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Self-Organizing Mobility Lab (SOMLab)

Southeast University

Prof. Di Liu
Prof. Di Liu
Director of SOMLab
Full Professor
di.liu2@seu.edu.cn
Prof. Alessandro Astolfi
Prof. Alessandro Astolfi
Visiting Professor of SOMLab
Full Professor of
Imperial College London
Prof. Wenwu Yu
Prof. Wenwu Yu
Full Professor
Prof. Simone Baldi
Prof. Simone Baldi
Full Professor

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

Adaptive and Learning Systems
Control-Oriented Learning, Adaptive Control, Reconfigurable Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models, Foundation Models, Reinforcement Learning, Social AI
Collective Intelligence
Resilient Networks, Formation and Flocking, Multiagent Systems
Autonomous Systems
Autopilots for Unmanned Systems,
Embodied Intelligence, Adaptive Robotics
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles,
Advanced Air Mobility, Low-Altitude Economy
Smart Energy Systems
Smart Buildings, Smart Grids,
User-Centric Building Automation

Lab Statistics

30+
Partner Universities
200+
Publications
4
Academic Books
30+
Research Projects