One campus, three connected research worlds.
PLOT is now a campus-scale platform, not a single residence: living environments, field environments, and movement systems share sensing, data stewardship, and research teams.
PLOT House
Eight intelligent indoor spaces where human-centered research meets everyday routines.
- Sleep, wellness, rehab, nutrition, immersion, meeting, common, and office spaces
- Sensing Unit v2 demonstrations and de-identified captures
- Safety and privacy by design
CIRCE
Precision agriculture, controlled growing, environmental telemetry, and outdoor autonomy at the KSU Field Station.
- Soil and microclimate intelligence
- Field robotics and crop-stage sensing
- Environmental models tied to real plots
Intelligent Logistics
Movement systems for transportation, routing, robotics, connected vehicles, and edge coordination.
- Cooperative mobility and routing pilots
- Movement analytics across the living campus
- Robotics and transportation workflows
The work.
Our Mission
PLOT builds intelligent ecosystems that can be tested where life actually happens: rooms, fields, mobility routes, demonstrations, and the data paths that connect them.
The platform gives researchers and partners a practical way to move from prototype to field evidence while keeping safety, privacy, and human context in the center of the work.
The Future of Agentic AI in Real Environments
PLOT studies how AI systems can observe, reason, and adapt inside real living, field, and movement environments. The goal is practical evidence: systems that are responsive, explainable, and useful under real constraints.
The Agentic AI Architecture
PLOT frames intelligent environments around a continuous loop:
Aging, wellness, food systems, mobility, workforce training, and privacy-aware data systems are connected in real life. PLOT lets those challenges be studied together instead of isolating them into separate lab demos.
Research Excellence
Turn prototypes into publishable, fundable, field-tested evidence.
Real Environments
Use rooms, fields, and movement zones rather than abstract test benches alone.
On-Site Data Stewardship
Keep governance close to the people, spaces, and sensors that create the data.
Safety & Privacy by Design
Build consent-aware and de-identified workflows into demonstrations from the start.
Technical backbone
Sensing Unit v2
Deployable multimodal sensing and local processing for room, field, and demonstration workflows.
Edge data lake
An on-site data center converted from a former carport to support local stewardship.
PLOT House spaces
Eight intelligent indoor environments for wellness, rehabilitation, nutrition, immersion, and everyday activity.
Field Station scale
Twenty-five acres for agriculture, robotics, environmental telemetry, and logistics studies.
Research domains
The work spans living systems, agriculture, logistics, robotics, sensing, health, and the infrastructure needed to study them together.
Human-centered environments
Adaptive rooms, rehabilitation spaces, sleep, wellness, stress, and daily routines.
Precision agriculture
Soil, microclimate, crop health, and field robotics in real outdoor conditions.
Logistics and movement
Transportation, connected vehicles, routing, robotics, and campus-scale coordination.
Operating principles
The platform is built to be ambitious without becoming careless: useful, open, grounded, and respectful of the people and places involved.
Honest evidence
Name what is deployed, what is planned, and what still needs validation.
Open collaboration
Give faculty, students, partners, and community stakeholders clear entry points.
Human-centered systems
Treat intelligent environments as support systems for people, not replacements for judgment.
Upcoming milestones.
What is coming next across the three campus pillars.
Data lake interior fit-out
Move from exterior completion to operational rack, power, networking, and governed ingestion workflows.
PLOT House demonstration library
Curate March 2026 de-identified captures into reusable research, proposal, and teaching material.
CIRCE pilot alignment
Connect soil, microclimate, robotics, and controlled-growing pilots under the CIRCE pathway.
Logistics partner demonstrations
Frame mobility and connected-vehicle pilots around public demonstrations and sponsor conversations.
Where we are today.
PLOT House
Indoor living, wellness, rehab, nutrition, meeting, immersion, and office spaces.
- Eight-space program defined100%
- Sensing Unit v2 demonstration workflow30%
- Reusable de-identified capture library20%
CIRCE
Field and controlled-growing research for precision agriculture.
- Field station research areas mapped20%
- Soil and microclimate sensing pilots8%
- Outdoor autonomy pipeline3%
Logistics & Transportation
Mobility, routing, connected vehicles, and robotics coordination.
- Cooperative mobility pilot framed8%
- Route and movement data model5%
- Partner demonstration plan5%
On-Site Data Stewardship
Edge data lake, governance, and local research data pathways.
- Exterior data-lake build complete100%
- Interior fit-out and rack planning30%
- Governed ingestion workflow50%
What we have shipped.
ASIConf 2026 launch
PLOT helped launch ASIConf 2026 at Prillaman Hall, KSU, on April 1, 2026.
Data lake exterior complete
The former carport reached a finished exterior state for the on-site edge data center.
Live demonstration captures
Seventeen de-identified PLOT demonstration captures were collected on March 23, 2026.
By the numbers.
Want to get involved?
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