Welcome to ECE484: Principles of Safe Autonomy, Fall 2026 edition.

In this class, you will dive into algorithms for building autonomous systems (e.g., path planning, particle filtering, lane detection, and safety verification), play with cool software tools (e.g., ROS, Gazebo, OpenAI gym), and get to deploy your code on a real car!

The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:00am-12:20pm in ECEB 1015.

Instructor: Prof. Huan Zhang and Prof. Sayan Mitra (Online section)

Content contributors: Abhishek Pai, Daniel Zhuang, John Pohovey, Yan Miao, Hanna Chen, Fatemeh Cheraghi, Hyoungju Lim, Haonan Chen, Will Chen, James Menezes, Jai Anchalia, Alex Yuan, Sidharth Anand, Tanvi Kulkarni, Karteek Gandiboyina, Praveen Natarajan, Hongyi Li, Ye-Ji Mun, Katherine Braught, Tianchen Ji, Pranav Sriram, Qichao Gao, Aamir Hasan, Minghao Jiang, Pulkit Katdare, Yangge Li, Ted Liu, Hebron Taylor

Amey Gavale, Zillur Rahman

Student content contributers:

Harish Kumar Balaji, Vikram Raj Nagoor Kani, Manan Hitesh Maheshwari, Vikram Battalapalli, Don Lazatin, Cheng Zhu, Dhruv Agarwal, Aditya Pillai