Dr. Venki Muthukumar Research Lab
In Dr. Venki Muthukumar’s research lab at UNLV, we conduct hands-on research in robotics, autonomous systems, and intelligent sensing. Our work focuses on designing, building, and deploying robotic platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for real-world applications including environmental monitoring, wildfire research, and data-driven decision making.
Feel free to explore our projects, reach out if you are interested in learning more about our research or getting involved.
Current Projects
We are exploring efficient guidance, navigation and control algorithms using sensor fusion, visual odometery, deep learning techniques for mobile robots in indoor applications.Tiny/Embedded/Edge Machine Learning & AI
We are exploring efficient (SLaP) Machine Learning algorithms for audio, sound, IMU signals, etc. detection and classification.
Smart Advanced Manufacturing Systems
that integrate embedded machine learning, multi-modal sensor fusion, and unified protocol frameworks to enable intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous industrial operations.
UAV Research
We are exploring efficient UAV guidance, navigation and control algorithms for UAVs in urban applications. Development of a low cost modularized UAV testbed for HIL simulations. Also effective use of mini FLIR and hyper-spectral cameras for people, vehicle and terrain detection. Use of acoustic for target classification and localization. Autonomous indoor navigation based on sensor fusion.
NoC Research
Efficient router design for VC channel buffer utilization, VC allocation, Routing algorithms, Mapping Algorithms, etc.
Transportation Engineering
Development of pedestrian count and tracking algorithms, pedestrian-vehicle conflict detection system.
