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New open source software published

Our AVS Lab has released new open source software on Github. The repository contains a software tool that can be used for latency analysis of ROS2 based software architectures. Typically, ROS2 software systems consist of a high number of publisher and subscriber modules. Our software tool is able to…

Guest Lecture - Dr. Andreas Eisele from CARIAD

At the end of our 2023 summer semester, we had a guest from industry visit us in our lecture "Development and Design of Useful Autonomous Vehicles". Dr. Andreas Eisele is an employee of CARIAD, a Volkswagen subsidiary that specializes in the development of software for automotive applications.…

Generation E Podcast - Autonomous Driving

Our lab head Johannes Betz was a guest on the "Generation E Mobility Podcast" and talked there with the host about the topic of autonomous driving. The content was various discussions about the technology, the users & users as well as the increase of acceptance as well as the replacement of humans…

New employee at AVS Lab

We are very happy to welcome our new employee Felix Jahncke! Felix will be part of our AVS Lab with immediate effect and will intensively work on the exciting area of reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles. Felix studied at TUM in the field of automotive engineering and graduated with B.…

IV 2023: 5 new paper + workshops

Last week, the AVS team attended the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2023, one of the leading conferences in the field of autonomous vehicles. We traveled to Alaska (USA) to meet with researchers from around the world and discuss the latest research in automotive technology, autonomous driving…

ICRA 2023: New Paper + Competition

This week, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 took place in London, which the TUM AVS team attended. Our time at ICRA 2023 was a fantastic opportunity to network with robotics researchers from around the world, exchange ideas, and explore the latest innovations. From…

11th Automated Driving Symposium

Together with other TUM chairs and numerous industry representatives, our AVS Lab is organizing the 11th Automated Driving Symposium. Autonomous driving will permanently change the mobility of the future. With the amended legislation for autonomous vehicles, Germany created concrete framework…

New Open-Source Software: ORB SLAM3 RGB-L

We are pleased to open-source a new software package for autonomous driving functions to the community: ORB SLAM3 RGB-L. In this work, we add RGB-L (LiDAR) mode to the well-known ORB-SLAM3. This allows us to integrate LiDAR depth measurements directly into the visual SLAM. In this way, we obtain an…

Welcome to the summer semester 2023

Welcome back to the TU Munich! The AVS lab wishes all students at TUM a good start into the new summer semester 2023. We hope you are looking forward to new challenges and exciting experiences in your studies.  We at AVS Lab are offering two new lectures this summer semester. For Bachelor students…

Open positions in our AVS Lab: We are hiring!

Our Lab is looking for new employees. We have several open positions in different areas. We are looking for new PhD students who are interested in working with us on exciting topics in autonomous driving. We are currently looking for two new PhD students* in the following areas: Trajectory and…