Welcome to the DRIVE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University! We are affiliated with the Robotics Institute and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The DRIVE Lab performs research on behaviors, planning, control, and perception for autonomous vehicles. Its emphases include socially cooperative autonomous driving, safe control under uncertainty, high-performance driving for autonomous racing, and adaptation to dynamic environments.

News

September 15, 2026: One paper accepted in S2RCC Workshop at IROS 2026
August 10, 2026: One paper accepted in IEEE MLSP 2026
July 15, 2026: One paper accepted in CDC 2026
May 10, 2026: One paper accepted in ITSC 2026
February 1, 2026: Two papers accepted in ICRA 2026
January 21, 2026: One paper accepted in ACC 2026

November 24, 2025: Maitham successfully passed his Qualifying exam 🪅
August 20, 2025: Simin successfully defended her PhD thesis 🎉
July 15, 2025: Yiwei successfully defended her PhD thesis 🎊
July 22, 2025: Yogita successfully presented her MS work 🪅
July 21, 2025: One paper accepted in Humanoids 2025
July 1, 2025: One paper accepted in ITSC 2025
June 15, 2025: Two papers accepted in IROS 2025
April 29, 2025: Mohammed successfully passed his Qualifying exam 🎉
April 14, 2025: Wenli successfully presented his MS work 🎊
January 27, 2025: Six papers accepted in ICRA 2025
January 16, 2025: One paper accepted in ACC 2025

November 31, 2024: Juan successfully passed his Qualifying exam 🪅
July 24, 2024: Dvij successfully presented his MS work 🎉
June 1, 2024: One paper accepted in ECC 2024
April 24, 2024: Haoru successfully presented his MS work 🎊
April 10, 2024: Adam successfully defended his PhD thesis 🪅
January 31, 2024: Five papers accepted in ICRA 2024