Glossary

ADAS

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: vehicle systems that support the driver with functions such as sensing, warning, and automated control.

ADTF

Automotive Data and Time-Triggered Framework, a framework for developing automotive data-processing applications and tools.

CAN

Controller Area Network, a robust bus system commonly used for communication between electronic control units.

Car2X

Vehicle-to-everything communication between vehicles, infrastructure, and other road users or network services.

CSF

Cyber Security Framework, a structured set of standards and practices for managing and improving cybersecurity risk. See the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

CVAT

Computer Vision Annotation Tool, a platform for creating and managing datasets used to train computer-vision models.

Databricks

A cloud platform for data engineering, analytics, and machine-learning workflows.

DSP

Digital Signal Processor, a processor optimized for efficiently processing digitized signals.

Eye-hand calibration

The process of determining the spatial relationship between a robot hand and a camera mounted on or near the robot.

FlexRay

A deterministic, high-speed communication bus used in automotive systems.

OpenCV

An open-source computer-vision library for image processing and analysis.

PowerPC

A family of RISC processor architectures used in embedded and other performance-oriented systems.

RDBMS

Relational Database Management System, software that stores and manages data in related tables.

Time-of-Flight

A depth-sensing technique that measures the time light takes to travel to an object and return to a sensor.

YOLOv5

A real-time object-detection model from the YOLO family.