Official launch of CTRL

It's official!!!

We are officially launching the Control & Trustworthy Robotics Lab (CTRL) at the University of Washington! CTRL will be directed by Assistant Professor Karen Leung who is graciously supported by the Juris Vagners and Linda Christianson Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Aeronautics & Astronautics. CTRL will reside in the Aerospace & Engineering Research Building (AERB) right next to Guggenheim Hall.

CTRL will also be subsuming the Autonomous Flight Systems Lab (AFSL) which focuses on guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) technologies relevant to autonomous vehicles and their payload. The AFSL has a strong focus on applied research and real-world deployment where members often perform flight tests at Carnation Farm. See the AFSL website to learn more about their past and current projects.

CTRL will explore research topics related to the safe, intelligent, and trustworthy robotics systems, especially those that interact with humans and operate in safety-critical settings. We are interested in developing decision-making and control algorithms that can adapt to changing, uncertain, and unseen environments. Our aim is to develop trustworthy autonomous robotic systems by designing robot algorithms that induce safe and intuitive behaviors that humans can interpret and thereby induce fluent human-robot interactions. Check out our research page to find out more about the types of topics we work on, and check out our contact page to find out how you can get involved with the lab.

We already have some students working in the CTRL, so check out our People page to find out more.

Related news