European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC)
Abstract
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have the potential to radically change the automotive industry. How- ever, computing solutions for AVs have to meet severe performance constraints to guarantee a safe driving experience. Current solutions either exhibit high cost or fail to meet the stringent latency constraints. Therefore, the popularization of AVs requires a low-cost yet effective computing sys- tem. Understanding the sources of latency is key in order to improve autonomous driving systems. Here, we present a detailed characterization of Autoware, a modern self-driving car system. We analyze the performance of the different components and leverage hardware counters to identify the main bottlenecks.This work has been supported by the the CoCoUnit ERC Advanced Grant of the EU’s Horizon 2020 program (grant No 833057), the Spanish State Research Agency under grant PID2020-113172RB-I00 (AEI/FEDER, EU), the ICREA Academia program, and the grant 2020 FPI-UPC_033.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
