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.

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.

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.

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.

FZD has recently launched a platform for open source projects developed at the institute.

Topic: “Entwicklung eines Verfahrens zur integrierten Bremsmomentmessung für Simplex-Trommelbremsen”

On 14.04.21 the oral doctoral examination of Mr. Christian Vey took place.

The registration for the automotive engineering tutorial is now open.

Topic: Synthetic Generation of Radar Sensor Data for Virtual Validation of Autonomous Driving

On 20.01.2021 the oral doctoral examination of Mr. Martin Holder took place.

Topic: “Identifikation des Fahrfertigkeitsniveaus von Motorradfahrern in Kurvenfahrten im Realverkehr”

On 01.07.2020 the oral doctoral examination of Mr. Nils Magiera took place.

Changes due to SARS-CoV-2

The registration for the automotive engineering tutorial is now open.

Update regarding SARS-CoV-2

Due to the current pandemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 the Tutorial Automotive Engineering will not take place at the scheduled time slot as it was announced before, because the risk of infection for the students is too high during the driving experiments with up to 4 students driving in one vehicle.