Vimal Kumar A R

Ph.D. Scholar, IIT Madras

E-mail - vimal1393@gmail.com

Research interests: Sensing, Estimation and Control, Vehicle Dynamics

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering Design
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
July 2016 - till date
Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile Engineering
Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
August 2010 - June 2014

Work Experience

Engineer, Turbo Energy Ltd. (2014-2015)

Administative Officer, National Insurance Co. Ltd (2015-2016)

Publications

Vimal Kumar, S. C. Subramanian, and R. Rajamani, “Vehicle Tracking for Heavy Vehicle Collision Avoidance with an Economical Solid-State Laser Sensor”, Accepted, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Auckland, New Zealand 2019.

My Research

Design of Collision Avoidance Systems for Heavy Trucks using an Inexpensive Lidar

The focus of my work is on developing Collision Avoidance Systems for Heavy Trucks using an inexpensive solid state lidar sensor with low spatial resolution for sensing the environment. The challenge here is to track road vehicles with a sensor that has low spatial resolution. Detection, Data Association and Tracking algorithms that make sense out of the limited data provided by the sensor are being developed as a part of this work. Further, Collision Avoidance Systems that can handle the unique dynamic aspects of heavy trucks will be developed.

This work could potentially help to accelerate the commercialization of Collision Avoidance Systems for heavy trucks by enabling the use of inexpensive sensors. This can be beneficial especially for cost-sensitive Indian markets.