Is there any examples beyond the demo/demo_2.0 to learn Apollo?

[ghost]

Is there any examples beyond the demo/demo_2.0 to learn Apollo, for example, loading the data and simulating on Dreamview? Customizing the modules? Or building a self-driving car step by step?

I red some docs provided inside the source codes, however, it is a bit confused. Is there any tutorial?

Thanks.

[ghost]

Found an article from the Apollo developer community that published today.

[abhisheknaik96]

Could you point others to that article?

[ghost]

@abhisheknaik96

It is a Chinese article that written by Apollo team.

• Apollo“云+端”研发迭代新模式实战

[abhisheknaik96]

Thank you so much @kwailamchan!

[Zhenni17]

Hi @kwailamchan @abhisheknaik96 , thank you for your interests in Apollo! We are actively working on new materials that ranging from technical articles to short video-tutorials to help developers like you to learn more about Apollo.

I'd love to learn more about the topics that you want to learn more about, and the format that you preferred to learn with. On my end, I will work with our team to launch some of those learning materials for everyone here.

At the meantime, we are launching a blog soon that will feature technical articles every month (http://medium.com/apollo-auto). Please subscribe!

Best, Zhenni Community Manager | Apollo Platform

[ghost]

Hi @Zhenni17, thank you for open sourcing Apollo for all developers that are interested in self-driving car and other autonomous systems, reading the codes and resources provided by the team, I found that the architecture of the system is good, and the community is developing and supportive.

From a developer's perspective, what I am concerning on are:

• getting started (practical): how we could build a custom self-driving car step by step using Apollo, for example, from choosing a car and the specific sensors, installing Apollo on the car, feeding the custom data, to letting it run on the road. A real dummy self-driving car is created step by step using Apollo;

• intermediate (practical + theory): how we could custom the modules and develop the new algorithms and features on Apollo, then we could apply Apollo to various of industry, application and scenarios;

• advanced (customisation): perhaps not only for the cars, it could be customised to be other autonomous systems like self-driving bicycle/ truck/..., we could create some modules or delete them, we could deploy some new algorithms, or optimise the computing platform on software or hardware level etc.

Regarding the format, materials like online articles or the courses on Udacity would be friendly, offline-event and developer community would be supportive too.

Thanks for open sourcing!

Best, Kelly

[Zhenni17]

Hi Kelly,

Thank you for your thoughtful suggestions and questions, and I appreciate your comments on our open-source spirit!

To answer your questions:

• Currently, I am working with our Evangelists team in China to produce a detailed getting started guide in the next few months. We will produce a series of articles/tutorials based on developers' perspectives, and will cover each step that you mentioned in your question. Please stay tuned!

• We will produce more materials on Github to lead and teach Apollo developers to customize the modules and develop new algorithms and features. As an open-source platform, we define our success by helping developers around the world to solve autonomous driving related problems, in various industry and scenarios. If you don't mind, I'd love to keep in touch with you when we developing the materials to get your feedback on some of the materials. If you are interested, please send me an email directly at wuzhenni01@baidu.com.

• Besides the class with Udacity that will coming this Summer, we are also actively hosting events both online and offline. I'm not sure where you are located, but currently we host meet up event on both Silicon Valley and various city in China. To keep updated with the offline events, you can follow us on Twitter @ApolloPlatform, our blog at medium.com/apollo-auto (and signup our newsletter on the blog page). If you are in China, I highly recommend you to follow our WeChat official account at Apollo_Developers.

Hope above info answered your questions. Please let me know if you have any additional question!

Best, Zhenni