What sensors to use on full size SDC?

[mslavescu]

Contribute ideas, articles, projects that would help select best sensors for different configurations of SDCs.
Best ideas will be integrated in the OSSDC Hacking Book.
We prefer affordable sensors that can be used in open source projects.
Here you can see what kind of sensors we will need:
https://slides.com/mslavescu/self-driving-cars/

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Three Sensor Types Drive Autonomous Vehicles
https://www.sensorsmag.com/components/three-sensor-types-drive-autonomous-vehicles

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See ideas collected here, about LIDAR simulation:
OSSDC/OSSDC-VisionBasedACC#16

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Cameras: The Eyes of Autonomous Vehicles
https://sites.tufts.edu/jquinn/2017/10/10/cameras-the-eyes-of-autonomous-vehicles/

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An Introduction to LIDAR: The Key Self-Driving Car Sensor

https://news.voyage.auto/an-introduction-to-lidar-the-key-self-driving-car-sensor-a7e405590cff

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A Coherent Vision for Autonomous Vehicle Sensors
https://www.neophotonics.com/sensors-for-autonomous-driving/

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LiDAR vs. RADAR | Sensors Magazine
https://www.sensorsmag.com/components/lidar-vs-radar

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Autonomous Vehicles and Their Sensors

https://www.azosensors.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1250

See also the sources, at the end of the article.

[mslavescu]

What sensors do driverless cars have?
https://www.quora.com/What-sensors-do-driverless-cars-have

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Sensors for autonomous vehicles
http://www8.cs.umu.se/kurser/5DV029/HT09/handouts/Sensors%20for%20autonomous%20vehicles%20.pdf

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Infrared Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles
https://www.intechopen.com/books/recent-development-in-optoelectronic-devices/infrared-sensors-for-autonomous-vehicles

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360° Sensors give autonomous cars vision
http://writingaboutcars.com/360-sensors-give-autonomous-cars-vision/

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Introducing the VoyageG2 Autonomous Vehicle
https://news.voyage.auto/introducing-the-voyage-g2-autonomous-vehicle-5e15cca399b5

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Sensors Map the Path to Fully Autonomous Vehicles - Novus Light Today
https://www.novuslight.com/sensors-map-the-path-to-fully-autonomous-vehicles_N8401.html

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RoboSense LIDAR
http://www.robosense.ai/

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The Autoware Foundation 
https://www.autoware.org/

Autoware.IO

The Autoware Foundation has an impressive list of founding members, including RoboSense, Tier IV, Linaro/96Boards, Apex.AI, ARM, AutoCore, AutonomouStuff, eSOL, Intel Labs, Huawei/HiSilicon, Kalray, LG Electronics, Nagoya University, Open Robotics, Parkopedia, SEMI Japan, SiFive/RISC-V Foundation, StreetDrone, Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Velodyne LiDAR, and Xilinx.

[mslavescu]

Check sensors used here:

GTC 2018: Learning Steering for Parallel Autonomy. Alexander Amini
https://youtu.be/CY-F9zHtbX4

[sreegowthamj]

This graphic is pretty good. It explains the design for Tesla Autopilot 2.0 and Mercedes E Class - https://i.redd.it/47ezobni6atx.png
source - https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/590gjm/sensor_suite_hardware_tesla_autopilot_20_vs/

Tesla's Autopilot 1: 1 radar, 1 camera, 12 sonar
2017 E-Class: 8 radars, 5 cameras, 12 sonar
Tesla's Autopilot 2: 1 radar, 8 cameras, 12 sonar

[sreegowthamj]

One case study with Point Grey cameras - https://www.ptgrey.com/case-study/id/10393
Done in 2009.

[mslavescu]

From WaveLab SDC team from Waterloo University Canada:

Graph SLAM with Clearpath Husky and Velodyne VLP-16s
https://youtu.be/Iik81MzWFjk
Published on Dec 5, 2018

This video shows some results of the Graph SLAM implemented with GTSAM on a point cloud dataset collected using a Clearpath Husky UGV and two Velodyne VLP-16 lidars.