The automotive software industry has always been synonymous for old compilers, out-dated toolchains and resource constraint hardware. “Only use something which has been proven in-use” most safety engineers would argue. In the past, in a distributed E/E-Architecture, this argument would apply because of a low number of independently functioning electronic control units (ECUs).
Our world is changing, and the change is visible everywhere. More than 50% of the population is living in cities and the cities are growing. More and more goods and people need to be transported, bringing the traffic infrastructure to its limits. Increasing pollution and noise levels bringing the environment to its limits.
To counter this, a transformation of the mobility is needed, who has already started, powered by new technologies and services. The mobility of the future will be electrified, connected, personalized, automated and software defined.
Learn how the open source community is coming together to support universities exploring high speed autonomous driving via racing including F1TENTH and Indy Autonomous Challenge #iac2021. Joe and Tom discuss the technical challenges this presents and how the open source community is rallying to help universities with this open source autonomous driving stack they can all use.
In the last few years, the "Robocar" community of enthusiasts that build autonomous scaled vehicles (mostly 1:10) has grown significantly and the level of functionality that is achieved is amazing. Many of these projects use ROS/Python and start with available open source platforms. At itemis, we decided to build our vehicle based on other technologies that we see in production at our customers, such as C++ and Eclipse hosted communication frameworks.
Work in the field of highly automated driving and autonomous mobility introduces a new complexity into the development of embedded systems in vehicles and requires many multi-faceted processes incorporating a variety of software tools. It is necessary to combine existing technologies with new technologies or new tools.
