This repository is a part of course AuE-8360 "Scaled Autonomous Vehicles" at CU-ICAR (Fall 2023).
AuE-8360: Scaled Autonomous Vehicles, as the name suggests, introduces students to various hardware and software aspects of scaled autonomous vehicles. This course adopts a project-based learning approach, where students work on projects within a larger integrative theme of scaled autonomous vehicles. Projects (to be pursued either individually or in 2-3 person teams) will focus on the development and validation of existing cutting-edge approaches to autonomous perception, planning, control and coordination. This course is handled by Dr. Venkat Krovi, Michelin Endowed SmartState Chair Professor of Vehicle Automation at Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) and director of Automation, Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (ARMLab).
Tinker Twins: Chinmay Samak and Tanmay Samak are twin brothers, who use "Tinker Twins" as a personal brand (the team's name was therefore decided to reflect the same brand). The twins have come a long way tinkering with various tools and technologies, which has strengthened their scientific knowledge and skills. The duo has worked on various projects ranging from microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to in-orbit space settlements, and almost everything in between. They have a particularly keen interest in the field of robotics and autonomous systems, and are specializing in the field of autonomous vehicles.
Chinmay Samak: I received the B.Tech. degree in Mechatronics Engineering with a gold medal from SRM Institute of Science and Technology in 2021. Having worked on several research projects in the field of autonomous vehicles, complemented with a solid background in mechatronics engineering, I have joined ARMLab at CU-ICAR as a direct Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Dr. Venkat Krovi to pursue focused research in the field of vehicle automation. My research interests lie at the intersection of physics-informed and data-driven methods to bridge the sim2real gap using digital twins. I am contributing towards projects such as VIPR-GS, OpenCAV, AutoDRIVE, F1Tenth and Autoware.
Tanmay Samak: I received the B.Tech. degree in Mechatronics Engineering with a silver medal from SRM Institute of Science and Technology in 2021. Having worked on several research projects in the field of autonomous vehicles, complemented with a solid background in mechatronics engineering, I have joined ARMLab at CU-ICAR as a direct Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Dr. Venkat Krovi to pursue focused research in the field of vehicle automation. My research interests lie at the intersection of real and virtual worlds to create physically and graphically accurate digital twins. I am contributing towards projects such as VIPR-GS, OpenCAV, AutoDRIVE, F1Tenth and Autoware.
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Deployment videos pertaining to AutoDRIVE-Autoware Integration are available within the Autoware Playlist on AutoDRIVE Ecosystem's YouTube Channel.
We encourage you to read and cite the following papers if you use any part of this repository for your research:
@inproceedings{AutoDRIVE-Autoware-2024,
author={Samak, Tanmay Vilas and Samak, Chinmay Vilas and Krovi, Venkat Narayan},
booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)},
title={Towards Validation of Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales using an Integrated Digital Twin Framework},
year={2024},
pages={1068-1075},
doi={10.1109/AIM55361.2024.10637205}
}This work has been accepted at 2024 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). The publication can be found on IEEE Xplore.
AutoDRIVE: A Comprehensive, Flexible and Integrated Digital Twin Ecosystem for Enhancing Autonomous Driving Research and Education
@article{AutoDRIVE-Ecosystem-2023,
author = {Samak, Tanmay and Samak, Chinmay and Kandhasamy, Sivanathan and Krovi, Venkat and Xie, Ming},
title = {AutoDRIVE: A Comprehensive, Flexible and Integrated Digital Twin Ecosystem for Autonomous Driving Research & Education},
journal = {Robotics},
volume = {12},
year = {2023},
number = {3},
article-number = {77},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/12/3/77},
issn = {2218-6581},
doi = {10.3390/robotics12030077}
}This work has been published in MDPI Robotics. The open-access publication can be found on MDPI.
@inproceedings{AutoDRIVE-Simulator-2021,
author = {Samak, Tanmay Vilas and Samak, Chinmay Vilas and Xie, Ming},
title = {AutoDRIVE Simulator: A Simulator for Scaled Autonomous Vehicle Research and Education},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781450390453},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3483845.3483846},
doi = {10.1145/3483845.3483846},
booktitle = {2021 2nd International Conference on Control, Robotics and Intelligent System},
pages = {1–5},
numpages = {5},
location = {Qingdao, China},
series = {CCRIS'21}
}This work has been published in 2021 International Conference on Control, Robotics and Intelligent System (CCRIS). The publication can be found on ACM Digital Library.