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University of Pennsylvania

Perception, planning and control for safe autonomous systems

Building the tools and theoretical foundations necessary to scale the design and balance performance and safety of safe-autonomous systems.

Rahul Mangharam

University of Pennsylvania

Associate Professor

Ongoing Research

  • Game-theoretic Motion Planning in Objective Space
  • Arithmetical Graph Embeddings
  • Real-to-Sim-to-Real Transfer via Gradient-free Optimization

Selected Publications

  • TUNERCAR: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous Racing, ICRA 2020
  • Formulazero: Distributionally robust online adaptation via offline population synthesis, ICML 2020
  • Combinatorial and Parametric Gradient-Free Optimization for Cyber-Physical System Design, ICCPS 2022, DESTION
  • Autonomous vehicles on the edge: A survey on autonomous vehicle racing, IEEE OJ-ITS, 2022