Bridging the Gap between Open Source Software and Vehicle Hardware for Autonomous Driving

Although many research vehicle platforms for autonomous driving have been built in the past, hardware design, source code and lessons learned have not been made available for the next generation of demonstrators. This raises the efforts for the research community to contribute results based on real-...

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Main Authors: Kessler, Tobias, Bernhard, Julian, Buechel, Martin, Esterle, Klemens, Hart, Patrick, Malovetz, Daniel, Truong Le, Michael, Diehl, Frederik, Brunner, Thomas, Knoll, Alois
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Autonomous vehicles
Cameras
Computer architecture
Hardware
Production
Real-time systems
Software
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Summary:Although many research vehicle platforms for autonomous driving have been built in the past, hardware design, source code and lessons learned have not been made available for the next generation of demonstrators. This raises the efforts for the research community to contribute results based on real-world evaluations as engineering knowledge of building and maintaining a research vehicle is lost. In this paper, we deliver an analysis of our approach to transferring an open source driving stack to a research vehicle. We put the hardware and software setup in context to other demonstrators and explain the criteria that led to our chosen hardware and software design. Specifically, we discuss the mapping of the Apollo driving stack to the system layout of our research vehicle, fortuna, including communication with the actuators by a controller running on a real-time hardware platform and the integration of the sensor setup. With our collection of the lessons learned, we encourage a faster setup of such systems by other research groups in the future.
ISSN:2642-7214
DOI:10.1109/IVS.2019.8813784