Chinmay Vilas Samak
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About
Chinmay Vilas Samak is a researcher specializing in autonomous systems, intelligent transportation, and control theory, with a particular focus on bridging the gap between simulation and real-world deployment of autonomy algorithms. His most prominent contribution, AutoDRIVE, has emerged as a landmark achievement in the field — a comprehensive, flexible, and integrated digital twin ecosystem designed to accelerate autonomous driving research and education. Garnering 32 citations since its 2023 publication, AutoDRIVE provides an open-access, modular framework for prototyping and validating hardware-software components within intelligent transportation systems, addressing a critical need in the research community. Samak has further advanced autonomous vehicle control through his work on Koopman operator-based methods, applying Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition (EDMD) to optimize path-tracking in Ackermann-steered vehicles. His research into Sim2Real transfer tackles one of robotics' most persistent challenges, developing strategies to deploy simulation-trained algorithms into physical environments with minimal performance degradation. Early work on self-balancing robots demonstrates his longstanding interest in state estimation and control system design. Across his career, Samak's contributions reflect a consistent drive to make autonomous systems more accessible, rigorous, and practically deployable.
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- 3AutoDRIVE Simulator -- Technical Report6 citations · 2022
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