The Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) Lab focuses on controlling multiple autonomous vehicles in real time. The facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art motion capture system, which provides GPS data with sub-millimeter accuracy. It also contains a handful of different quadrotor UAVs and ground robots. The lab provides an excellent educational and research environment for students to design, implement, and test autonomous system planning and control algorithms.

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