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)
MASPA: An efficient strategy for path planning with a tethered marsupial robotics system
Jesús Capitán, José M. Díaz-Báñez, Miguel A. Pérez-Cutiño +2 more
Expert Systems with Applications · 2026
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
Path planning of mobile robots based on safety in real-time dynamic environments
Chongyang Lv, Han Wang, Shuang Wang +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Quantum-inspired SLAM-based localization and neural-symbolic path planning for high-precision navigation of tea-picking robots in vertical gardens
Jingyan Xiang, Wenxia Bao, Nian Wang +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Energy-efficient hierarchical motion planner for automated parking based on pseudospectral methods
Yiqun Li, Zong Chen, Siyuan Qiao +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Vision-driven collaborative path planning for autonomous multi-UAV swarms in maritime and coastal environments using deep reinforcement learning
Tariq Ali, Umar Draz, Imran Razzak +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026