Simulation working group

The Simulation Working Group was established to lead the development of reference, integrated E2E simulation pipelines to be used in the advancement of Autoware Foundation

Working group leaders

• Adam Gotlib (Robotec.AI)
• Mete Fatih Cırıt (AWF)

Working group goals

The goals of the Simulation Working Group are:

1. Define the reference architecture for E2E simulation pipelines spanning scenario generation, simulation and safety assessment
2. Define open interfaces between various tools (e.g scenario generation and simulation) and solutions (e.g. map assets) for integration into E2E pipeline
3. Develop, document and apply reference E2E pipeline implementations to Autoware.Auto CI/CD
4. Define minimum performance metrics of tools and solutions to achieve required simulation accuracy
5. Application of safety metrics to continuously assess and improve AD safety
6. Application and optimization of E2E pipeline tools and solutions to efficiently utilize compute resources
7. Enable tracking and reporting of simulation results

Roadmap

• P1 (2025 Q2): Autoware integration with CARLA Latest Release / AWSIM Labs -> AWSIM sync
  • April 2025
    • Start review process for porting features from AWSIM Labs to AWSIM
    • Identify changes required to run Autoware with CARLA 0.10.0
  • May 2025
    • Latest Autoware working with AWSIM
    • Latest Autoware working with CARLA 0.10.0
    • New map for AWSIM Labs for vehicle gas/brake calibration: Flatlands
  • June 2025
    • Spawning of ego with Rviz ported to AWSIM
    • Spawning of NPCs with Rviz ported to AWSIM
• P2 (2025 Q3): PoV/Off-Road/LSA sim environment and vehicle models
  • July 2025
    • Define requirements for new environment(s) and vehicle model(s)
    • Evaluate potential to reuse existing assets / environments
    • Simulation environment for Privately-Owned Vehicle
  • August 2025
    • Simulation environment for Privately-Owned Vehicle (cont.)
  • September 2025
    • Simulation environment for Low-Speed Autonomy
    • Start Autoware evaluation with OpenDriveLabs Challenge
• P3 (2025 Q4): PoV/Off-Road/LSA sim environment and vehicle models
  • October 2025
    • Simulation environment for Low-Speed Autonomy (cont.)
  • November 2025
    • Simulation environment for Off-Road Vehicle
  • December 2025
    • Simulation environment for Off-Road Vehicle (cont.)
    • Continue Autoware Evaluation with OpenDriveLabs Challenge
• P4 (2026 Q1): Autoware to leaderboard of OpenDriveLabs Challenge (Autoware Universe) and support ODD WG in Verification/Testing
  • January 2026
    • Autoware Evaluation with OpenDriveLabs Challenge
    • Support ODD WG for verification pipeline with CARLA Simulator
  • February 2026
    • Autoware Evaluation with OpenDriveLabs Challenge
    • Support ODD WG for verification pipeline with CARLA Simulator
  • March 2026
    • Autoware Evaluation with OpenDriveLabs Challenge
    • Support ODD WG for verification pipeline with CARLA Simulator

Meeting minutes

• https://github.com/orgs/autowarefoundation/discussions/categories/working-group-meetings?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+category%3A%22Working+group+meetings%22+label%3Ameeting%3Asimulation-wg+sort%3Adate_created

How to participate

The Simulation Working Group announces its meetings on the Autoware Discord and Autoware Calendar. Simply join the meeting to participate.