AWML: An Open-Source ML-based Robotics Perception Framework to Deploy for ROS-based Autonomous Driving Software

Tanaka, Satoshi, Thapa, Samrat, Tan, Kok Seang, Szymko, Amadeusz, Kenzo, Lobos, Minoda, Koji, Tomie, Shintaro, Uetake, Kotaro, Zhang, Guolong, Yamashita, Isamu, Horibe, Takamasa

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

In recent years, machine learning technologies have played an important role in robotics, particularly in the development of autonomous robots and self-driving vehicles. As the industry matures, robotics frameworks like ROS 2 have been developed and provides a broad range of applications from research to production. In this work, we introduce AWML, a framework designed to support MLOps for robotics. AWML provides a machine learning infrastructure for autonomous driving, supporting not only the deployment of trained models to robotic systems, but also an active learning pipeline that incorporates auto-labeling, semi-auto-labeling, and data mining techniques.