Research

Doctoral Dissertation:

My doctoral dissertation is to design a high-density parking lot for autonomous vehicles.  I solve a facility planning & design  problem using methods from operations research and artificial intelligence.

Abstract: Taking advantage of self-parking and intelligent communication systems of autonomous vehicles, we propose puzzle-based parking, a high density design for a parking lot. We introduce a novel method of vehicle parking, which leads to maximum parking density. We then propose a heuristic method to solve larger problems, and mathematically prove that the method produces optimal results. To improve layout designs reducing vehicular movements, we propose a use of a local search integrated with a deep reinforcement learning method. Finally, to take advantage of these puzzle-based designs in large-scale, we propose a modular layout design.