Open ADKit Working Group Meeting 18/07/2024

[oguzkaganozt]

Administrative

Open AD Kit Project Board
Latest Open AD Kit Documentation - updating

Attendees

Chaired by David Walmroth (PIX Moving) and Oğuz Öztürk (Leo Drive)

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• Oğuz Öztürk (MC)
• David Walmroth
• Ryohsuke Mitsudome
• Samet Kütük
• Esteve Fernandez
• Bonolo
• Hiroshi Igata
• Alex Carballo
• Yutaka Kondo

Agenda

DevOps Dojos: Build/Run: Open AD Kit Modular Images

- Agenda item maintainers: @oguzkaganozt , @youtalk

• New discussion around modular containers
• What about previous modular containers (planning, perception, simulator, visualizer) that has been used within demos ?

DevOps Dojos: Ros Node Configuration Updates

- Agenda item maintainers: @kaspermeck-arm
Spreadsheet for node updates
Call for volunteers
Step-by-step Documentation
Step-by-step Video Tutorial

• Re-arrangement of the spreadsheet

Technical Optimizations for Container Management

- Agenda item maintainers: @youtalk , @oguzkaganozt

• Enable docker caching for docker builds
• Re-working dependencies to reduce the size of the containers and for making maintenance easier
  • The list of Top 25 ROS nodes that includes most <depend> tags
  • Last years's huge PR related -> build: remove unused <depend> in package.xml files autoware.universe#3606
  • Example of the motivation

Performance Analysis of Modular Containers

- Agenda item maintainers: @batuhanbeytekin, @oguzkaganozt, @brkay54

• https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/5012
• Replicating similar performance tests of TUM paper by using perception and planning containers @oguzkaganozt
• Performance analysis by using Reaction Analyzer @batuhanbeytekin

Open AD Kit Bugs & Feature Requests

- Agenda item maintainers: @idorobotics, @oguzkaganozt

• Assess open-ad-kit related bugs, issues or feature requests from community channels (github, discord, or other platforms)
  • A CUDA bug will be resolved with this PR
  • A documentation bug will be resolved with this PR

2024 Demo Planning and Activities: AutoTech Detroit 2024 Wrap up

- Agenda item maintainers: @HamburgDave, @samet-kutuk

• AutoTech Detroit (June 5-6): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UD_0tIhRgfjmQami1nyKxh5feY5TGre4YTOAG1AZWik/edit?usp=sharing
• (Potential) AVTE California / Aug 28-29
• (Potential) IEEE ITSC / Sep 24-27
• (Potential) IROS 2024 / Oct 14-18
• (Potential) ROSCon / Oct 21-23

RViz Visualization by using WebRTC

- Agenda item maintainers: @oguzkaganozt, @kaspermeck-arm, @esteve

• Assess the strengths and weaknesses of using Ros bridge and rvizweb
• https://github.com/RobotWebTools/webrtc_ros
• https://github.com/pgaston/teleopros2/tree/main
• https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc
• Jeremy from Amazon has shown interest in the subject with AWS Kinesis
• Reconnect with Jeremy (AWS) to help us bootstrap this

Active pursuit to find more collaborators for the Open AD Kit WG

- Agenda item maintainers: @samet-kutuk, @HamburgDave

• Outreach to external collaborators
  • Talking to VicOne (a member) on a use case to incorporate their IDPS (Intrusion Detection and Prevention System) with the Open AD Kit
  • Talking to EPAM Systems on the general architectures of SDV and understanding load balancing of automotive workloads in heterogeneous computing.
  • Talking to TUM on their PoC work on massive Autoware containerization
    • They are open-sourcing their study and work (performance analysis of containerized Autoware workloads)
    • They will be able to present their work soon at the Open AD Kit WG

Open AD Kit Hardware Availability

- Agenda item maintainers: @HamburgDave, @samet-kutuk

• ADLINK presented their autonomy HW lineup in Ref. Des. WG. BSP does not yet support Yocto(?).
• AADP: Allocating all available units around the world
• 7Starlake: we heard that some eval units can be made available for testing
• Reach out to Joe Speed for 7starlake eval units (BSP/Yocto question pending).

[youtalk]

I would like to discuss about the tag naming conventions and the container image slim down.

• https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/4995
• https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/5007

[youtalk]

I'm sorry but I'm going to sleep today...

[oguzkaganozt]

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