Mobility Intelligence Lab

Five-car AV fleet at MiLa

USDOT Assistant Secretary Seval Oz Rides with MiLa AV

Bin (Brian) Xu (PI), binxu@ou.edu, CV, Google Scholar, Linkedin

Research Interests

Application:

Embodied AI, Physical AI, Autonomous Driving
Autonomous Vehicle Full Stack In-house Software Development (perception, path planning, path tracking)
Autonomous Vehicle Modification, Instrumentation and Drive-by-Wire (DBW) Realization
Autonomous Vehicle Road Testing (ADAS, Robotaxi, SAE L2/L3/L4)
Connected Vehicles Testing (V2X, V2I, V2V, V2C)
Vehicle Electrification (electric vehicle & hybrid electric vehicle)
Dynamics and Control

Theory:

Reinforcement Learning
Supervised Learning
Optimal Control
Physics-based Modeling

Grants

U.S. DOT Rural Autonomous Vehicle (RAV) Research Program: ACCEL-RT: Autonomous Cargo Carriers for Enhanced Logistics in Rural & Tribal Areas (Co-PI, Research Credit 27%, total funding: $20 million) (2/2026-1/2032) (Featured in abc 5 KOCO news)

U.S. DOE Vehicle Technology Office - WIDE: Improving Accessibility and Efficiency of Public Transportation via Optimal Integration with Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Tribal Communities (Co-PI, Research Credit 35%, total funding: $3.4 million) (9/2024-8/2027) (Featured in abc 10 KOCO news)

U.S. DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management: A Regional-Scale Showcase of Hybrid Methane Sensing Networks in the Anadarko Basin (Co-PI, Research Credit 10%, total funding: $8 million) (9/2023-3/2028)

Association of Central Oklahoma Goverment (ACOG) Public Fleet Grant: Boosting Electric Vehicle Charging Capability on University of Oklahoma Norman Campus (Co-PI, Research Credit 40%, total funding: $187,333) (2/2024-1/2026)

OU DISC Faculty Seed Funding Award: Integrated Off-Road Long-Range Navigation, Local Path Planning and Following via Fully Automated Cooperation of Vehicle Embedded Autonomous Drones and Ground Vehicles (PI, Research Credit 40%, total funding: $12k) (7/2025-6/2026)

OU DISC Faculty Seed Funding Award: Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Oxides for a New Generation of Lithium-Ion Batteries (Co-PI, Research Credit 10%, total funding: $10k) (8/2022-7/2023)