Vilas Chitrakaran
Principal Roboticist Software Team Lead Mobile Robotics at ALL3
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVilas Chitrakaran is a Principal Roboticist and software team lead with 13 years of industry experience building mobile robotics, autonomy, and manipulation systems for challenging real-world environments. He has led software architecture and teams at Arrival and ALL3 to deliver fleet-scale, distributed control for industrial mobile robots and has driven autonomy and localisation advances at Dyson and Guidance Automation. His background combines a PhD in nonlinear control with hands-on systems and vision work dating back to research at Clemson and product development for continuum manipulators at OC Robotics. Known for turning academic rigor into practical, safety-conscious products, he excels at integrating perception, control and fleet orchestration into robust production systems. Based in London, he thrives on complex robotics problems where software defines hardware capability, and he often bridges research, prototyping and scalable engineering delivery. An understated strength is his track record of nurturing cross-functional teams to maintain agility while delivering software-defined manufacturing solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Focus: Nonlinear control systems), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Focus: Nonlinear control systems) at Clemson UniversityB.Eng. Electrical and Electronics, B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics at University of MadrasSelf Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Russian
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Github Skills (94)
client-server10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
cpp10
middleware10
robotics10
intel10
ipc10
sdk10
computer-vision10
payment-methods10
raycasting10
interprocess-communication10
camera-api10
viewer10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cvilas/qmath
Oct 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
cvilas/grape
Jun 2018 - Apr 2025
Distributed control loop and data visualisation
Contributions:6 reviews, 219 PRs, 1541 pushes in 6 years 11 months
visualisationloopdata-visualisationdistributed-systemsdistributed-control
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