About

The Autonomous Intelligent Mobile Systems Lab (AIMSLab) conducts research in the broad areas of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems in the domain of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Robotics, including the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), tactile and industrial robotic systems. On the technical side, our research employs Multimodal sensor fusion, Wireless Networks (5G/6G, LTE, C-V2X, M2M, mmWave), Distributed Computing (Edge/Cloud), Reconfigurable Computing using Machine Learning and Optimization approaches. Our group also works on Video Streaming and Processing, AR/VR/Metaverse, Digital Twin, and Smart and Connected Health.









Lab Members

Current Students:

  • Predicting Human Depression with Hybrid Data Acquisition utilizing Physical Activity Sensing and Social Media Feeds
    MH Uddin, S Baidya
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.22779, 2025
    [PDF] | [View on GitHub]

  • Large Language Models in the IoT Ecosystem--A Survey on Security Challenges and Applications
    K Khatiwada, J Hopper, J Cheatham, A Joshi, S Baidya
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.17586, 2025
    [PDF] | [View on GitHub]

  • A Hierarchical Optimization Framework Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-Driven Bandwidth Allocation in 5G Teleoperation
    N Golmohammadi, MM Rayguru, S Baidya
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.15977, 2025
    [PDF] | [View on GitHub]





Current External Student Collaborators:

  • Yu-Jen Ku (PhD, ECE, UCSD)

  • Basar Kutukcu (PhD, ECE, UCSD)

  • Bryse Flowers (PhD, ECE, UCSD)












Active Research Areas

  • System Optimizations for Edge/Cloud Computing

  • Building Simulators for Autonomous Systems with Digital Twin

  • Multi-modal Sensor Fusion for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

  • Adaptive Robust and Efficient Computing and Communications for UAVs

  • Design Space Exploration for AI Applications on Embedded Systems

  • Adaptive 360 degree Video Streaming and AR/VR

  • Smart and Connected Healthcare IoT



    Some past and present projects are listed here: Projects





Projects

  • Collaborative Perception over Vehicular Edge Computing
    Developing efficient task partitioning algorithms and real-time multi-sensor fusion for improved collaborative vision in smart transportation systems. Features a prototype testbed with smart vehicles and edge computing nodes.
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  • Design Space Exploration for ML Applications
    Conducting design-space exploration for software-hardware co-design of application-driven adaptive computing systems, focusing on optimizing power, area, and speed while maintaining high accuracy and low latency.
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  • Resilient Computation for UAV Systems
    Developing "Hydra", an architecture for flexible sensing-analysis-control pipelines over autonomous airborne systems, introducing the concept of information autonomy for edge-assisted UAV applications.
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  • Renewable Energy-driven Vehicular Edge Computing
    Creating machine learning models to predict small cell operation time based on communication traffic, computing demand, and environmental factors, maximizing renewable energy utilization.
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  • Robust UAV Communications
    Designing a robust multi-path communication framework for UAV systems, featuring a fully open-sourced integrated UAV-network simulator called "FlyNestSim".
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  • Software-Defined Edge Computing
    Developing a content and computation-aware communication control framework based on SDN paradigm, using extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) for efficient multi-streaming.
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  • Cognitive Interference Control
    Creating a cognitive interference control framework for heterogeneous local access networks in urban IoT systems, optimizing transmission patterns for improved throughput and accuracy.
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External Collaborators

  1. Sujit Dey, Professor, University of California San Diego

  2. Anand Raghunathan, Professor, Purdue University

  3. Marco Levorato, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine

  4. Truong Nguyen, Professor, University of California San Diego

  5. Dinesh Bharadia, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego

  6. Xinyu Zhang, Associate Professor, University of California San Diego

  7. Sameer Singh, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

  8. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Professor, University of Southern California

  9. Ravi Prakash, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

  10. Aakanksha Chowdhery, Machine Learning Engineer, Google Brain






















Publications

  • Adaptive Computation Partitioning in Edge Computing Systems
    M. H. Uddin, S. Dey, and S. Sabur, "IEEE Conference on Edge Computing", 2024.
    [PDF] | [View on GitHub]

  • Digital Twin for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
    S. Sabur, A. Chowdhery, and B. Krishnamachari, "IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems", 2023.
    [PDF] | [View on GitHub]

  • Multi-modal Sensor Fusion for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
    Y. Ku, S. Sabur, and T. Nguyen, "IEEE Internet of Things Journal", 2023.
    [PDF] | [View on GitHub]

  • For a complete list of publications, please visit our publications page.

















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