Free Course
Self-Driving Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo
by
Udacity x Baidu Apollo
Nanodegree Program
Intro to Self-Driving Cars
Accelerate your career with the credential that fast-tracks you to job success.
About this Course
Through this course, you will be able to identify key parts of self-driving cars and get to know Apollo architecture. You will be able to utilize Apollo HD Map, localization, perception, prediction, planning and control, and start the learning path of building a self-driving car.
Course Cost
Free
Timeline
Approx. 4 week
Skill Level
Beginner
Included in Product
Rich Learning Content
Interactive Quizzes
Taught by Industry Pros
Self-Paced Learning
Student Support Community
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This course is your first step towards a new career with the Intro to Self-Driving Cars Program.
Free Course
Self-Driving Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo
Enhance your skill set and boost your hirability through innovative, independent learning.
Course Leads
Sebastian Thrun
Udacity Founder & President
David Silver
Udacity Self-Driving Program Lead
Jingao Wang
Sr. Director，Apollo Platform
Jinghao Miao
Sr.Engineering Manager, Apollo Platform
David Zhou
Head of Product, Apollo Platform
Ning Qu
Chief Architect, Head of CarOS
Weide Zhang
Senior Architect, Apollo Platform
Kecheng Xu
Software Engineer, Apollo Platform
Liangliang Zhang
Software Engineer, Apollo Platform
Qi Luo
Software Engineer, Apollo Platform
What You Will Learn
lesson 1
Self-Driving Overview
- Identify key parts of self-driving cars, and get to know Apollo team and architecture.
lesson 2
HD Map
- Get to know how high-definition maps work, which underpin almost every other part of the software stack.
lesson 3
Localization
- Practice Mock Interviews with Pramp!
lesson 4
Perception
- Identify different perception tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation and learning convolutional neural networks which are critical to perception.
lesson 5
Prediction
- Study different ways to predict how other vehicles or pedestrians might move in Apollo self-driving cars.
lesson 6
Planning
- Identify several different approaches Apollo uses to develop trajectories for autonomous vehicles.
lesson 7
Control
- Understand how to use steering, throttle, and brake to execute our planned trajectory and master different types of controllers in Apollo.
lesson 8
Congratulations
- Once completed, you’ll be provided with suggestions for future learning to pursue a self-driving car engineering career.
Prerequisites and Requirements
No prerequisite. Anyone who is interested in the basics of self-driving cars without any programming or mathematical background is free to be enrolled.
See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.
Why Take This Course
Apollo provides an open software platform for anyone to build their own autonomous driving systems. Throughout this course, you will master the basics of self-driving cars without any programming background, and get to access and use Apollo platform easily.