Autoware in Construction: Gap Analysis and LiDAR Perception Toward Off-Road Autonomous Driving

cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-10-03

Updated: 2026-10-03

Comments: 2026 IROS 5th Workshop on Future of Construction, 4 pages, 5 figures

Code: https://github.com/autowarefoundation/autoware.off-road

Project page: https://tier4.github.io/autoware-documentation/tier4-main/design/autoware-architecture

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Sources

• Robotics Under Construction: Challenges on Job Sites
• Joint Optimization-based Targetless Extrinsic Calibration for Multiple LiDARs and GNSS-Aided INS of Ground Vehicles
• AWML: An Open-Source ML-based Robotics Perception Framework to Deploy for ROS-based Autonomous Driving Software
• Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail

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