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Tier IV's Kato conducts "Disaster opportunistic capitalism" for the autonomous driving OS, which newcomers are more likely to use free than existing companies.

https://www.autoware.org/

Tier IV establishes The Autoware Foundation to be the industry standard for autonomous driving OS | Press release by Tier IV

AWF is a non-profit organization that launches and develops various projects related to Autoware in three categories: Autoware.AI, Autoware.Auto, and Autoware.IO."

Autoware.AI is a category that follows the conventional Autoware project that has been continuing since 2015 and has already been introduced to over 100 companies and more than 30 types of autonomous driving vehicles both in Japan and overseas, mainly for R&D purposes.

Autoware.Auto is a category related to the development of a new on-board Autoware that has been redesigned using the ROS 2 framework, which is the next-generation Robot Operating System (ROS), from the perspective of functional safety, replacing Autoware.AI.

Autoware.IO is a category that manages various ECU, architecture, vehicle control interfaces, third-party software, and tool-related items for Autoware.

The participating companies and organizations at the time AWF was established are as follows (in alphabetical order): ARM, AutoCore, AutonomouStuff, eSOL, Huawei/HiSilicon, Intel Labs, Kalray, LG Electronics, Nagoya University, Open Robotics (OSRF), Parkopedia, RoboSense, SEMI Japan, SiFive/RISC-V Foundation, StreetDrone, Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD), Velodyne LiDAR, Xilinx

I tried to research the monetization structure, but I wasn't sure about it. What about summarizing it through "Summary of References on 'OSS and Business Strategy'"? Is it based on commissioned work?

I can't see any big monetization after this.

It seems to be a discussion on management strategy.

Voluntas

Additional note

2/8/2021 Kato's thoughts on autonomous driving OSS