AVstack: An Open-Source, Reconfigurable Platform for Autonomous Vehicle Development
R. Spencer Hallyburton, Shucheng Zhang, Miroslav Pajic

TL;DR
AVstack is an open-source, flexible platform that facilitates autonomous vehicle development, testing, and analysis, addressing validation challenges and enabling advanced evaluations like vehicle-to-infrastructure and multi-agent collaboration.
Contribution
It introduces AVstack, a reconfigurable platform built on open-source components that enhances validation, flexibility, and comprehensive evaluation of autonomous vehicle systems.
Findings
Enables first-of-a-kind trade studies on datasets and simulators
Supports longitudinal testing across multiple benchmark datasets
Facilitates V2I-collaboration case studies for multi-sensor, multi-agent algorithms
Abstract
Pioneers of autonomous vehicles (AVs) promised to revolutionize the driving experience and driving safety. However, milestones in AVs have materialized slower than forecast. Two culprits are (1) the lack of verifiability of proposed state-of-the-art AV components, and (2) stagnation of pursuing next-level evaluations, e.g., vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and multi-agent collaboration. In part, progress has been hampered by: the large volume of software in AVs, the multiple disparate conventions, the difficulty of testing across datasets and simulators, and the inflexibility of state-of-the-art AV components. To address these challenges, we present AVstack, an open-source, reconfigurable software platform for AV design, implementation, test, and analysis. AVstack solves the validation problem by enabling first-of-a-kind trade studies on datasets and physics-based simulators. AVstack…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety · Transportation and Mobility Innovations · Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
