Category: News
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F1/10 racing demo for the ECE External Advisory Board
Industry leaders visited the ECE department to witness the variety of work happening here. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially Carson Sobolewski and Lorant Domokos who led the demonstration. Some videos and photos from the event:
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First batch of students finishes the CURE racing course
Congratulations to the nine freshmen participants: Ramsey Makan, Jonas Dickens, Tyler Ruble, Christopher Oeltjen, Carter Amaba, Aditya Gandhi, Emilia Delaune, Ethan Krol, and Giancarlo Vidal! And a big thank you to the mentors: Ao Wang, Sam Jhong, Lorant Domokos, and Carson Sobolewski. More information on this CURE course is here.
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Foundation world models: new preprint online
Our paper develops training-free world models based on foundation models with interpretable latent states. Update: presented at the probabilistic robotics workshop at ICRA’24. Citation:
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TEA Lab moves to Malachowsky Hall
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Now found in Malachowsky 4100, with a brand new racing track coming soon!
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Verifying high-dimensional controllers: new preprint online
Our new draft verifies image-based controllers by approximating them with several low-dimensional ones. Citation: Yuang Geng, Souradeep Dutta, Ivan Ruchkin. Bridging Dimensions: Confident Reachability for High-Dimensional Controllers [arxiv]. Preprint, in submission.
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Ivan participates in a panel on dependable space autonomy
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Resolving Barriers to Infusion: Fielding Dependable Autonomous Space Systems at AIAA ASCEND 2023.
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How safe am I given what I see? New preprint online
Update: a poster was presented at UF AI Days 2023. This paper develops safety chance prediction for image-controlled autonomous systems with calibration guarantees. Citation: Zhenjiang Mao, Carson Sobolewski, Ivan Ruchkin. How Safe Am I Given What I See? Calibrated Prediction of Safety Chances for Image-Controlled Autonomy [arxiv]. Preprint, in submission.
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Invited talk at the DACPS workshop & ETH Autonomy Talks
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Update 1: an extended version of this talk was given at a UF MAE Affiliate Seminar. The recording can be found here (UF login required). Update 2: another version of this walk was given at the ETH Autonomy Talks (video). Update 3: yet another version of this talks was given as a CNEL Seminar. The…
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TEA Lab hosts K-12 students for the Robotics-AIoT Visit Day
On June 15, 2023, the UF ECE Department hosted ~30 school students from the Westwood Middle School and Buchholz High School for a day visit at the Robotics, AI, and IoT research laboratories for educational presentations, research demonstrations, and mentoring discussions. It was a lot of fun for everyone! Kudos to the other participating labs:…