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Autoware - the world's leading open-source software project for autonomous driving

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Autoware is the world's leading open-source autonomous driving framework. Autoware provides a comprehensive, production-ready software stack designed to accelerate the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles across diverse platforms and use cases. The project is written primarily in Dockerfile, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2015. It has gained significant community traction with 11,665 stars and 3,632 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: autonomous-driving, autonomous-vehicles, autoware, ros, ros2.

Latest release: 1.8.0

Autoware - the world's leading open-source software project for autonomous driving

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Autoware is the world's leading open-source autonomous driving framework. Autoware provides a comprehensive, production-ready software stack designed to accelerate the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles across diverse platforms and use cases.

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New to Autoware?

  1. Install Autoware โ†’ Set up your environment and build the stack from source.
  2. Run the Quick Start demo โ†’ Drive a simulated vehicle in just a few minutes.

Documentation

To learn more about using or developing Autoware, refer to the Autoware documentation site. You can find the source for the documentation in autowarefoundation/autoware-documentation.

Contributing

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  • Make sure to follow the Contribution Guidelines.
  • Take a look at Autoware's various working groups to gain an understanding of any work in progress and to see how projects are managed.
  • If you have any technical questions, you can start a discussion in the Q&A category to request help and confirm if a potential issue is a bug or not.

Useful resources

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Contributors

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