Autonomous Visualization System

2019: Disclosure of source codes

In February, 2019 Uber laid out source codes of the Autonomous Visualization System platform intended for visualization of automobile data on GitHub. The company hopes that this web technology will become the standard for the market.

Uber calls Autonomous Visualization System "a new method" of understanding and data transmission of the systems of pilotless control of vehicles. This platform is applied in the developments by the division of Uber Advanced Technologies Group which is engaged in development of self-governed machines. Several companies, including Voyage and Applied Intuition, also showed willingness to use this product.

Screenshot from the Autonomous Visualization System program

Using the abstract visualization implemented in Autonomous Visualization System, developers can focus on key features of off-line control for systems setting cars in motion and also for remote service, navigation and modeling. Autonomous Visualization System exempts developers from need to create own software for visualization for the pilotless cars, said in the statement of Uber.

The company notes that the command developing Autonomous Visualization System as the main principle uses modularity, creating so-called "layers" that components in an autonomous stack could develop or adapt to contextual data independently and without the need for system-wide making changes. It allowed Uber developers to involve a system, for example, for viewing magazines and conducting cartographic service, having left possibilities of its scaling for such industries as UAVs, robotics, cargo transportation and management of the park of cars.^[1]

Observers of The Verge called disclosure of source codes of Autonomous Visualization System "an unprecedented step in the world of carefully protected secrets about pilotless driving". However, before Tesla Motors published source codes of the technology in this area.^[2]

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