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Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

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Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

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CARLA Simulator

CARLA is an open-source simulator for autonomous driving research. CARLA has been developed from the ground up to support development, training, and validation of autonomous driving systems. In addition to open-source code and protocols, CARLA provides open digital assets (urban layouts, buildings, vehicles) that were created for this purpose and can be used freely. The simulation platform supports flexible specification of sensor suites and environmental conditions.

[!NOTE] This is the development branch ue5-dev for the Unreal Engine 5.5 version of CARLA. This branch exists in parallel with the Unreal Engine 4.26 version of CARLA, in the ue4-dev branch. Please be sure that this version of CARLA is suitable for your needs as there are significant differences between the UE 5.5 and UE 4.26 versions of CARLA.

Recommended system

  • Intel i7 gen 9th - 11th / Intel i9 gen 9th - 11th / AMD Ryzen 7 / AMD Ryzen 9
  • +32 Gb RAM memory
  • NVIDIA RTX 3070/3080/3090 / NVIDIA RTX 4090 / NVIDIA RTX 5090 or better
  • 16 Gb or more VRAM
  • Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04, or Windows 11

[!NOTE] You must use either Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04, or Windows 11. The Unreal Engine 5.5 version of CARLA will not work on Ubuntu 20.04 or Windows 10 or lower.

Documentation

The CARLA documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs. Please see the following key links:

CARLA Ecosystem

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Paper

If you use CARLA, please cite our CoRL’17 paper.

CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator
Alexey Dosovitskiy, German Ros, Felipe Codevilla, Antonio Lopez, Vladlen Koltun; PMLR 78:1-16 [PDF] [talk]

@inproceedings{Dosovitskiy17,
  title = {{CARLA}: {An} Open Urban Driving Simulator},
  author = {Alexey Dosovitskiy and German Ros and Felipe Codevilla and Antonio Lopez and Vladlen Koltun},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning},
  pages = {1--16},
  year