Self-Organizing Mobility Lab (SOMLab)
Imperial College London
The Self-Organizing Mobility Laboratory (SOMLab) is committed to advancing foundational and applied research in self-organizing coordination, adaptive and learning-based control, embodied intelligence, interpretable AI and foundation models, and intelligent decision-making theory. Its work spans intelligent and connected vehicles, low-altitude economic applications and cross-domain unmanned systems, intelligent transportation networks, smart buildings, and intelligent energy infrastructures, supporting breakthroughs in cooperative autonomy, predictive planning, and safety-critical control across real-world mobility and cyber–physical systems.
SOMLab aims to establish a future-oriented paradigm for self-organizing, collaborative, and self-evolving intelligence. Leveraging embodied intelligence for cross-modal perception, comprehension, and action planning, the lab integrates distributed adaptive cooperative control, emergence-driven organizational mechanisms, and safety-critical decision and control technologies. Its overarching ambition is to enable efficient coordination, resilient autonomy, and energy-optimized operation across ground, aerial, and interconnected urban infrastructures, fostering the deep convergence of intelligent mobility, low-altitude ecosystems, and smart energy networks and catalyzing the emergence of a new generation of integrated intelligent environments.
Research Areas
Embodied Intelligence, Adaptive Robotics
Advanced Air Mobility, Low-Altitude Economy
User-Centric Building Automation