Articles

>> January, 2019: LG Silicon Valley Lab has developed a Unity-based multi-robot simulator for autonomous vehicle developers - LGSVL Simulator. It currently has integration with the TierIV's Autoware, and Baidu's Apollo platforms and can generate HD maps. Click to check details. Click to watch video.

>> January, 2019: Unity Technologies announced a collaboration with Baidu Inc. to develop a real-time simulation product that creates virtual environments allowing developers to test autonomous vehicles in simulated real-world situations. The Unity-based real-time simulation will now be available to developers taking part in Baidu’s Apollo platform. Click to check details. Click to watch video.

>> January, 2019: Waymo v Tesla: a battle for data Click to check details.

>> January, 2019: Waymo’s CEO, John Krafcik, now admits that the “level 5” autonomous vehicle - will never exist. Click to check details.

>> August, 2018: What's new with Apollo 3.0. Click to check details.

>> July, 2018: Who’s Winning the Self-Driving Car Race? A scorecard breaking down everyone from Alphabet’s Waymo to Zoox. Click to check details.

>> May, 2018: Uber’s semi-autonomous car detected the pedestrian six seconds before the fatal crash, a federal agency says. Click to check details.

>> May, 2018: Intel and Mobileye - a fully autonomous car using only cameras + a built-in car's aggression. Click to check details.

>> May, 2018: Deep Dive on Apollo 2.5. More details on the new release of Apollo Baidu. Click to check details.

>> May, 2018: For self-driving cars, car washes are a nightmare. Click to check details.

>> May, 2018: BMW's solid-state LiDAR offers a glimpse of the future of autonomous vehicles. Click to check details.

>> April, 2018: Jaguar I-PACE: Waymo and Jaguar new autonomous car. Click to check details.

>> April, 2018: Baidu Unveils Apollo 2.5, the Newest Upgrade to its Autonomous Driving Open Platform. Click to check details.

>> April, 2018: The backup system for autonomous vehicles. When self-driving cars get confused, the company's trained drivers remotely take over the automobile until the self-driving system can regain control. Click to check details.

>> February, 2018: 73 Mind-Blowing Implications of Driverless Cars and Trucks. Click to check details.

>> February, 2018: Photorealistic City Streets in Unreal Engine for AI Training. 5 people working 6 weeks to create the 3D model of 500 meters road. Click to check details.

Simulators

>> May, 2018: Comparison: Visualization and Simulation for ADAS and Autonomous Driving. Click to check details.

>> March, 2018: rFpro simulator - Environment for the development, training, testing and validation of deep learning autonomous driving system. Click to check details.

Sensors Simulation

>> July, 2018:VELODYNE LIDAR VLP32C User Manual. Click to check details.

>> May, 2018:Lidar Simulation for Robotic ApplicationClick to check details.

>> May, 2018:sensor fusionClick to check details.

>> May, 2018:ROS and UnityClick to check details.

>> May, 2018:sensor modeling for the virtual autonomous navigation environmentClick to check details.

>> May, 2018:simulation of 3D laser radar systemsClick to check details.

>> May, 2018:virtual generation of lidar dataClick to check details.

>> May, 2018:ADAS sensorsClick to check details.

Autonomous Vehicles

>> September, 2018: Autoware on Board: Enabling Autonomous Vehicles with Embedded Systems. An article which describe Autoware system in details. This article is available on UB Library web site Click to check details.

>> September, 2017: Autoware - open-source software for urban self-driving mobility, empowered by ROS. It provides complete modules of perception, decision making, and control, which enables drive-by-wire vehicles to drive autonomously in public road environments. The current maintainer of Autoware is Tier IV, a Japanese academic startup company comprising professors and students. Click to watch video.

>> June, 2017: Baidu Apollo - an open autonomous driving platform. It is a flexible architecture which supports fully autonomous driving capabilities. Click to check details.

>> June, 2017: Openpilot is an open source driving agent. Currently it performs the functions of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) for Hondas, Acuras and Toyotas. Click to check details.

Programming

>> March, 2018: Siemens ROS# - a set of free software libraries and tools in C# for communicating with ROS from .NET applications, in particular Unity. Click to check details.

>> December, 2017: How to Start with Self-Driving Cars Using ROS. Click to check details.

>> November, 2017: A Velodyne LIDAR VLP 16 sensor running in Unity and shown in ROS. Click to watch a video.

>> July, 2017: Implementation of a Lidar in Unity. Click to check details.

iCAVE2 Meetings

>> July, 2018: ROS - An introduction and overview of Robotics Middleware system - Raj and Srinivasd. Click to check details.

>> July, 2018: 3D Modeling using sensors and SLAM - Raj and Srinivas. Click to check details.

Testing, Assessment

>> May, 2018: US start-up Voyage created an Open Autonomous Safety - a fully open-source library of internal safety procedures, materials, and test code designed to supplement existing safety programs at autonomous vehicle startups across the world. Click to check details.

Courses (free)

>> July, 2018: Udacity X Apollo Free Self-driving Intro Course. Click to check details.

>> January, 2018: MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars. Click to check details.

>> January, 2018: Udacity - Programming a Robotic Car. Click to check details.

HD Maps

>> November, 2018:Mapping the Future Click to check details.

>> July, 2018: Introduction to HD Maps Click to check details.

>> May, 2018: Simple introduction to Waymo HD Maps Click to check details.

>> July, 2018: Civil Maps. Different approach to HD Maps Click to check details.

>> August, 2018: NDT Matching - localization algorithm in Autoware Click to check details.

iCAVE2 Source code

>> May, 2018: Source code at GitHub: https://github.com/ub-mri