SENSOR DATA TRANSFER WITH SELF ADAPTIVE CONFIGURATIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE

A sensor system for an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes a sensor interface coupled to a plurality of sensors, a host interface coupled to a host system of the ADV, and a self-adaptive sensor transfer unit coupled between the sensor interface and the host interface. The self-adaptive sensor transfer unit includes a sensor monitor module, configured to monitor a data rate of sensor data received from a sensor, and a configuration control module, configured to: receive a target data rate from the host via the host interface; receive the monitored data rate of the sensor data; and control the data rate of the sensor data to be within a threshold of the target data rate.