AUTOWARE: What, How & Where?
Summary
Founded in 2015 at Nagoya University in Japan, Autoware is an open-source software for autonomous vehicles and embedded systems providing a complete set of self-driving modules, including localization, detection, prediction, planning, and control. Autoware.AI is the original project built on ROS 1, launched as a R&D platform for autonomous driving technologies with the intention to be sufficient for SAE level 3/4. It is important to highlight that Autoware is designed for urban cities, but that highways and freeways can also be covered; however it will require additional modules. To achieve real-time processing, Autoware filters and pre-processes the raw point cloud data obtained from the LiDAR scanners. An essential component of any AV, it uses sensor data and 3D maps so the vehicle can compute the final trajectory and communicate with the actuation modules.
