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Connected & Autonomous Driving: reading guide

V2X, SAE automation levels, occupancy grids, behavior planning, and HD maps connected to perception and control.

This is an editorially selected reading order. Begin at step 1 or go directly to the topic you need.

  1. Fundamentals · 34 min

    SAE Driving Automation Levels 0–5 — The Responsibility Boundary Behind ADAS

    SAE J3016 is not a score of vehicle intelligence. Learn who performs the dynamic driving task, monitoring, and fallback at Levels 0–5, with ODD, takeover latency, current ADAS, SOTIF, security, and safety evaluation.

  2. Fundamentals · 28 min

    Occupancy Grid Mapping — Turning LiDAR and Camera Evidence into Traversability

    An occupancy grid divides space into cells and represents occupied, free, and unknown space probabilistically. Learn Bayesian and log-odds updates, inverse sensor models, ray casting, dynamic decay, 3D voxels, SLAM, costmaps, and planning.

  3. Fundamentals · 28 min

    Occupancy Grid Mapping — Turning LiDAR and Camera Evidence into Traversability

    An occupancy grid divides space into cells and represents occupied, free, and unknown space probabilistically. Learn Bayesian and log-odds updates, inverse sensor models, ray casting, dynamic decay, 3D voxels, SLAM, costmaps, and planning.

  4. Fundamentals · 40 min

    Behavior Planning Primer: How FSMs, Behavior Trees, and POMDPs Choose What an Automated Vehicle Does Next

    Behavior planning turns uncertain perception into stop, follow, yield, merge, and lane-change decisions, then constrains path planning and MPC. This primer connects FSMs, behavior trees, POMDPs, current ADAS, safety, and testing.

  5. Fundamentals · 40 min

    Behavior Planning Primer: How FSMs, Behavior Trees, and POMDPs Choose What an Automated Vehicle Does Next

    Behavior planning turns uncertain perception into stop, follow, yield, merge, and lane-change decisions, then constrains path planning and MPC. This primer connects FSMs, behavior trees, POMDPs, current ADAS, safety, and testing.

  6. Fundamentals · 21 min

    HD Maps — Lane-Level Maps for Autonomous Driving

    An HD map represents lanes, boundaries, signs, elevation, and connectivity as machine-readable data. This guide explains how it differs from a SLAM map, how localization works, and why freshness and uncertainty matter.

  7. Fundamentals · 27 min

    V2X Primer — Connecting Vehicles, Roads, Networks, and People Safely

    What do V2V, V2I, V2N, and V2P exchange, and how do DSRC/ITS-G5 and C-V2X differ? This primer connects latency, delivery reliability, cooperative perception, PKI, location privacy, fail-safe design, and reproducible testing.

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