The Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab is part of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering . We seek to design autonomous and robotic systems that operate with guaranteed safety and performance in new settings and environments. In short-term, our research emphasis is on bridging machine learning with classical, model-based planning and control methods to achieve this endeavor.
We are looking for undergraduate and graduate students to join our research group. If you are interested in robotics, control, and/or machine learning, consider joining us!
News
[January 2023] Three papers from SIA Lab have been accepted to ICRA 2023. Congratulations, Albert, Javier, and Ken!
[January 2023] Our lab is offering a new course on learning and control for safety-critical robotic systems.
[December 2022] Javier has passed his screening exam. Congratulations, Javier!
[November 2022] New paper on finding failure cases for vision-based controller using reachability analysis is out on arXiv.
[October 2022] New paper on maintaining and updating safety in human-robot interaction scenarios, despite incorrect human prediction models.
[September 2022] New paper on providing safety guarantees for DeepReach. The scalability of DeepReach along with the proposed verification algorithm allows us to compute high-confidence safe sets for high-dimensional systems.
[September 2022] New paper on quickly updating safety assurances for an autonomous system online as the system or the environment factors change.
[August 2022] Four new undergraudate students have joined our lab through the CURVE program. Welcome Kyle, Jay, Vishnu, and Stan!