Projects.
Every project rolls into a campus pillar. Most run on the shared PLOT sensing fabric and the on-site data lake.
Wellness, automation, and ambient awareness for everyday environments.
On-Site Edge Data Lake
A former carport rebuilt into an on-site edge data center: multimodal data pipeline, Parquet storage, and on-device inference. Exterior complete April 2026; interior fit-out underway.
Field Station · 25 Acres
Twenty-five acres of living testbed where the campus senses, learns, and responds to the people in it — the shared canvas for environmental, sensing, mobility, robotics, and agriculture pilots.
Gen-2 Multi-Modal Sensor Unit
A privacy-aware ambient sensing unit designed in-house — from CAD to fabrication to live deployment in a single semester. Deployed for the first live demo, March 2026.
AI-Driven Assistive Dexterous Manipulation
Multi-finger dexterous manipulation for assistive daily living — deep reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, and shared autonomy from KSU's Intelligent Dexterity (InDex) Lab.
Environment, Memory & Creativity
Studying how time-of-day and environmental context shape memory and creative thinking inside the living lab.
Movement Monitoring · Motion Capture
Markerless, multi-modal motion capture — RGB, depth, thermal, and pose — for movement, exercise, and rehabilitation monitoring on real in-home activity.
Wireless Sensing of Daily Activities
Continuous, privacy-aware wireless sensing (RF and mmWave) of everyday in-home activities, captured across realistic routines.
Nutrilyzer · Meal-Picture Nutrition
AI pipeline that converts meal photos into structured per-ingredient nutrition estimates.
SmartCare Dementia AI
AI-supported care for people living with dementia — ambient, privacy-preserving monitoring of wellbeing, sleep, and daily activity that surfaces meaningful changes early and lightens the load on caregivers.
mHealth · Sleep & Behavior
mHealth, healthcare informatics, and AI-driven sleep and behavioral analytics.
Neuromorphic & Edge AI
Neuromorphic computing and energy-efficient AI on the edge.
Platform Data Pipelining & Captures
Multimodal data pipelining and capture infrastructure that feeds the platform and its research datasets.
Crack Detection · Quadruped Robot
Autonomous concrete-crack inspection on a Unitree Go1 quadruped — LiDAR + RGB-D SLAM for navigation and a YOLO crack-detection model that localizes and scores surface cracks in real time, indoors and out.
Outreach & Learning
Community outreach and hands-on engagement across the PLOT site — tours, demos, and K-12 and university programs that bring people onto the living campus.
Educational Pilot
Embedding the living campus into coursework — students learn sensing, AI, and human-centered design by building and studying real PLOT systems.
Precision agriculture and controlled environments at field scale.
Low-Cost Soil-Health Sensing
Low-cost multi-sensor soil monitoring with machine-learning estimation of composite soil health; first units in test deployment.
Drone + Ground-Robot Teaming
Coordinated drone and ground-robot teaming for field operations (USDA AFRI 2025).