Streamlining data processing for safer autonomous Driving: A sensor pipeline appraoch

Autonomous vehicles have become the crux of today’s innovation and research. There are so many unidentified problems in the real-world scenario that the solutions can be endless. Many such companies who are marching on the way to define a perfect autonomous driving vehicle have also achieved level 3 or 4 of the SAE Driving Automation standard. Autonomous vehicles mainly rely on sensors which act as their senses to find their way and locate themselves in the environment and through traffic and various types of objects. The positioning of the sensors, their region and range of vision, their flexibility to work in different environmental conditions and finally how they are put together in the pipeline poses a critical and vital concern. This paper imparts an understanding about the sensor data and its pipeline in the spectrum of autonomous vehicle.