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Driving is hard, but humans make it look easy. We're UT Dallas's applied autonomous driving project, and we're making driving look easier than ever.

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Latest posts

New Members and Goals! 23-24 11/15/23
Planning with cost maps 2/13/23
What's up with Nova? 2/2/23
New members (and goodbyes) 10/23/22
Why we like Nova (video) 8/27/22

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Overview

Nova is UT Dallas’s premier autonomous driving group, run by undergrads as part of the Applied Systems Lab.

We’re developing an open-source autonomous driving stack for researchers, and we aim to provide autonomous driving services to UTD in the long term.

Download the rough Navigator Annual Plan.
Download the rough Vehicle Annual Plan.

Our team at the UTD Homecoming Parade, February 2022

Our Team

Click on a member to learn more about them!

Justin Ruths

Justin Ruths
Professor
Team Advisor
jruths@utdallas.edu

Daniel Vayman

Daniel Vayman
CS Junior
Project Lead
daniel.vayman@
utdallas.edu

Neil Agrawal

Neil Agrawal
CS Junior
Developer

Stepan Antonyuk

Stepan Antonyuk
CS Sophomore
Developer

Ragib Arnab

Ragib Arnab
CS Senior
Developer

Ahmad Bajwa

Ahmad Bajwa
CS Senior
Developer

Anjana Bharadwaj

Anjana Bharadwaj
CS Junior
Developer

Meyli Colmenero

Meyli Colmenero
CE Junior
Vehicle Engineer

Kevin Ge

Kevin Ge
CS Junior
Developer

Abhinav Gummadi

Abhinav Gummadi
CE Freshman
Vehicle Engineer

Yuvraj Kashyap

Yuvraj Kashyap
CS Freshman
Vehicle Engineer

Vindhya Kaushal

Vindhya Kaushal
CS Sophomore
Developer

Fletcher Lauber

Fletcher Lauber
BA Sophomore
PR

Sasha Luich

Sasha Luich
ME Junior
Vehicle Engineer

Prateek Mishra

Prateek Mishra
CS Junior
Developer

Andy Nguyen

Andy Nguyen
CE Junior
Vehicle Engineer

Josh Pahman

Josh Pahman
SE Junior
Developer

Jai Peris

Jai Peris
EE Sophomore
Vehicle Engineer

Fernando Portillo

Fernando Portillo
CE Junior
Vehicle Engineer

Gueren Sanford

Gueren Sanford
CS Sophomore
Developer

Ayush Sharma

Ayush Sharma
CS Sophomore
Developer

Haneesh Tummalapalli

Haneesh Tummalapalli
CS Junior
Developer

Akhila Varanasi

Akhila Varanasi
EE Sophomore
Vehicle Engineer

Kyle Zeng

Kyle Zeng
CS Senior
Photographer

Demo 2, we did it! (Proof of concept)


Demo 1, our first drive

This video explains our hardware stack and software architecture. It also also includes a video demonstration at 4:39.