Fluidic City Lab

Welcome to the Fluidic City Lab in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Tennessee! We are a highly interdisciplinary team passionate about shaping future urban environments through the advancement of human mobility. Our current focus lies in the integration of increasing autonomy into the mobility system and its impact on the built environment and urban inhabitants. We draw research methods and tools from machine learning/reinforcement learning, robotics, multi-agent systems, visual computing, human-computer interaction, and transportation engineering.



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Li and Islam Organize ITSC Workshop

Sep 24, 2024

Dr. Weizi Li and Iftekharul Islam participate in organizing the ITSC 2024 workshop “Advanced Modeling, Evaluation, and Simulation of Interactions in Mixed Traffic Comprising Pedestrians, Automated Vehicles, and Human-driven Vehicles.”

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Project Through Grand Challenge Program

Sep 03, 2024

Dr. Weizi Li participates in the project “Feasibility of Implementing a Personalized eHealth Program through Fitness Wearables and Applications Among Rural Cancer Survivors” funded by the UT Grand Challenge program.

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Hossain Joins Fluidic City Lab

Aug 19, 2024

Alamgir Hossain is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his BSc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). His primary research interest is in Robotics and AI. Alamgir enjoys travelling and roaming around different places, and watching movies.

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Raskoti Joins Fluidic City Lab

Aug 18, 2024

Chandra Raskoti is from Nepal. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at IOE, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University. Next time you're up for a game, just hit him up—he'll probably say yes.

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One Paper Accepted by IJRR 2024

Aug 18, 2024

Our paper Learning to Control and Coordinate Mixed Traffic Through Robot Vehicles at Complex and Unsignalized Intersections has been accepted by International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)​, 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!

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Fan Joins Fluidic City Lab

Aug 17, 2024

Muyang Fan is from China. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon. He worked as a developer at ILabs. In his free time, Muyang likes traveling, playing video games, and meditation.

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Li’s Article Published in The Conversation

Aug 01, 2024

Dr. Weizi Li’s article “Robocars promise to improve traffic even when most of the cars around them are driven by people, study finds” is published in The Conversation.

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One Paper Accepted to CYBER 2024

Jul 16, 2024

Our paper CARL: Congestion-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Imitation-based Perturbations in Mixed Traffic Control has been accepted to International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER)​, 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!

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Li Invited to Programme Committee of RSS

Jul 15, 2024

Dr. Weizi Li is invited to serve in the programme committee of RSS 2024 .

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Two Papers Accepted to IROS 2024

Jun 30, 2024

Our papers EnduRL: Enhancing Safety, Stability, and Efficiency of Mixed Traffic Under Real-World Perturbations Via Reinforcement Learning and AutoJoin: Efficient Adversarial Training for Robust Maneuvering via Denoising Autoencoder and Joint Learning have been accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!

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One Paper Accepted to ICRA 2024

May 13, 2024

Our paper Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination from Pixels has been accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) held in PACIFICO Yokohama, Japan. Congratulations to all the authors!

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One Paper Accepted to CVPR 2024

Apr 20, 2024

Our paper LASIL: Learner-Aware Supervised Imitation Learning For Long-term Microscopic Traffic Simulation has been accepted to IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!

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Intel AI Lab's Visit

Mar 15, 2024

Dr. Mariano Phielipp from the Intel AI Lab visits the Fluidic City Lab.

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One Paper Accepted to FISTS​ 2024

Feb 26, 2024

Our paper Analyzing Emissions and Energy Efficiency at Unsignalized Real-world Intersections Under Mixed Traffic Control has been accepted to IEEE Forum for Innovative Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS)​, 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!

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Islam Joins Fluidic City Lab

Jan 22, 2024

Iftekhar Islam is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology. He also worked as a graphic design intern at 10 Minute School. In his free time, Iftekhar enjoys cooking, and watching movies and documentaries.

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Li Gives Invited Talk at AUIN Workshop

Dec 15, 2023

Dr. Weizi Li is invited to give a talk at the Automotive Innovation workshop.

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Li Invited to Programme Committee of DARS

Dec 11, 2023

Dr. Weizi Li is invited to serve in the programme committee of DARS 2024.

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One Paper Accepted by IEEE IoT-J

Dec 01, 2023

Our paper Large-scale Mixed Traffic Control Using Dynamic Vehicle Routing and Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourcing has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)​, 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!