The Chandra Robot Δutonomy Lab, or CRΔL, is led by Professor Rohan Chandra. CRΔL focuses on building robots that navigate among humans, like humans.

Dr. Chandra completed a postdoc at UT Austin from 2022 to 2024, advised by Dr. Joydeep Biswas and Dr. Peter Stone. Dr. Chandra obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in 2018 and 2022 from the GAMMA Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park advised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha. His doctoral thesis focused on autonomous driving in dense, heterogeneous, and unstructured traffic environments.

CRΔL    CRΔL    rohanchandra@virginia.edu
CRΔL is hiring 1-2 Ph.D. students.

Jan 2025  Decentralized Safe and Scalable Multi-Agent Control under Limited Actuation accepted to ICRA 2025!
Jan 2025  Prof. Chandra received the FY25 Research Interest Group award to organize the 1st Robotics + X Symposium at UVA.
Jan 2025  Prof. Chandra will serve as Area Chair at The Second Reinforcement Learning Conference.
Jun 2024  Dr. Chandra received the 2023 Drones Young Investigator Award!
Feb 2024  Dr. Chandra was appointed as Field Editor, "Encyclopedia of GIS", Springer, August 2026!
Feb 2024  Dr. Chandra was appointed as Guest Editor, MDPI Drones, Special Issue on Advances in Perception and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles!
Jan 2024  Hybrid Social Navigation accepted to ICRA 2024!
Jan 2024  DO-ICBF paper accepted to ACC 2024 (oral)!
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