We are a group of  6 students: Tobias Alldén, Martin Chemander, Sherry Davar, Jonathan Jansson, Rickard Laurenius and Philip Tibom. We have recently started our bachelor thesis project named “Generation and Processing of Lidar Data for Autonomous Vehicles” which will be ongoing during the entire spring 2017. At Chalmers Univeristy of Technology and University of Gothenburg.

The blog will be updated each week with posts explaining the current state of the project and discuss the different areas that are being worked on at these times.

Our goal is to create a simulator for lidar sensors that could be used to test how a real life lidar sensor would behave in different traffic conditions.  In order to help researchers and engineers to generate customized and realistic lidar data.

Velodyne High-Def LIDAR (Steve Jurvetson., 2009). CC2.0

The finished project will contain the following features:

  • A simulated urban environment with believable static and dynamic objects e.g. pedestrians, poles, buildings, vehicles, etc.
  • A simulated lidar sensor with scalable resolution for use on different hardware.
  • A user controlled, movable vehicle, on which the simulated lidar sensor is attached.
  • Possibility for the user to adjust and set up different custom scenarios. As in the possibility of placing pedestrians and other objects in the virtual environment.
  • Possibility to generate and export data collected by the lidar sensor.
  • Possibility to inspect the generated data with a visualization tool.

See you soon!

/ The Lidar Group