LG's Open Source Autonomous Driving Simulator

Autonomous Vehicles are in the news every day but there is still a long road ahead for the companies working on them. Autonomous Vehicle (AV) simulation will play a huge role in the testing and certification of AV technology and is also a critical engineering tool used in the daily development and testing of AV technology. Professional but proprietary automotive simulation tools can cost $100,000 USD, and while open source simulators are also available, most have limited functionality and require a great deal of custom programming in order to integrate them with autonomous driving software.

The LGSVL Simulator changes all of that. Designed and built by autonomous engineers in LG’s Silicon Valley Lab, the LGSVL Simulator has built-in support for popular open source AV software stacks like Autoware and Apollo, and with ROS and ROS2 support, it can easily integrate with other proprietary driving software. In addition, it’s free and because it’s open source it’s easy for engineers to adopt and extend it for their own needs, rather than starting from scratch to build their own.

Come and visit LG’s Silicon Valley Lab to find out how the LGSVL Simulator supports the development and testing of autonomous driving software, see a live demonstration, and meet members of the team who built it.

About the speaker:

Steve Lemke is a principal engineer with the Advanced Automotive Platforms team at the Silicon Valley Lab of LG’s America R&D Center. Steve works with several open source autonomous and automotive platform projects at LG including the LGSVL Autonomous Driving Simulator, WebOS Open Source Edition, and Automotive Grade Linux. He recently led efforts to bring together various projects from advanced user interface to 3D automotive and autonomous simulation as well as connected car cloud services to create automotive demos which were featured in the AGL Demo Showcase at CES 2018 and 2019. Prior to that he spent a decade building and supporting the web OS platform, and another decade before that building developer tools for the Palm OS platform.

Location is at the LG Silicon Valley Lab, they will be graciously hosting us! Please enter on the back side of the building. The site address is 5150 Great America but the building is actually 5155 Old Ironsides Drive.

The door to the building and meeting room is at the base of the red pin as shown in this map:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B024'17.3%22N+121%C2%B058'43.7%22W/@37.404804,-121.9788,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d37.404804!4d-121.9788

Agenda:
6:00 pm - Doors open
6:30 pm - Presentation
8:00 pm - Vacate premises