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Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ25053861
Source-derived summary

Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL) is a laboratory researching advanced algorithms and analytical methods for the design of robust decision making systems

at Stanford University. It operates within the Stanford Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Drone research

SISL has conducted research in autonomous anti-collision technologies for drones. These efforts include developing software to increase drone reaction times when flying in crowded spaces, such as urban areas. Research was done in accordance with NASA's UAS Traffic Management (UTM) project.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 78-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014-01. The account is most persuasive where Stanford, Intelligent and Systems can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.