“The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.“
Peter H. Diamandis | Burt Rutan
Founded in 2016 and closed in 2025, the Autonomous Vehicles & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AVAILAB) was a multidisciplinary laboratory open to a wide spectrum of applications. Its main motivation was to conduct research and solve societal problems leveraging mathematical modelling, optimisation, and artificial intelligence—with a focus on self-organising swarm systems—in Aerospace, Automotive and Environmental Engineering. Primary applications of interest were source-seeking problems (wi-fi weak-spots, radiation sources, heat sources), survivable ad-hoc networks, wildfire emergency response, and precision agriculture.
HISTORY
The Autonomous Vehicles & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AVAILAB) was founded at Coventry University in 2016 under the name of Smart Vehicles Control Laboratory (SVeCLab) by Dr Mauro S. Innocente, Dr Arash M. Dizqah and Dr José M. Herreros. After two of the co-founders left the institution, the focus of the laboratory shifted and its name was therefore amended accordingly in 2018.
