July, 2012 - MIT - A Cloud-Assisted Design for Autonomous Driving
This paper presents Carcel, a cloud based system for Autonomous Driving.  Carcel enables the cloud to access to sensor data from autonomous vehicles as well as the roadside infrastructure.

2008 - MIT - A Perception-Driven Autonomous Urban Vehicle
This paper describes the architecture and implementation of an autonomous passenger vehicle designed to navigate using locally perceive information in preference to potentially inaccurate or incomplete map data.