Changelog for package awsim_sensor_kit_launch

0.53.0 (2026-10-13)

• Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into tmp/bot/bump_version_base

• refactor(sensing)!: separate sensor driver and pre-processing layers from sensor kit configuration (#1938)

  * refactor(launch)!: rename tier4_sensing_launch to autoware_sensing_launch tier4_sensing_launch held one 19-line pass-through page that pushed the sensing namespace and included the sensor kit entry. The component page now includes that entry directly and pushes the namespace itself, so the layer is gone and the package is left as the home of the shared sensing units added next.

  • move the package to autoware_universe_launch/autoware_sensing_launch

  - rename tier4_sensing_component.launch.xml to components/component_sensing.launch.xml

  - drop the pass-through page and its diagram Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <<noreply@anthropic.com>>

  * feat(autoware_sensing_launch): add the shared sensing unit library Declarative XML units for the sensor data pre/post-processing stages, each addressed by an absolute container path so a caller can place it in any container it owns.

  • pointcloud_container, the only unit that creates a container

  - pointcloud_crop_boxes, pointcloud_preprocessor_{cpu,cuda}, pointcloud_concatenation_{cpu,cuda}

  - blockage_diagnostics, gnss_postprocessor, imu_corrector, radar_tracks_postprocessor

  • shared preprocessing, blockage and radar defaults under config/

  - generate_crop_box_params.py, which turns vehicle info and mirror geometry into the crop box files the kits commit and pass in; septentrio_heading_converter.py is installed as a runtime node The parameter files and the heading converter are ported from tier4/aip_launcher (aip_common_sensor_launch), Apache-2.0 under the same TIER IV copyright. Nothing includes these units yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <<noreply@anthropic.com>>

  * feat(autoware_sensor_driver_launch): add the sensor driver layer The hardware interface layer, kept apart from the pre-processing units so that a sensor make and model can be brought into the ROS graph on its own.

  - nebula_{velodyne,robosense,hesai}: per-make driver chains, configured by the model param file shipped in the nebula driver package

  - velodyne_{VLP16,VLS128}, robosense_{Bpearl,Helios}, hesai_{XT32,OT128}: per-model wrappers

  - every file loads its node into target_container, an existing container owned by the caller; this package never creates one The velodyne and robosense wrappers carry the content of the sample kit's common_sensor_launch, which the following commit removes. The hesai wrappers are ported from tier4/aip_launcher (aip_common_sensor_launch) onto the same chain pattern, with sync_angle and cut_angle in place of scan_phase and nebula's own host_ip default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <<noreply@anthropic.com>>

  • refactor(sensing)!: adopt the shared sensing units in the sample and awsim kits

  - sample kit: create one container per lidar, then load the per-model driver wrapper and the CPU preprocessing chain into it; concatenation comes from the shared unit

  - awsim kit: preprocessing only, since AWSIM publishes pointcloud_raw_ex directly

  - commit the crop box geometry each kit owns, generated from the vehicle description by generate_crop_box_params.py, in place of the runtime vehicle_info and mirror lookups

  - remove common_sensor_launch, whose nebula_node_container.launch.py the driver chains replace; its changelog continues as autoware_sensor_driver_launch/CHANGELOG.rst The awsim_labs fork read its preprocessing defaults out of common_sensor_launch; it points at autoware_sensing_launch until its own commit retires it. The awsim kit no longer launches a nebula driver node or the velodyne monitor. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <<noreply@anthropic.com>>

  * refactor(sensing)!: adopt the shared sensing units in the single_lidar kit single_lidar_common_launch was a copy of common_sensor_launch that had drifted apart from it, having lost the

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