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research-oriented version of these projects available to the academic community.
The Nova project (https://nova-utd.github.io/) delivers a ROS-based modular approach that enables all of the most critical fundamental needs of an autonomous driving platform. We use this testbed as a proving grounds for our work on security of cyber-physical systems. Our research in security quantifies the potentially damaging effect an attacker can have on a system.
Justin Ruths, PhD is an associate professor with appointments in Mechanical Engineering at the Erik Jonsson School at the University of Texas at Dallas. He joined UTD in 2016 after spending five years as an assistant professor and part of the founding faculty at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Since 2019, Dr. Ruths' undergraduate Nova team has grown to over 20 students and focuses on building and maintaining an autonomous vehicle and self-driving software stack.