Use cases

Drawtonomy’s main focus is self-driving / autonomous driving (AD/ADAS) — figures, scenario authoring and simulation, OpenSCENARIO / Lanelet2 editing. The lane / vehicle / intersection vocabulary is general enough that it also fits a number of adjacent situations, and the built-in Math (KaTeX) tool makes drawtonomy useful as a generic LaTeX equation whiteboard for any field.

Scenario & simulation

• OpenSCENARIO editor — author phases, events, actions, and triggers visually, run them on esmini-WASM, export standard .xosc.
• OpenSCENARIO simulator — drop in a .xosc + .xodr and the embedded esmini-WASM runs the storyboard in the browser.
• OpenSCENARIO player — play, seek, follow the ego, and export the run as video.
• Sketching ADAS test scenarios — cut-in, lane-merge, and corner-case diagrams.
• Visualizing cut-in and lane-change scenarios — the recurring functional scenarios at the heart of every test catalog.
• Sketching scenes before CARLA — agree on the scene before committing to simulator setup.

Figures & slides

• Figures for autonomous driving papers — LaTeX-friendly scene illustrations.
• Slides for design review — clean intersection figures for slide decks.
• Scenario figures for blog posts and technical articles — embeddable, social-card-friendly figures for engineering blogs.
• Equations next to autonomous-driving figures — typeset LaTeX cost functions, controllers, prediction objectives beside the scene.

LaTeX equations — any field

• Equations in research paper figures — free, browser-based LaTeX/KaTeX editor that exports paper-safe SVG / PDF / EPS for IEEE, arXiv, and thesis submissions.
• Equations in slides and blog posts — 2-minute path from a LaTeX expression to a PNG/SVG that drops into Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint, Notion, Medium, Substack, or Ghost.
• Math whiteboard for teaching and review — typed equations + freehand annotations on one infinite canvas, for tutoring sessions, lecture handouts, and explainer threads.

Maps & road networks

• Editing Lanelet2 maps in the browser — fix small map issues without JOSM.
• Editing OpenDRIVE maps in the browser — open and tweak a .xodr without RoadRunner.
• Road network design tool — lay out lanes, intersections, roundabouts, and interchanges, then export.
• Lane drawing tool — lanes, crosswalks, and markings as first-class, topology-aware shapes.
• Annotating ROS occupancy grid maps — paper-ready annotations of SLAM maps.
• Lanelet2 → OpenSCENARIO workflow — go from Autoware HD map to a test scenario.

Education & adjacent

• Teaching autonomous-driving concepts — domain-aware figures for AV classes and tutorials.
• Driving school and driver-education diagrams — intersection, lane-change, and right-of-way sketches for lesson plans.
• Road safety education and everyday road sketches — classroom worksheets, family route discussions, blog posts, social-media road graphics.
• Accident reconstruction and insurance scene sketches — quick personal sketches; for professional reconstruction use dedicated tools.
• Traffic engineering and urban-planning sketches — quick figures for public meetings and reports; production analysis stays in Synchro, VISSIM, and similar.