Research

ELISA: ELectrified and Intelligent Systems Automation Lab

The ELectrified and Intelligent Systems Automation Lab (ELISA) at Oakland University was established in 2020. The primary research of ELISA Lab are in the areas of AI-assisted control algorithm development with application in intelligent vehicles and power & energy systems. The projects involve fundamental research on control theory, optimization, artificial intelligence, and statistics to support intelligent cyber-physical systems development including smart energy and transportation systems.

Research Areas

Reconfigurable and Predictive Control with Reinforcement Learning Supervisor for Active Battery Cell Balancing
Ocean Energy Supported Multi-Energy System Planning and Operation Optimization for Sustainable Coastal Community
Sensor-lean EV Battery Management Systems
Energy-aware Vertical Motion Control
Optimal Scheduling of Edge Devices for Decentralized Data Preprocessing

Research Areas

AI-assisted Control

Event-triggered MPC
Reinforcement Learning-based MPC
Learning-based MPC
Reconfigurable MPC

Intelligent Vehicles

Autonomous Vehicle Path Following
Electric Vehicles Driveline Control
Active Battery Cell Balancing
Co-simulation and Small-scale Experiment Platforms

Power & Energy Systems

Energy Storage Systems
Power Converter
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

Project Sponsors

IFT MSGC NSF

NCAT

NIST

Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in our research are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the project sponsors.