News from the AVS Lab

The TUM Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab is excited to be at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2026), taking place from September 15–18, 2026, in Naples, Italy! 🍕🇮🇹 This year, we are bringing a strong program to ITSC, spanning autonomous racing,… [read more]

We are excited to announce that two papers from the TUM Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab will be presented at ECCV 2026. The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) is one of the world’s leading scientific conferences in computer vision and artificial intelligence. It brings together… [read more]

Prof. Johannes Betz has been honored with this year’s Supervisory Award of the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED). What makes this recognition particularly meaningful is that the selection was made by the doctoral candidates of the Graduate School ED. The award recognizes his dedicated,… [read more]

At this year’s Department Day of the TUM School of Engineering and Design, Team AVS was awarded 2nd place in the Teaching Award for seminars/projects. The award recognized the seminar “Development and Design of Useful Autonomous Vehicles”, in which students discuss and develop their own ideas… [read more]

We are delighted to welcome Raimo Sieber to the Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). With his strong background in engineering and computer science, as well as his extensive practical experience, we look forward to the contributions he will… [read more]

We are excited to share that Prof. Johannes Betz has been appointed Associate Editor of the newly established IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR), the flagship journal dedicated to cutting-edge research in robotics operating in real-world environments. This appointment recognizes Prof.… [read more]

Our former student Andreas Blum has been awarded the WITTENSTEIN-Preis for the best Master's thesis at the TUM School of Engineering & Design! His work on end-to-end differentiable SLAM for autonomous vehicles combines the best of classical and neural approaches. [read more]

The Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) Lab has established an official Hugging Face organization. This platform will serve as a central repository for our open-source datasets, foundation models, and benchmarks in the field of autonomous driving and robotics. [read more]

The TUM Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab has started a new applied research project together with SAP’s Embodied AI team. The project investigates enterprise-aware embodied AI, with a focus on integrating cognitive robots into SAP-driven business contexts. The goal is to explore how autonomous… [read more]

We are hiring! Five New Research Positions Open at the AVS Lab The Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) Lab is growing! To push the boundaries of the next generation of intelligent, autonomous vehicle systems and robotics platforms, we are looking for highly qualified and motivated talents to join our… [read more]