Release 1.8.0

[kfunaoka]

New Features

• Results of vision detector and lidar detector can be combined by range_vision_fusion (#1419).
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEUVmO7xWDA
• Colors of vision data can be projected into lidar data by pixel_cloud_fusion (#1297).
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhcEpT_3GB4
• Fake perception generating fake object and pointcloud message (#1439).
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7yCnQz1FmQ
• Cross build for NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 (#1447) and generic aarch64 (#1433).
  The build time for NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 shortens dramatically.
• Docker for 96boards (#1356).
• Drivers of Sick LD-MRS lidar (#1287).
• Grid divider of Point Cloud Map (#1271).
• Convenient autoware_bag_tools that rename frame IDs (#1307) and extract GNSS nmea data (#1345).
• Using TF generator when tf.launch is not given (#1239).
• Pure pursuit publishes deviation of current position (#1357).
• Can limit maximum scan range of ndt_mapping (#1412).

Improvements

• Euclidean cluster classifies pointcloud more precisely (#1426).
• Up to 8 lidars are supported by concat filter (#1255).
• Speed-up Points to Image processing (#1286).
• Brush up the internal structure of OpenPlanner (#1400).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where multiple cameras publishes the same frame id (#1296, autowarefoundation/autoware#1313).
• Fixed ndt_matching and ndt_mapping with GPU of Drive PX2 and Jetson TX2 (#1340).
• Fixed an issue where /can_velocity and /vehicle/odom are not generated from /vehicle_status (#1351).
• Fixed an issue where transform from map to base_link is not published in ndt_mapping (#1376).
• Fixed an issue where the app button of lidar_kf_contour_track and lidar_imm_ukf_pda_track do not work (#1436).

Known Issues

• Kanade – Lucas – Tomasi (KLT) Tracker does not work on Indigo (#1415).

[esteve]

@kfunaoka do you think https://github.com/CPFL/Autoware/pull/1398 could be added to the milestone now that it's merged? I've submitted https://github.com/CPFL/Autoware/pull/1429 to make it easier to cherry pick it.

[kfunaoka]

@esteve Yes. I think it's better to add autowarefoundation/autoware#1398 to v1.8.

I'll do the following action items.

• autoware/crossbuild:aarch64-kinetic-1.0.0 on DockerHub can be removed.
• autoware/crossbuild is remamed into autoware/build for using Docker with self build mentioned at https://github.com/CPFL/Autoware/pull/1396#issuecomment-409539642.
• autoware/build:generic-aarch64-kinetic-YYYYMMDD and autoware/build:synquacer-kinetic-YYYYMMDD will be pushed.
• Travis will use autoware/build:generic-aarch64-kinetic-YYYYMMDD.

[esteve]

I've submitted https://github.com/CPFL/Autoware/pull/1452 in case it could be added to the 1.8 release more easily.

[kfunaoka]

Updated with URIs of Video and Readme