A Self-Driving Car Architecture in ROS2. Reke, M., Peter, D., Schulte-Tigges, J., Schiffer, S., Ferrein, A., Walter, T., & Matheis, D. In 2020 International SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA Conference, pages 1–6, Jan, 2020.
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In this paper we report on an architecture for a self-driving car that is based on ROS2. Self-driving cars have to take decisions based on their sensory input in real-time, providing high reliability with a strong demand in functional safety. In principle, self-driving cars are robots. However, typical robot software, in general, and the previous version of the Robot Operating System (ROS), in particular, does not always meet these requirements. With the successor ROS2 the situation has changed and it might be considered as a solution for automated and autonomous driving. Existing robotic software based on ROS was not ready for safety critical applications like self-driving cars. We propose an architecture for using ROS2 for a self-driving car that enables safe and reliable real-time behaviour, but keeping the advantages of ROS such as a distributed architecture and standardised message types. First experiments with an automated real passenger car at lower and higher speed-levels show that our approach seems feasible for autonomous driving under the necessary real-time conditions.
@INPROCEEDINGS{ Reke-etAl_RobMech2020_Self-Driving-Car-Arch-ROS2,
  author       = {M. {Reke} and D. {Peter} and J. {Schulte-Tigges} and
                  S. {Schiffer} and A. {Ferrein} and T. {Walter} and
                  D. {Matheis}},
  booktitle    = {2020 International SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA Conference}, 
  title        = {A Self-Driving Car Architecture in {ROS2}}, 
  month        = {Jan},
  year         = {2020},
  pages        = {1--6},
  doi          = {10.1109/SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA48453.2020.9041020},
  url_IEEEXpl  = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9041020},
  ISBN         = {Electronic ISBN: 978-1-7281-4162-6, Print on Demand(PoD) ISBN: 978-1-7281-4163-3},
  keywords     = {ADP; UPNS4D; ARTUS; automobiles; control engineering
                  computing; mobile robots; safety-critical software;
                  autonomous driving; robotic software; self-driving
                  cars; automated real passenger car; self-driving car
                  architecture; Self-driving car; autonomous driving;
                  architecture; robot operating system; ROS; ROS2;
                  LKAS; V2X},
  abstract     = {In this paper we report on an architecture for a
                  self-driving car that is based on ROS2. Self-driving
                  cars have to take decisions based on their sensory
                  input in real-time, providing high reliability with
                  a strong demand in functional safety. In principle,
                  self-driving cars are robots. However, typical robot
                  software, in general, and the previous version of
                  the Robot Operating System (ROS), in particular,
                  does not always meet these requirements. With the
                  successor ROS2 the situation has changed and it
                  might be considered as a solution for automated and
                  autonomous driving. Existing robotic software based
                  on ROS was not ready for safety critical
                  applications like self-driving cars. We propose an
                  architecture for using ROS2 for a self-driving car
                  that enables safe and reliable real-time behaviour,
                  but keeping the advantages of ROS such as a
                  distributed architecture and standardised message
                  types. First experiments with an automated real
                  passenger car at lower and higher speed-levels show
                  that our approach seems feasible for autonomous
                  driving under the necessary real-time conditions.},
}

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