Free Course

Self-Driving Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo

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Baidu

Udacity x Baidu Apollo

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 weeks
Skill Level
beginner
Included in Product

Rich Learning ContentRich Learning Content

Interactive QuizzesInteractive Quizzes

Taught by Industry ProsTaught by Industry Pros

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Self-Driving Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo

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Course Leads

Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun

Instructor

David Silver

David Silver

Udacity Self-Driving Program Lead

Jingao Wang

Jingao Wang

Sr. Director，Apollo Platform

Jinghao Miao

Jinghao Miao

Sr.Engineering Manager, Apollo Platform

David Zhou

David Zhou

Head of Product, Apollo Platform

Ning Qu

Ning Qu

Chief Architect, Head of CarOS

Weide Zhang

Weide Zhang

Senior Architect, Apollo Platform

Kecheng Xu

Kecheng Xu

Software Engineer, Apollo Platform

Liangliang Zhang

Liangliang Zhang

Software Engineer, Apollo Platform

Qi Luo

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.

What do I get?
  • Instructor videos
  • Learn by doing exercises
  • Taught by industry professionals