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🚗  Autonomous Vehicles & Navigation Lab

Perception, planning, and control for autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. Certification methods for safety-critical autonomy in unstructured environments.

Breakthrough · 1,000-Qubit Coherence AchievedCareers · 12 Postdoc Positions OpenAward · Best Paper IEEE S&P 2025Partnership · CERN CollaborationEvent · AI Safety Summit June 2025Grant · $18M NSF Award Green ComputingPublication · Nature Photonics All-Optical NNBreakthrough · 1,000-Qubit Coherence AchievedCareers · 12 Postdoc Positions OpenAward · Best Paper IEEE S&P 2025Partnership · CERN CollaborationEvent · AI Safety Summit June 2025Grant · $18M NSF Award Green ComputingPublication · Nature Photonics All-Optical NN

Mission & Focus

About the Laboratory

Perception, planning, and control for autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. Certification methods for safety-critical autonomy in unstructured environments.

Active Projects

Current Research

Occupancy World Models
Active · 2025
Multi-Agent Planning
Active · 2025
Formal Safety Certificates
Active · 2025
Urban Scene Understanding
Active · 2025

Research Team

Lab Members

K
Dr. Kenji Yamamoto
Lab Director
RS
Dr. Senior Researcher
Research Scientist
PD
Dr. Postdoc Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher
P1
PhD Candidate Alpha
PhD Student
P2
PhD Candidate Beta
PhD Student
RA
Research Assistant
MSc Student

Recent Publications

Selected Papers

Occupancy World Models: A Comprehensive Study
Lead Author et al. · Top Venue 2025  ★ Best Paper
Multi-Agent Planning: Theory & Empirical Evaluation
Research Team · Flagship Journal 2025
Foundations of AVN: Survey and New Directions
Lab Members · Survey Paper 2024
Formal Safety Certificates: Experimental Results
Collaborative Work · Conference 2024
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Lab Information
AbbreviationAVN
DirectorDr. Kenji Yamamoto
InstituteRobotics
Founded2012
Members14
Research Output
Publications87
Citations4,200+
Patents12
Active Grants5
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