8 papers
When Digital Twins Meet Large Language Models: Realistic, Interactive, and Editable Simulation for Autonomous Driving
Tanmay Vilas Samak, Chinmay Vilas Samak, Bing Li +1
Simulation frameworks have been key enablers for the development and validation of autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods struggle to comprehensively address the aut…
Sim2Real Diffusion: Leveraging Foundation Vision Language Models for Adaptive Automated Driving
Chinmay Vilas Samak, Tanmay Vilas Samak, Bing Li +1
Simulation-based design, optimization, and validation of autonomous vehicles have proven to be crucial for their improvement over the years. Nevertheless, the ultimate measure of e…
A Systematic Digital Engineering Approach to Verification & Validation of Autonomous Ground Vehicles in Off-Road Environments
Tanmay Vilas Samak, Chinmay Vilas Samak, Julia Brault +6
The engineering community currently encounters significant challenges in the systematic development and validation of autonomy algorithms for off-road ground vehicles. These challe…
Physics constrained learning of stochastic characteristics
Pardha Sai Krishna Ala, Ameya Salvi, Venkat Krovi +1
Accurate state estimation requires careful consideration of uncertainty surrounding the process and measurement models; these characteristics are usually not well-known and need an…
Characterizing gaussian mixture of motion modes for skid-steer vehicle state estimation
Ameya Salvi, Mark Brudnak, Jonathon M. Smereka +2
Skid-steered wheel mobile robots (SSWMRs) are characterized by the unique domination of the tire-terrain skidding for the robot to move. The lack of reliable friction models cascad…
Digital Twins in the Cloud: A Modular, Scalable and Interoperable Framework for Accelerating Verification and Validation of Autonomous Driving Solutions
Tanmay Vilas Samak, Chinmay Vilas Samak, Giovanni Martino +2
Verification and validation (V&V) of autonomous vehicles (AVs) typically requires exhaustive testing across a variety of operating environments and driving scenarios including rare…