The Autoware Tutorial & Workshop at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2026)
IEEE IV Worshop Day, June 22nd 2026
8:30am-5:30pm Cadillac Room A&B
The 4th Autoware Tutorial & 8th Autoware Workshop at IV
Autoware is the world’s first open-source self-driving software built on ROS2 middleware, offering all core capabilities required for autonomous driving. More than a decade after its initial release, Autoware continues to advance education, research, and industry adoption of autonomous driving technologies. It is maintained by the Autoware Foundation (AWF), a global consortium of over 80 organizations from academia, industry, and government, jointly developing an open software and hardware ecosystem.
Join Us @ IV
The Autoware Foundation is happy to invite you to attend the Autoware Tutorial and Workshop at IEEE IV 2026 in Detroit, USA. This year the tutorial and workshop are combined in a full day event. In the morning, come join a hands-on tutorial on the Autoware software stack and learn how to install the open source autonomous driving system on your own computer and run it in simulation and on real world vehicles. In the afternoon workshop, we present the latest real world autonomous driving research powered by Autoware and highlight the latest developments in the Autoware project and industry partners!
Welcome & Tutorial
08:35
Speaker: Alexander Carballo (Gifu University), Simon Thompson (TIER IV), Rahul Mangharam (University of Pennsylvania)
08:40
Speaker: Christian John (Autoware Foundation, TIER IV)
09:20
Speaker: William He (University of Delaware)
10:00
Speakers: Yon Vanommeslaeghe (University of Pennsylvania) & Po-Jen Wang (Autoware Foundation)
10:40
Speakers: Chi-Sheng Shih, Hsiang-Jui Lin, and Meng Hsueh Lee (National Taiwan University)
11:00
Workshop – Papers and Community Presentation
11:30
Speakers: Ryohsuke Mitsudome (Autoware Foundation, TIER IV)
11:50
Speakers: Yu Asabe (TIER IV)
12:10
Speakers: Korbinian Moller (Technical University of Munich)
12:30
Speakers: Yupeng Zhou and Ziran Wang (Purdue University)
13:30
13:45
Speakers: All Workshop Paper Authors
15:30
Speakers: All Workshop Paper Authors
15:50
16:10
Speakers: Abhijit Sarkar (Virginia Tech Transport Institute)
16:30
Speakers: Alexander Carballo (Gifu University)
16:50
Speakers: William He (University of Delaware)
17:10
Speakers: Takahiro Ishikawa (TIER IV)
17:30
Speakers: Tanmay Samak, Chinmay Samak (Clemson University)
The Combined Autoware Tutorial & Workshop at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2026
Tutorial (8:30-10:30)
As autonomous driving (AD) research matures, the barrier to entry remains high due to the complexity of integrating perception, planning, and control stacks. This tutorial lowers that barrier by introducing Autoware, the world’s leading open-source autonomous driving software platform [https://autoware.org].
Designed for researchers, students, and industry engineers, this session provides a comprehensive entry point into the Autoware ecosystem (based on ROS 2). Attendees will move beyond theory to practice through a guided, hands-on workshop covering the installation, configuration, and execution of the Autoware stack in simulation. Furthermore, the tutorial will bridge the gap between research and vehicle deployment by demonstrating how to integrate Autoware on Off-Road and Low Speed Vehicles. By the end of the session, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of the Autoware software stack, a functional AD environment on their laptops, and the knowledge to integrate the platform on the simulator or vehicle of their choice.
Keywords: Open-source Autonomous Driving, Autoware, ROS 2, Education, Simulation,, Vehicle Integration.
Target Audience
- Graduate Students & Academic Researchers looking for a validated platform to test novel algorithms without building a car from scratch.
- Industry Engineers seeking to understand open-source standards in AD.
- Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with Linux (Ubuntu) and ROS/ROS 2 concepts is recommended.
Workshop (11:00 to 17:30)
This workshop aims to:
Explore state-of-the-art technologies such as advanced sensing, map-less navigation, connected vehicles, end-to-end driving, and semantic scene understanding, with pathways for integration into Autoware.
Investigate navigation strategies for autonomous racing and their transfer to urban environments.
Examine cooperative–competitive multi-agent systems for autonomous driving.
Address open challenges, including adverse weather, and review emerging solutions.
The workshop engages IEEE ITS Society and IV participants while broadening the Autoware community. It provides value to newcomers seeking foundational knowledge for research and development, as well as to experts looking for the latest advancements and opportunities to contribute to an active open-source ecosystem dedicated to safer and more accessible autonomous driving.
Now in its 8th edition at IV, the workshop has been co-hosted with the symposium since its inception and continues to grow under the Autoware Centers of Excellence, with rising paper submissions each year.
Workshop Papers (Poster Session 13:30-15:30)
15:30
Speakers: All Workshop Paper Authors
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