Welcome

In this course we will be talking about sensor fusion, which is the process of taking data from multiple sensors and combining it to give us a better understanding of the world around us. We will mostly be focusing on two sensors, lidar, and radar. By the end you will be fusing the data from these two sensors to track multiple cars on the road, estimating their positions and speed.

In Sensor Fusion, by combining lidar’s high resolution imaging with radar's ability to measure velocity of objects we can get a better understanding of the surrounding environment than we could using one of the sensors alone.
Before starting to fuse multiple sensor information together though, you will first go through the process of getting obstacle positions from raw lidar data. So to get started let’s check out lidar sensors and the high resolution point clouds they generate.