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⬢// RESEARCH CENTER

Center for Autonomous Systems

Robots and drones that perceive, plan and act reliably in the real world.

90+Papers
16Researchers
3Robot fleets
01 / OVERVIEW

About the center

This center advances autonomy across ground, aerial and manipulation robots — closing the gap between simulation and the messy real world.

We partner with the Robotics and Drone labs to test at hardware scale.

// FOCUS AREAS
  • Perception & SLAM
  • Motion planning
  • Sim-to-real transfer
  • Multi-robot coordination
  • Safe autonomy
02 / PEOPLE

Research leadership

HF

Dr. Hannah Fischer

Director
DR

Dr. Diego Ramos

Principal Investigator
YS

Dr. Yuki Sato

Research Fellow
03 / PROJECTS

Flagship projects

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Terrain autonomy

Legged robots in unstructured environments.

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Drone swarms

Coordinated multi-agent aerial systems.

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Dexterous manipulation

Learning fine manipulation skills.

04 / PUBLICATIONS

Selected publications

Sim-to-Real Transfer for Legged Locomotion
Fischer, SatoCoRL 2025
204cites
Coordinated Drone Swarms in GPS-Denied Spaces
Ramos, FischerICRA 2025
121cites
Safe Reinforcement Learning for Manipulation
Sato, FischerRSS 2025
88cites
05 / RELATED

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// AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

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