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Safety-Critical Autonomy, Learning, and Engineering (SCALE) Lab

At SCALE Lab, we develop safe and trustworthy autonomous systems across multiple layers—from perception and learning to decision-making, planning, control, and multi-robot coordination.

We combine learning-based methods with control-theoretic guarantees so robots can adapt to uncertainty while maintaining safety. Our work connects rigorous theory with practical robotic systems.

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News

Aug. 2026 OU I joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University as an Assistant Professor.
Jul. 2026 T-ASE “AMBUSH: Collaborative Capture in Complex Environments with Neural Acceleration” accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
Jun. 2025 IROS “Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions” accepted to IROS 2025.
Feb. 2025 L4DC “Multi-Constraint Safe Reinforcement Learning via Closed-Form Solution for Log-Sum-Exp Approximation of Control Barrier Functions” accepted to L4DC 2025.
Mar. 2024 ICRA “Sensor-based Multi-Robot Search and Coverage with Spatial Separation in Unstructured Environments” presented at ICRA 2024.