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Next year's tutorial (2023) will only take place for AESG students from USA. After that the tutorial will then be held with a new set of experiments and tasks starting in summer 2024 for the students of TU Darmstadt.

Clemens Linnhoff, Philipp Rosenberger, Kai Storms and Cheng Wang presented their research at the VVM Mid-Term Event.

Christoph Popp, Björn Klamann, Moritz Lippert and Felix Glatzki presented their research at the Uni-DAS Workshop Fahrerassistenz und automatisiertes Fahren.

On May, 3rd 2022 our new head of FZD, Professor Dr.-Ing. Steven Peters, presented his inaugural lecture at Campus Lichtwiese to a broad audience of more than 100 colleagues, partners and friends of FZD who joined in person or via livestream.

Steven Peters is our new Professor in Automotive Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering since April 1st.

The registration for the automotive engineering tutorial is now open.

On February 1, 2022, the project “TarA” (short for Test Effort Reduction AEB) started at FZD in the context of a cooperation with a tier one supplier.

Topic: Benchmarking of Behaviour Algorithmns for the Application in Motor Sport Scenarios

On 12.01.2022 the oral doctoral examination of Mr. Marco Sippel took place digitally, due to the pandemic situation. Congratulations to Mr. Sippel for successfully passing the exam. We wish him all the best for his future!

FZD published OpenSimulationInterface (OSI) compatible radar and lidar system models.

Topic: Silent Testing for Safety Validation of Automated Driving in Field Operation

On 26.10.21 the oral doctoral examination of Mr. Cheng Wang took place.

The Last Lecture

After 20 years leading the Institute of Automotive Engineering Darmstadt (FZD), Prof. Dr. rer. nat Hermann Winner bids farewell and steps on to take his well-deserved retirement.

The Lidar start-up Blickfeld visited the August-Euler-Airfield in Griesheim to set up calibrated lidar targets for FZD's long-term research on weather impact on automotive perception sensors.

Since 2010 there has been a lively student exchange program between the FZD and the School of Automotive Studies at Tongji University Shanghai.

Topic: “Experimentelle Einflussgrößenanalyse der Partikelemission von Pkw-Scheibenbremsen”

On 06.07.21 the oral doctoral examination of Mr. Hartmut Niemann took place.