About ARIA Systems Group

We are a group of robot enthusiasts in the Departments of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder set on developing Assured, Reliable, and Interactive Autonomous (ARIA) systems. We envision a world where autonomous systems operate safely and effectively alongside humans and form trusting partnerships to improve the well-being of individuals and societies. This vision drives our research in developing theoretical foundations and computational frameworks that enable reliable and intelligent autonomy. We view this as an art, a creative process that requires deep technical understandings of the fields that contribute to robotics.

The main theme of our work is safety and soundness, and the emphasis is on safe autonomy through correct-by-construction algorithmic approaches. Our research builds on knowledge developed in control theory, formal methods, statistical reasoning, machine learning & AI and seeks to address real-world challenges in robotics and safety-critical systems.

Group News

16 Jan 2025

Our work on "Learning-Based Shielding for Safe Autonomy under Unknown Dynamics" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC’25). Read the preprint here!

08 Jan 2025

Our work on "Formal Verification of Unknown Dynamical Systems via Gaussian Process Regression" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). Read the preprint here!

03 Jan 2025

Our work on "Kino-PAX: Highly Parallel Kinodynamic Sampling-based Planner" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Read the preprint here!

09 Dec 2024

Our work on "Error Bounds For Gaussian Process Regression Under Bounded Support Noise With Applications To Safety Certification" has been accepted for presentation at the The Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’25). Read the preprint here!

07 Dec 2024

ARIA will have a presence at CDC’24 in Dec. with 2 papers. Seek us out!

26 Oct 2024

Our work on "Efficient strategy synthesis for switched stochastic systems with distributional uncertainty" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (NAHS). Read the preprint here!

26 Jun 2024

Justin successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats, Dr. Kottinger!