Reference Design WG Meeting (07/19/2023)

[chishengshih]

Date: 2023-07-19

Time: 14:00 (UTC)

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Administrative

• Previous meeting minutes
• Reference Design project board
• Reference Design Roadmap

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Participants:

• Daniel Shih (Tier4/NTU)
• Stephen Li (AutoCore)
• Rahul Razdan (Razdan Research Institute)
• Mahesh Menase
• Simon Teng (ARM)
• Jason Lee (ARM)
• Eddie Liu (ADLink)
• ChenYing Kuo (ADLink):
• Yoshihito Takashima (Tier IV)
• Paul Yeh (Tier IV)
• Armagan Arslan (Hardware/Opening AD Kit WG)
• David Walmroth (Opening AD Kit WG)
• Chetan (Marvel)
• David Cole (DanLaw)
• Ryohsuke Mitsudome (Tier4)
• William Yuankai He: (Detrio, MI, Uni. of Delaware (soon))
• Markus Schratter (Virtual Vehicles Research, Austria)
• Abinesh L (DanLaw)
• Lucaus Xingang Liu (Autocore)
• Gernot Heiser (seL4)
• Nilay Sener
• Mark Jin (PixMoving)
• Rohit Damodar (DanLaw)
• Tomonori Kaneko (eSol)
• Akihiko Tsukuda (eSol)
• CJ (Tier4)
• Bonolo

Agenda:

• Introduction of New Members
• Outstanding action items review
• Porting Autoware.universe to ORIN Jetson (Rohit@DANLAW)
• Transfer HW WG document to Reference Design WG (Armagan)
• eSol Presentation (postponed to August 2nd)
• Roadmap discussion

Outstanding Action Items from last meeting:

• add chassis as an optional column
• add combination/roles of the computing platforms
• Guideline to set up the reference platform to be a separate section: Rahul, Markus, Laucus, Hiroshi
• David Cole on porting Autoware.universe on Orin Jatson
• Procedure for testing should be added (From David Walmroth)
• @ALL Please update the wiki for reference platforms and sensors. Request the permission to edit (Email [email protected] or drop a line on discord.)
• Change to zoom for meeting.

Meeting Notes:

Action Items:

• seL4 for Autonomous Vehicles
• Add the chassis and computing platform used by Macau U of Science ＆ Technology. (Lucuas from Autocore)
• ITRI Presentation
• eSol Presentation

[chishengshih]

Meeting Notes:

• Adding Racing car to reference platform

• testing and standard. E.g., Rahul form FP

• Tier4 releases Level 4 guideline:

  • Announcement
  • English Version here

• Rohit from DanLaw: slide

  • Autonomous Driving Stack on Jetson Orin platform
  • HW + SW Stack
  • Support LiDAR on Jetson: VLP-16
  • Ublox deadreckoning GNSS+IMU - ROS2
  • Remote monitoring and control on a local network: wired network. Are working on wireless dedicated network.
  • Challenges:
    • Jetson only support Ubuntu 20, which is not compatible with Autoware.universe. Docker is used.
    • Cannot use lidar_centerpoint due to GPU driver on Jetson, using 'lidar_centerpoint_tvm'
    • Contact [email protected] for more information.

• pr-405: link

  • Prefer not having PDF document to edit/test.