Research Highlights
- 1: Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)
- 2: Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)
- 3: Artificial intelligence
- 4: Driving simulations
- 5: UCI campus and the City of Irvine
Connectivity and Autonomous Mobility Laboratory (CAML)
Connectivity and Autonomous Mobility Laboratory considers both aspects of connectivity, including vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V). Communication between vehicles and infrastructure will be powered by artificial intelligence, which will aim to improve safety, energy efficiency, and travel time. In addition, sensor technology that relies on lidar, radar, and cameras will be evaluated as introduced with each level of autonomous driving. Communication ports, sensors, autonomous steering and breaking will put additional demand on electrochemical power source and hence, these components will be optimized for the most effective energy consumption.
These activities will be executed at three levels: driving simulations, controlled laboratory conditions through a testbed and the VEL, and a field laboratory that involves the UCI campus and the City of Irvine.