Tool to determine microservice boundaries for software-defined vehicles

Summary

This project aims to develop a tool that analyzes the functionality and dependencies of different software components in a vehicle and recommends the optimal boundaries for dividing the system into microservices that follow the publisher-subscriber pattern. The goal of this project is to improve the scalability, flexibility, and maintainability of software-defined vehicles by breaking down monolithic systems into smaller, modular, and independently deployable services that can communicate using the publisher-subscriber architecture. The tool will consider factors such as message communication patterns, data flow, and system requirements to make its recommendations, and will be tested on real-world vehicle systems (e.g. Autoware) to evaluate its effectiveness.

Includes

• Extraction of the computation graph from pub-sub networks, especially from Robot Operating System (ROS) networks
• Study and implementation of graph partitioning and clustering algorithms
• Comparison of different design requirements by the tool