Eclipse SDV Hackathon on BCX2022

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Welcome to the OpenStreepMap 🗺️ and CARLA 🚗 hack challenge!

Your goal is to Drive a vehicle, any route of planet earth in a simulation environment. The use case:

As a SDV developer I want to put my software into a car that drives any specific route in any specific city with an effort comparable programming a navigation system like google maps.

As a hack challenge for Eclipse SDV, it's a good use case to try out the involved technology and experience some of the challenges infusing real world data into a virtual world. And bringing a real world use case into a simulator.

In this hack challenge, you can

• show how real world data can be brought into a virtual world running on a simulator
• show how vehicle can navigate from A to B in a virtual world using technology and experience from open source projects
• combine exciting open source technology from geographic data, routing engines, simulators and automotive

The rough plan is to extract a city from OSM, convert into importable format for the simulator (provided by the simulator). A route on the imported virtual world is created and navigation steps from a routing engine navigates a virtual vehicle on the fastest way in the virtual world.

Validate the results by visualizing them with metrics from the vehicle and the simulator. If you wanna do a website showing it, do it :).

It's up to your hack team's creativity.

Hint: There are already several open source projects with good information and ideas

Your hack team should have the following skills

• Some development skills in the programming language Python would be necessary to interfacing with APIs
• Besides from that, a Hacker would only need a notebook:
  • Windows (10 or 11)
  • Ubuntu (18.04 or newer)
  • Mac OS
• Network-Interface
  • ethernet port (1 Gbit)
  • wifi
• Remote instances with a graphics card running the simulator are provided
• To run the simulator locally on your machine a dedicated graphics is required
  • According to CARLA documentation CARLA aims for realistic simulations, so the server needs at least a 6 GB, but reducing the rendering resolution and quality settings allows also graphic cards with less memory (2-3GB)

Step 1 - Setting up development environment and making first contact with CARLA

Step 2 - Investigate data export from OpenStreetMap and import in CARLA

Step 3 - Familiarize with CARLA to understand the concept of an Actor

Step 4 - Investigate how to create a route using OSMR

Step 5 - Implement, test, and run your "virtual Uber service"

Happy hacking!