CARLA & Autonomous Driving Simulation

CARLA simulator for autonomous driving: town setup, vehicle control, sensor suite, traffic simulation, and ROS 2 bridge.

Learning Objectives

1. Introduction to CARLA

1.1 Architecture Overview

1.2 Installation (Docker & Build)

2. World & Maps

2.1 Built-in Towns

2.2 Custom Maps (RoadRunner)

3. Vehicle Control

3.1 Python API

3.2 Autopilot & Traffic Manager

4. Sensor Suite

4.1 Camera (RGB, Depth, Semantic)

4.2 LiDAR

4.3 Radar

5. Traffic & Pedestrian Simulation

6. Scenario Runner

7. ROS 2 Bridge

8. Other Driving Simulators (LGSVL, AirSim)

Exercises

References