Center for Autonomy, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The Center for Autonomy at UT Austin, part of the Oden Institute, conducts defense-funded research on autonomous systems and AI. Research focuses on enabling robots to learn autonomous navigation through human demonstration and imitation learning.
Notable achievements
APPL paradigm for non-expert robot training; autonomous vehicle navigation learning from human demonstration
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Learning passive variable impedance skills for contact-rich tasks via conservative extended dynamical systems
Pingyun Nie, Jiexin Zhang, Tianxiang Jiang +4 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
A digital twin-empowered resilient path-following approach for non-holonomic autonomous vehicles under DoS attacks
Hunain Kaisar, Muhammad Rehan, Ijaz Ahmed +1 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
DynaFLIP: Rethinking Robotics Perception via Tri-Modal-Dynamics Guided Representation
Jusuk Lee, Seungjae Lee, Jonghun Shin +6 more
2026
MIND: Multi-Scale Intent Diffusion for Text-Driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang +4 more
2026
Human-as-Humanoid: Enabling Zero-Shot Humanoid Learning from Ego-Exo Human Videos with Human-Aligned Embodiments
Xiaopeng Lin, Ruoqi Yang, Shijie Lian +14 more
2026
Robustness of Robotic Manipulation: Foundations and Frontiers
Yifei Dong, Zhanyi Sun, Lujie Yang +5 more
2026