Autonomous Systems Laboratory
Founded in 2003 by Professor Gabriel Elkaim at UC Santa Cruz, the Autonomous Systems Lab specializes in guidance, navigation, and control for autonomous systems. The lab focuses on reducing costs through open-source development of complete autonomous systems and onboard sensors with publicly available code repositories.
Notable achievements
Open-source autonomous systems development, sensor fusion research
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Integrating computer vision and Kalman filter in an assistive system for visually impaired individuals to predict hand-object interaction
Amirmohammad Barsalani, Arman Mardani, Hamidreza Daniali
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
I-DL-ACO: Double layer ant colony path planning with sigmoid scheduling and continuous angle punishment
Xianyang Zeng, Chang Liu, Jinwu Tong +3 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Robotic inspection of vertical surfaces in GNSS-denied environments
Arianna Rana, Antonio Petitti, Annalisa Milella
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Integrated Exploration-Aware UAV Route Optimization and Path Planning
Jimin Choi, Grant Stagg, Cameron K. Peterson +1 more
2026
Tactile-Proprioceptive Sensor Fusion for Contact Wrench Estimation in Whole-Body Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Junha Min, Junghyeon Ma, Jiwung Kwon +3 more
2026
Accelerating Robot Path Planning via Connectivity-Preserving Region Proposal Network
Zhanzheng Ma, Cancan Zhao, Shuai Zhang +1 more
2026