The Open AD Kit is a collaborative project developed by the Autoware Foundation and its member companies and alliance partners. It aims to bring software-defined best practices to the Autoware project and to enhance the Autoware ecosystem and capabilities by partnering with other organizations that share the goal of creating software-defined vehicles.
The Open AD Kit utilizes Autoware components, which are built using the [ROS2 framework](https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/index.html. ROS2, with its nodes architecture, provides the foundation for having distinct functional containerized runtime modules. Open AD Kit can also communicate with other containerized applications to support various functionalities, such as providing a bi-directional data pipeline and providing up-to-date maps to be consumed within the Open AD Kit application.
To demonstrate Open AD Kit's modularity and convenience for the easy process of managing and updating distinct AD containers with OTA-enabled architecture, the planning stack of the Autoware will be deployed, managed, and updated. The reference diagram can be found as:
For the simulation environment TierIV's Web.Auto platform is used, the platform itself capable of running multiple scenarios at once to validate the functional safety of the algorithms in the cloud.
As a cloud service provider, Amazon Web Services is used both as a base cloud environment and for the virtual vehicle setup which is used to emulate the edge environment. AWS EC2's equipped with the ARM Neoverse N1 architecture that has the full ISA parity with the edge platform.
Open AD Kit is also capable of getting OTA updates by using eSync Alliance's technology. eSync is a secure, scalable, and reliable OTA update solution that can be used to update the Open AD Kit application and its dependencies. eSync is also capable of updating the Open AD Kit application and its dependencies on the fly, which means that the Open AD Kit application can be updated without having to restart the vehicle.
The demo built upon the AADP from ADLINK, which is a high-performance, high-density, and high-reliability ARM Neoverse N1-based server carrier board. Both AVA Developer Platform and EWAOL lays the foundation for the Open AD Kit to be deployed as a lightweight and scalable software-defined vehicle platform.
To run the containers on the target machine in this case AADP platform or an EC2-Graviton instance
docker/autoware-openadk/run-containers.shTo visualize the simulation on a remote platform which is on the same network with the target machine Run:
docker/autoware-openadk/run-visualizer.shTo build the target container images from scratch Run:
docker/autoware-openadk/build-containers.shTo build the visualizer container image from scratch Run:
docker/autoware-openadk/build-visualizer.shTo learn more technical details about Autoware,SOAFEE refer to the Autoware documentation site, SOAFEE documentation site.