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 ue58-dev for the Unreal Engine 5.8 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 5.8 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 5.8 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
Repositories associated with the CARLA simulation platform:
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Paper
If you use CARLA, please cite our CoRL’17 paper.
CARLA: An Open Urban Driving SimulatorAlexey 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 = {2017}
}
Building CARLA with Unreal Engine 5.8
Clone this repository locally from GitHub, specifying the ue58-dev branch:
git clone -b ue58-dev https://github.com/carla-simulator/carla.git CarlaUE5
In order to build CARLA, you need access to the CARLA fork of Unreal Engine 5.8. In order to access this repository, you must first link your GitHub account to Epic Games by following this guide. You then also need to use your git credentials to authorise the download of the Unreal Engine 5.8 repository.
Building in Linux:
Run the setup script from a terminal open in the CARLA root directory:
cd CarlaUE5
./CarlaSetup.sh --interactive
The setup script will prompt you for your sudo password, in order to install the prerequisites. It will then prompt you for your GitHub credentials in order to authorise the download of the Unreal Engine repository.
The setup script will install by default Python 3 using apt. If you want to target an existing Python installation, you should use the --python-root=PATH_TO_PYTHON argument with the relevant Python installation path. You can use whereis python3 in your chosen environment and strip the /python3 suffix from the path.
Building in Linux unattended:
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