UG summer intern, 2023, next position: continuing at Shandong University.
  • Lillian Sullivan, UG in ECE, 2023, next position: continuing at UF.
  • Eric Chen, MS in ECE, 2022-2023, next position: continuing at UF.
  • Kang Gao, MS in ECE, 2022-2023, next position: PhD student at Michigan State University.

CURE course 2023 alumni:

  • Ramsey Makan, Jonas Dickens, Tyler Ruble, Christopher Oeltjen, Carter Amaba, Aditya Gandhi, Emilia Delaune, Ethan Krol, and Giancarlo Vidal. All continued to their sophomore year at UF.

Senior design projects:

  • Jerry Payne and David Herrera (next: Duke Energy), UG in ECE, Spring 2024, project: “State of Charge Estimation for Autonomous DonkeyCars”.
  • Joshua Nielsen, UG in ECE, Spring 2024, project: “Visual Dynamics Modeling for Autonomous RC Cars”.

Group Photos

TEA Lab at the demonstration of CURE course racing in Spring 2024.
TEA lab at the end of Spring 2023

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