2023-02-16 Racking Working Group Meeting

[QZJGeorge]

Attendees

• David Walmroth (Ann Arbor Autonomous Vehicle Group)
• AlbiM (Danlaw)
• Mitsudome-san (Tier.IV)
• Bonolo (Autoware)
• Zhijie Qiao (Autoware)
• Jack Silberman (UCSD)
• Christian John (Tier.IV)
• Haoru Xue (CMU)

Minutes: Zhijie (George) Qiao

Action Points

• Autonomous Karting Series (This is a completely new event, we can 100% control it)
  • https://autonomouskartingseries.com/
  • Date: May 15th - 19th, 2023
  • Location: Purdue University
  • Schools: UCSD, UPenn (Autoware CoE), GT, KSU, Berkeley (maybe), Purdue
  • Timed trials for this year (obstacle avoidance, fake | real)
  • Next year it will be head-to-head
  • Race control (act on a flag)
  • Everyone needs to demonstrate an emergency stop (on the condition of pressing a button or losing contact of a button). Need something -
    that’s in the range all the time for safety purposes (Airmax bullet ac to talk to infrastructure).
  • Figuring out the working space at Purdue (packing & maintenance)
  • Also the infrastructure at Purdue

Autoware Tutorial / Workshop

• https://2023.ieee-iv.org/tutorials/ (hands-on tutorial)
• https://2023.ieee-iv.org/workshops/
  • Various papers
  • Anyone implementation work with Autoware
  • More like a presentation
  • Simon has talked to Rahul
• Groups of interest?
• What do we do after the conference (some relaxation and fun)?
  • Hiking
  • Fishing
  • CJ can guide us
• Professor at University of Alaska wants some same presentation on campus
  • Still planning
  • Ask him if he wants to help (campus dorm)
• Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC)
  • Race June 16th - 18th
  • Demonstration style
  • Six cards parade over the audience
  • Then timed racing
  • Software: run Autoware Universe (modular deployment, particularly perception, lateral MPCs, stable at 70m/s in the simulation)
  • Last competition, Haoru’s team went 140 miles/hour.
  • Upstream the modules into the Autoware Universe?
    • Not much new developments?
    • Can try to figure out a way.
    • Progress discussion with Mitsudome-san.
• Upcoming Events/Plans
  • Bringing up the AKS | ICA events at the marketing WG
    • Sponsorship discussion
    • Autoware Auto used to be on the car, but now all the logos are gone
    • Head of the market WG is Samet (follow up with him)
• Other topics
  • CJ meeting setup with Amazon deep racer March 1st (with the head)
  • General discussion about bringing Autoware on the deep racer platform (current platform does not have enough performance)
  • They are setting a lab in Santa Clara (automotive focus)
    • Also a 1/10 scale race track for demonstration
    • Show customers all the technology and AWS
  • Instructional material for Autoware Foundation
    • CJ discussion with Rahul
    • CoEs different modules (perception, control, planning, simulation)
    • Students need time to ramp up on the Autoware Universe
    • Autoware online boot camp for all the CoEs and foundation members (cover the details of Autoware Universe, experts from Autoware, Tier IV, Leo Drive…)
    • Then, each university can take responsibility of one module
    • Meeting tomorrow 2/17 with UCLA (send out message to join)
    • UCSD CoE discussion

Action Items

• In the next Racing WG (03/02/2023), Bonolo can give a 20-30 minute training on Public Relations (PR).