Lesson 1
Welcome to SDC Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo
Identify the key parts of self-driving cars, and get to know the Apollo team and architecture.
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Self-Driving Car Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo
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Identify key parts of self-driving cars, utilize Apollo HD Map, localization, perception, prediction, planning and control, and start the learning path of building a self-driving car.
Identify key parts of self-driving cars, utilize Apollo HD Map, localization, perception, prediction, planning and control, and start the learning path of building a self-driving car.
Last Updated March 7, 2022
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Course Lessons
Lesson 2
HD Maps
High-definition maps underpin almost every other part of the software stack. Learn how these maps work!
Lesson 3
Localization
Learn how the vehicle localizes itself with single-digit-centimeter-level accuracy.
Lesson 4
Perception
Identify different perception tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. Also, learn about convolutional neural networks, which are critical to perception.
Lesson 5
Prediction
Study different ways to predict how other vehicles or pedestrians might interact with 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
Congratulations on completing the course! Here, you'll receive some suggestions for future learning to pursue a self-driving car engineering career.
Taught By The Best
Sebastian Thrun
Founder and Executive Chairman, Udacity
As the Founder and Chairman of Udacity, Sebastian's mission is to democratize education by providing lifelong learning to millions of students worldwide. He is also the founder of Google X, where he led projects including the Self-Driving Car, Google Glass, and more.
David Silver
Staff Software Engineer at Kodiak Robotics
David works on Self-driving trucks at Kodiak. As a Staff Software Engineer, David writes planning, control, simulation and mapping software for self-driving trucks.
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
Taught By The Best
Sebastian Thrun
Founder and Executive Chairman, Udacity
As the Founder and Chairman of Udacity, Sebastian's mission is to democratize education by providing lifelong learning to millions of students worldwide. He is also the founder of Google X, where he led projects including the Self-Driving Car, Google Glass, and more.
David Silver
Staff Software Engineer at Kodiak Robotics
David works on Self-driving trucks at Kodiak. As a Staff Software Engineer, David writes planning, control, simulation and mapping software for self-driving trucks.
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
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Self-Driving Car Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo