Last weekend I’ve finally completed University of Toronto’s specialization on self-driving cars. It has been a rewarding journey so let me take a moment to review and reflect.
Generally I would recommend it to people with engineering background and anyone who’s interested in this field. The specialization has four courses, which cover introductions and a kinodynamic model, sensing and localization (LIDAR and IMU), visual perception and 3D modeling, and lastly motion planning and actuation. Most of the topics are useful and necessary in order to get into this field, and combined they provide a good overall feel of what it takes to build a self-driving car.