On October 17, 2025, our team at Sky-Lab welcomed Prof. Devesh Ranjan, Grainger Dean of the UWā€“Madison College of Engineering, during his visit to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. We demonstrated a newly developed 5G-enabled remote takeover and real-time control system for autonomous vehicles.

Using a steering-wheel control station and live video interface, Dean Ranjan remotely operated our research vehicle over the cellular connection. We also presented the system architecture and shared our ongoing research in connected and autonomous transportation. The demonstration represented one of the outcomes of our teamā€™s development and integration work over the summer.

More about the visit is available in Dean Devesh Ranjanā€™s LinkedIn post.

Dean Devesh Ranjan operating Sky-Lab's remote-driving system

Dean Devesh Ranjan operating Sky-Lab's remote-driving system.

Sky-Lab members introducing the remote-driving system to Dean Devesh Ranjan

Introducing the remote-driving system to Dean Ranjan.

Presenting Sky-Lab's connected and autonomous vehicle research to Dean Devesh Ranjan

Prof. Sikai (Sky) Chen presenting our connected and autonomous vehicle research to Dean Devesh Ranjan.

Sky-Lab presenting the remote-driving system architecture

Explaining the remote-driving system architecture.

A live demonstration of Sky-Lab's remote-driving system

Demonstrating live vehicle control through the remote interface.

Sky-Lab presenting its remote-driving and autonomous vehicle research

Prof. Sikai (Sky) Chen sharing our remote-driving and autonomous vehicle research with Dean Devesh Ranjan.

Dean Devesh Ranjan with Sky-Lab members

Dean Devesh Ranjan with Sky-Lab and CATS Lab members.

Dean Devesh Ranjan and Sky-Lab members with the autonomous research vehicle

With Dean Ranjan and our autonomous research vehicle.