Self-Driving Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo (Udacity)

Offered by Udacity, Apollo Platform, Baidu,
Self-Driving Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo (Udacity)

Through this course, you will be able to identify key parts of self-driving cars and get to know Apollo architecture. You will be able to utilize Apollo HD Map, localization, perception, prediction, planning and control, and start the learning path of building a self-driving car.

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Apollo provides an open software platform for anyone to build their own autonomous driving systems. Throughout this course, you will master the basics of self-driving cars without any programming background, and get to access and use Apollo platform easily.

What You Will Learn

Lesson 1
Self-Driving Overview

  • Identify key parts of self-driving cars and get to know Apollo team and architecture.

Lesson 2
HD Map

  • Get to know how high-definition maps work which underpin almost every other part of the software stack.

Lesson 3
Localization

  • Practice Mock Interviews with Pramp!

Lesson 4
Perception

  • Identify different perception tasks such as classification detection and segmentation and learning convolutional neural networks which are critical to perception.

Lesson 5
Prediction

  • Study different ways to predict how other vehicles or pedestrians might move in Apollo self-driving cars.

Lesson 6
Planning

  • Identify several different approaches Apollo uses to develop trajectories for autonomous vehicles.

Lesson 7
Control

  • Understand how to use steering throttle and brake to execute our planned trajectory and master different types of controllers in Apollo.

Lesson 8
Congratulations

  • Once completed you’ll be provided with suggestions for future learning to pursue a self-driving car engineering career.

Prerequisites and Requirements
No prerequisite. Anyone who is interested in the basics of self-driving cars without any programming or mathematical background is free to be enrolled.

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