SENSOR SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM

Disclosed are systems and methods for a sensor synchronization system. In some aspects, a method includes synchronizing sensors of an autonomous vehicle (AV) to cause sampling of a first sensor of the sensors to occur in alignment with sampling of a second sensor of the sensors; determining a sampling time point for the first sensor based on the synchronizing the sensors, the sampling time point comprising a time when the first sensor is in alignment with the second sensor; providing the sampling time point to the first sensor; determining, at a controller circuit of the first sensor, an offset of the first sensor to apply to a local system time of the first sensor to cause a data acquisition of the first sensor to occur at the sampling time point; and causing the data acquisition to be performed at the first sensor using the sampling time point and the offset.