On 03.05.2023, FZD and HEAG mobilo presented the results of the tram research project MAAS to numerous guests at the depot in Eberstadt.

On Feb. 21, 2023, Stefan Ackermann successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Safe Halt as Fail-safe Concept for Automated Driving Systems”. His thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Winner.

In the AUTOtech.agil joint project that has just started, an open software and hardware architecture is to be created for the mobility system of the future. In this way, the transformation of road traffic can be actively shaped. The research project is funded with almost 25 million euros by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding guideline “Electronics and software development methods for the digitization of automobility (Mannheim)”.

On 07.02.2023 Raphael Pleß, Melina Lutwitzi and Christoph Popp successfully defended their PhD theses on following topics under supervision of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Winner:

On 1st of February Continental AG celebrated the grand opening of its AI Lab in Berlin. Our head, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steven Peters, was one of the invited key note speakers and spoke about the role of AI to enable Automated Driving.

On 25.01.2023 Lennart Guckes and Tobias Homolla successfully defended their PhD theses on following topics under supervision of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Winner:

FZD welcomes its latest family member: a battery electric sedan with the first conditionally automated driving system (L3) meeting the legal requirements of the international UN-R157. FZD will use it in research and teaching (e.g. in the Automotive Engineering Tutorial). A first research study is already on its way – more to come, stay tuned!.

On 17.01.2023 Moritz Lippert, Clemens Linnhoff and Felix Glatzki successfully defended their PhD theses on following topics under supervision of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Winner:

Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Lidar combines the advantages of radar and lidar. As thus it is a very promising technology to further enhance sensing for automated driving tasks. FZD currently runs its first tests of this very new technology with an Aeva Aries II sensor.

Topic: “Metrics for Specification, Validation, and Uncertainty Prediction for Credibility in Simulation of Active Perception Sensor Systems”

On 08.11.2022 Philipp Rosenberger, CEO of Persival GmbH (a FZD spinoff), successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Metrics for Specification, Validation, and Uncertainty Prediction for Credibility in Simulation of Active Perception Sensor Systems” under supervision of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Winner.

Our head of FZD, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steven Peters, became member of the German scientific society WKM (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorentechnik e.V.).