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On behalf of the students of the Schoold of Engineering and Design, the Mechanical Engineering Student Council awards the "Golden Teaching" prize every year in recognition of your great commitment and the very good evaluation results. This year our lecture "Fundamentals of Autonomous Vehicles" wins… [read more]

How can we bring autonomous driving to peak performance? Last week we had the exciting opportunity to visit our research partner Mercedes-AMG GmbH. We had intensive discussions about this question and found further points of contact. Mercedes-AMG GmbH generously showed us around their workshops,… [read more]

My next ride is a Robot 🤖! Together with Felix Jahncke our lab kicked off the new winter semester at TUM with a new practical course called “F1TENTH: Autonomous Driving Hands-on”. Our students get a small-scale autonomous vehicle and learn to code, implement, and optimize autonomous driving… [read more]

Welcome (back) to the TU Munich! The AVS lab wishes all students at TUM a good start into the new winter semester 2023/2024. We hope that you are looking forward to new challenges and exciting experiences in your studies.  This winter semester, we at AVS Lab are offering the new practical course… [read more]

For the past two weeks, our AVS Lab has been honoured to host a research visit from South Africa from Stellenbosch University. Dr Benjamin Evans, a postdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University, is conducting research in Deep and Reinforcement Learning for automated vehicles. Over the last two… [read more]

The IAA MOBILITY has finally arrived in Munich and started the event with some nice highlights. We from the AVS Lab will be out and about with the team in the centre of Munich all week. The largest exhibition space for research in the field of autonomous driving will be the Citizen Lab on… [read more]

Have you ever wondered how we manage to maneuver cars in unstructured and adversarial environments like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris 🥐 🇫🇷 ? How can we give an autonomous system ability to make efficient and effective decision-making in cooperative-competitive multi-agent systems? We try to answer… [read more]

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… [read more]

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.… [read more]

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… [read more]