A Virtual LiDAR Component

Created in Unreal Engine with C++ 

I completed a 6-month internship at a company called AnteMotion, where I implement a virtual LIDAR sensor in Unreal Engine for automotive ADAS driving simulation. AnteMotion is a simulation company that deals with Automotive ADAS/AV virtual testing (Training & Validation), and it is located in Rovereto, Italy. The topic of my master's thesis was also relevant to my internship.

Given the importance of LiDAR data in autonomous vehicle applications, there needs to be a safe and cost-efficient way to create and collect these data. The purpose of this project is to implement a virtual LiDAR sensor in a virtual environment. It will produce results as close as possible to a real-life sensor, and will be customizable in order to cover a wide range of different models. This component can be used in a game engine called Unreal Engine 4 in the form of a plugin. This will provide researchers with an efficient simulation tool for generating LiDAR data and thus testing their algorithms on a wider range of scenarios and not limiting them to existing data sets.