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CS 498 SAU - Principles of Safe Autonomy

Last offered Spring 2025

Official Description

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in computer science intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Section Description

Introduces techniques for building autonomous systems such as autonomous cars, delivery drones, and manufacturing robots, and techniques for performing their safety analysis. Covers key algorithms and approaches in perception, modeling, motion planning, control, and safety analysis, with a view towards understanding their basic assumptions and performance guarantees. Also provides exposure to some of the state-of-the-art software tools for control, simulation, and analysis. Students will get experience through labs, programming assignments, and they will perform hands-on laboratory work on the Polaris GEM autonomous vehicle platform. Course material is distilled from recent research papers; thus, there is no required textbook. Weekly in-person lab/discussion meeting in 200 S. Wacker Dr.

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Schedule and Instructors

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Principles of Safe AutonomySAU31596PKG41230 - 1345 F  ARR Illini Center Mohamed Ali Belabbas
Principles of Safe AutonomySAU31596PKG4 -    Mohamed Ali Belabbas