Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Knowledge-perception Systems

Contact

Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engr.,
University of Connecticut,
371 Fairfield Way,
Storrs, CT-06269, USA
Phone: 860-486-3494
Email: shalabh.gupta@uconn.edu

Open Positions

LINKS always has openings for motivated PhD students who are willing to work in the areas of Distributed Robotics, Networked Control Systems, Cyber-physical Systems and Machine Perception.

Click here to see the current open positions if you are interested in being part of LINKS

Featured Videos

Autonomous Flight Test for an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)

UUV Test in a Lake for Underwater Surveillance and Imaging

Useful Sites

Uconn School of Engineering
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Research Summary

LINKS focuses on various problems related to Cyber-physical Systems. In particular, the main focus areas include Complex Networked Systems, Distributed Intelligent Systems, Swarm Robotics, Sensor Networks, Autonomous Systems Navigation, Path Planning, Smart Grids, Data Analytics, Information Fusion, and Diagnostics & Prognostics in Complex Systems.

Research Highlights

Recent Publications

N. Najjar, S. Gupta, J. Hare, S. Kandil, and R. Walthall, “Optimal Sensor Selection and Fusion for Heat Exchanger Fouling Diagnosis in Aerospace Systems”, IEEE Sensors Journal,, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 4866-4881, June (2016)
J. Hare and S. Gupta, “Decentralized Smart Sensor Scheduling for Multiple Target Tracking for Border Surveillance”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, Washington, May, (2015).
J. Wilson, N. Najjar, S. Gupta and J. Hare, “Human Activity Recognition using LZW-Coded Probabilistic Finite State Automata”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, Washington, May, (2015).
J. Song, K. Qiu, S. Gupta and J. Hare, “SLAM based Adaptive Navigation of AUVs for Oil Spill Cleaning”, Proceedings of OCEANS'14 MTS/IEEE, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, September, (2014).
"Distributed Smart Sensor Scheduling for Underwater Target Tracking”, MTS/IEEE OCEANS, 2014.
“A Review of Faults and Fault Diagnosis in Micro-grids Electrical Energy Infrastructure”, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, 2014
"Adaptive Cleaning of Oil Spills by Autonomous Vehicles Under Partial Information”, MTS/IEEE OCEANS, 2013.
“Heat Exchanger Fouling Diagnosis for an Aircraft Air-Conditioning System”, SAE AeroTech Congress and Exhibition, 2013.
“Distributed Algorithms for Energy-efficient Even Self-deployment in Mobile Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2013.
“Fault Diagnosis in Electric Drives using Machine Learning Approaches”, IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, 2013 .
“Health Assessment of Liquid Cooling System in Aircrafts: Data Visualization, Reduction, Clustering and Classification”, SAE International Journal of Aerospace, 2012.
“Online Recursive Estimation of Remaining Life Using Ultrasonic Measurements”, Structural Health Monitoring– An International Journal, 2012.
"Target Detection and Classification Using Seismic and PIR Sensors”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2012.
“Cooperative Coverage using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Unknown Environments”, MTS/IEEE OCEANS, 2012.
“Fractal Analysis of Crack Initiation in Polycrystalline Alloys using Surface Interferometry”, Euro Physics Letters, 2012.
“Statistical-Mechanics-Inspired Optimization of Sensor Field Configuration for Detection of Mobile Targets”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part B- Cybernetics, 2011.

Research Themes

2015 IEEE ICCSE

Latest News

10/2016: Nayeff Najjar passed his PhD defense on "Information Fusion in Complex Interconnected Systems". Congratulations Nayeff!!
09/2016: Khushboo Mittal won the first prize in 2016 PHM Doctoral Symposium. Congratulations Khushboo!!
07/2016: James Hare received the Sirkosky Fellowship for Fall 2016 for his outstanding contributions in Aerospace Engineering related research. Congratulations James!!
05/2016: Researches on EASY-SITS a rehabilitation device and Autonomous Air Vehicles were showcased in Hartford Capitol.!!
11/2015: Dr. Gupta served as Program Chair of the 2015 International Conference on Complex Systems Engineering.!!
04/2015: Clancy Emanuel and his team won the first prize in ECE Senior design for their demonstration of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. The work was presented later in OCEANS 2015 conference. Congratulations Clancy and team!!
12/2014: Junnan Song received the Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Spring 2015. Congratulations Junnan!!
11/2014: LINKS received a grant from UTC for research on Supervisory Control of Complex Systems.
08/2014: LINKS participated in Joules Fellows Program which was successfully completed. Click here to read more.
06/2014: Robotics research on Quadcoptors featured on UConn Today! Click here to read full!
05/2014: 2nd Prize- Senior Design Team : The team consisting of Lingyi Zhang, Hugh DeJarnette and Aaron Sullivan won the 2nd prize for their senior design project on Command and Control of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
01/2014: Rosse Gates received the IDEA grant from UCONN for conducting research in Unmanned Air Vehicles.

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