One Stack to Rule them All: To Drive Automated Vehicles, and Reach for the 4th level
<|reference_start|>One Stack to Rule them All: To Drive Automated Vehicles, and Reach for the 4th level: Most automated driving functions are designed for a specific task or vehicle. Most often, the underlying architecture is fixed to specific algorithms to increase performance. Therefore, it is not possible to deploy new modules and algorithms easily. In this paper, we present our automated driving stack which combines both scalability and adaptability. Due to the modular design, our stack allows for a fast integration and testing of novel and state-of-the-art research approaches. Furthermore, it is flexible to be used for our different testing vehicles, including modified EasyMile EZ10 shuttles and different passenger cars. These vehicles differ in multiple ways, e.g. sensor setups, control systems, maximum speed, or steering angle limitations. Finally, our stack is deployed in real world environments, including passenger transport in urban areas. Our stack includes all components needed for operating an autonomous vehicle, including localization, perception, planning, controller, and additional safety modules. Our stack is developed, tested, and evaluated in real world traffic in multiple test sites, including the Test Area Autonomous Driving Baden-W\"urttemberg.<|reference_end|>
@article{ochs2024one,
    title={One Stack to Rule them All: To Drive Automated Vehicles, and Reach for
  the 4th level},
    author={Sven Ochs, Jens Doll, Daniel Grimm, Tobias Fleck, Marc Heinrich,
  Stefan Orf, Albert Schotschneider, Helen Gremmelmaier, Rupert Polley,
  Svetlana Pavlitska, Maximilian Zipfl, Helen Schneider, Ferdinand M"utsch,
  Daniel Bogdoll, Florian Kuhnt, Philip Sch"orner, Marc Ren'e Zofka, J.
  Marius Z"ollner},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02645},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.02645},
    primaryClass={cs.RO}
}