Major projects that ACCESS Laboratory has Contributed to
Major projects that ACCESS Laboratory has Contributed to
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Our team was awarded by DOT to establish a $30M Regional University Transportation Center (UTC).
Complete List of Funded Projects
Complete List of Funded Projects
- "University Transportation Center for Regional and Rural Connected Communities (CR2C2)," USDOT, 2022-2029, $30M (including $15M Cost-share), PI. See the complete list of the Team, (Project Website, NCA&T Press Release, USDOT Project Details)
Rural Connected Communities, NCDOT, $250,000, 2024–2026, PI, A. Karimoddini.
Piloting a UAS Handshake Device, Phase 1, Civil-Military Innovation Institute, Inc., $608,830, 2025–2026, PI, Ali Karimoddini, Binbin Yang, Chris Horne.
Simulation of Dynamic Adversarial Environments for Counter-Uncrewed Aircraft System Assessment and Optimization, Sandia National Lab, $50,000, 2025-2026.
Rural Autonomous-Vehicle Microtransit Partnership for Underserved Populations (RAMP-UP), FTA, $100,000, 2025–2026, Meggan Roberts Odell, Venktesh Pandey, Ali Karimoddini, Cathy Powers, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Kai Monast.
Special Operations Forces (SOF) Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) Plugin, Civil-Military Innovation Institute, Inc., $396,089, 2025–2026, PI, Ali Karimoddini.
Southeast Data Competition, Honda, $100,000, 2025–2026, Ali Karimoddini, Venktesh Pandey, Christina Mosely.
Regional University Transportations Center, State Technical Assistance and Match Program (STAMP), $750,000, PI, A. Karimoddini.
Piloting the remote-controlled operation of automated driving shuttles, NCDOT, $172,000, 2024–2026, PI, A. Karimoddini.
The University Transportation Center of Excellence for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), NCDOT, $2,000,000, 2025-2027, A. Homaifar (Lead PI), A. Karimoddini, in collaboration with NCSU and ECSU.
Autonomous Testing and Validation of Security Systems. Sandia National Lab, 2023-204, $200k, PI, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), H. Nguyenm.
Development of a UAS Handshake Device, DoD, March 2024 -Aug 2024, $500k, PI., A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), A. Homaifar, S. Khorsandroo, H. Nguyenm, B. Yang .
"Technology Transfer (T2): Microtransit Pilot Project in Greensboro," NCDOT, $172,000, 2023-2024, A. Karimoddini. ( Project Website, NCDOT Project Details)
Robust and Resilient Autonomy for Advanced Air Mobility, NASA, $736,000, 2022–2025, PI, Led by UIUC, A. Karimoddini (NCAT PI), I. Raptis.
"Assessment of the current infrastructure and the required adjustments for safe operation of vehicles’ autonomy functionalities in rural areas," NCDOT, $240,344, 2023-2025, PI, A. Karimoddini.
"The Center for Autonomous Vehicles in Air Transportation Engineering (AVIATE) ," NASA, $6,000,000, 2022-2025, NCA&T PI, Led by UIUC, NCA&T Team: A. Karimoddini (NCAT PI), I. Raptis, Kory L. Bennett (Project Website)
"Improving the performance and runtime efficiency of the object detection and classification," Ford Motors, $100,000, 2021-2022, Co-PI, Balakrishna Gokaraju, A. Karimoddini.
"Computationally effective Distributed Control of UAVs for Cooperative Search and Coverage," DOE Sandia National Laboratories, $200,000, 2021-2022, PI, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), Hieu Nguyenm.
"Developing and Operationalizing a Testbed of Connected Self-driving Shuttles to Test and Develop CAV Applications in North Carolina," NCDOT, $291,670, 2021-2024, PI, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), A. Homaifar. (NCDOT Project Details)
"UAV Selection Methodology and Performance Evaluation to Support UAV-Enabled Bridge Inspection, NCDOT, $373,177, 2021-2023, PI, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), Tara Cavalline (UNCC). (Project Website, NCDOT Project Details)
"Aggie Autonomous Auto- SAE AutoDrive Challenge II (STAGE II)," $120,000, SAE International, Co-PI, Sun Yi (Lead PI), Ali Karimoddini, Daniel Acree.
"MRI: Acquisition of a Testbed of Connected Autonomous MicroTransit Vehicles," NSF, $785,714 (including $285,714 Cost-share) Mahmoud Mahmoud, Leila Hashemi Beni, Daniel Limbrick. (NSF Project Webpage)
"University Leadership Initiative: Secure and Safe Assured Autonomy," NASA, $8M, 2020-2024, Co-PI, Abdollah Homaifar (Lead PI), Ali Karimoddini, Yahya Kamalipour, John Kelly, Ioannis Raptis, In collaboration with Purdue and Georgia Tech (Project Webpage).
"Excellence in Research: Real-time Fault Diagnosis for Self-Driving Vehicles," NSF, $810,000, 2020-2024, Co-PI, Daniel Limbrick (Lead PI), Ali Karimoddini, Abdollah Homaifar, Mahmoud Mahmoud. (NSF Project Webpage)
"NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology (NC-CAV)," NCDOT, $2M,A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), A. Homaifar, W. Fan (UNCC), T. Chase (NCSU), J. Kelly, S. Jiang, L. Hashemi Beni, A. Eroglu, N. Rouphail (NCSU), C. Cunningham (NCSU), A. Hajbabaie (NCSU), S.C. Lin (NCSU), D. Findley (NCSU), S. Bert (NCSU), N. Norboge (NCSU), 2020-2022 (Project Website, NCDOT Public Release, NC A&T Public Release)
"Supporting the UAS research at NCA&T," Intel, $43,795, A. Karimoddini, 2019-2020.
"An Airborne Remote-sensing Platform for Smart Agriculture, Environment, and Infrastructure Management," College of Engineering, NCA&T, $79,858, 2019-2020, PI, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), A. Homaifar, A. Shahbazi.
"Developing a Safe and Cost-effective Flight Control Methodology for a UAV-Enabled Bridge Inspection,"NCDOT, $263,937, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), N. Goudarzi (UNCC), A. Homaifar, 2019-2020 (Project Website, NCDOT Project Details).
“Excellence in Research: A Reliable Automated Distributed Monitoring System for Smart Agricultural Applications,” National Science Foundation (NSF), $596,143, A. Karimoddini, L. Hashemi, A. Shahbazi, 2018-2021. (NSF Project Details).
"Context-aware Decision-making and Automatic Tasking for Autonomous Vehicles," Army Research Laboratory (ARL), $260,000, 2020-2022, Abdollah Homaifar (Lead PI), Ali Karimoddini.
"Development of a Cyber-physical Testbed for Evaluating Distributed Ledger Technology's Performance in Smart Distribution Grid Communication," DOE Sandia National Laboratories, $61,600, March 2021-Oct. 2021, Hieu Nguyenm, A. Karimoddini.
"Automatic Control Synthesis for Coordination and Motion Planning of Cooperative Robots," Siemens, $26,000, 2021-2022, A. Karimoddini.
“Data-driven Intelligent Prediction Tool (DIPT),” DOD Test Resource Management Center, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, DOD Test Resource Management Center, $5,300,000, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, 2016-2020. (NC A&T Press Release)
“Testing, Evaluation and Control of Heterogeneous Large-scale Autonomous Vehicles (TECHLAV),” DoD Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), $6,000,000, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, J. Kelly, Y. Seong, 2015-2022. (NC A&T Press release ; Project Website).
“Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Traffic Safety through Pedestrian Detection, Classification and Communication,” North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), $199,396 , M. Palmer, A. Karimoddini, S. Hollar, J. Feng, A. Homaifar, 2019-2021. (NCDOT Project Details).
“A3- Aggies' Autonomous Auto,” $336,547, A. Karimoddini, S. Yi, D. Acree, SAE International and General Motors, 2017-2020.
“Reliable and Flexible Teaming of Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles,” DoD Army Research Office (ARO), $500,000, A. Karimoddini, A. Homaifar, 2016-2018.
"The Undergraduate and High School Research Apprenticeship," DOD Army Research Office (ARO), $6,600, Summer 2017, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), A. Homaifar.
"Developing a 1/10 scale autonomous car," Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), $8,000, 2016-2017, A. Karimoddini.
"Developing a hybrid UAV/UGV," General Dynamics (GD), $2,000, 2016-2017, A. Karimoddini (Lead PI), A. Homaifar.
“Data Driven Techniques for Testing and Evaluation of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems,” General Informatics Inc (GI), $480,000, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, 2015-2016.
“A Type-2 Fuzzy Inference System Development Toolbox,” Scientific Research Corporation (SRC), $214,950.00, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, 2014.
“Developing a Test-bed of Multi-agent Systems,” College of Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Drive toward research preeminence program, $96,140, A. Karimoddini, A. Homaifar, 2013.
“Assistive robot for geriatric and handicap application,” College of Engineering Research Equipment Funding, North Carolina A&T State University, $100,176, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, 2013.
“Inference Engine Using Type-2 Fuzzy Sets, Focus on type-reduction,” Scientific Research Corporation (SRC), $36,800, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, 2013.
“Inference Engine Using Type-2 Fuzzy Sets, Feasibility Study and Concept building,” Scientific Research Corporation (SRC), $75,000, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, 2013.
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