Welcome to UW ARC Lab! Our lab is tackling fundamental problems in the control of autonomous systems and cyber-physical systems by leveraging tools from control theory, convex optimization, machine learning, etc. Our research strives to build rigorous analytical frameworks and reliable control algorithms to enhance the safety and performance of autonomous and cyber-physical systems. video demo
News
- Sep 2022: ARC Lab received a new grant “The Future of Trucking: Pathways to Positive Societal Outcomes” from National Science Foundation.
- July 2022: ARC Lab received a new grant “Simulating Autonomous Agents and the Human-Autonomous Agent Interaction” from National Science Foundation. News from ME.
- May 2022: ARC Lab researcher William Dong was awarded the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Fellowship. The project is about building and controlling a modular aerial-terrestrial autonomous robot. News from ME.
- April 2021: UW was selected as one of the ten teams to participate in the SAE AutoDrive Challenge II Competition. We are excited to design and integrate our own autonomous vehicle system, based on a Chevrolet Bolt EUV vehicle, into a fully autonomous vehicle over the next four years. Dr. Glenn Bower and Prof. Xiangru Xu will be the faculty advisors of the Wisconsin Team. News from ME and news from SAE.
- Sep 2019: Our paper “Correctness Guarantees for the Composition of Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control” won the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award from IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. News from ME.