Autonomous Racing Software-Developer at FaSTTUBe

(WiSe 2024 - Ongoing)

At the Formula Student Team TU-Berlin, we prepare for and then participate in the yearly formula-student events hosted all over europe with an electric race car that is designed and build from scratch - every year - by over 80 students from programs and universities all over berlin.

As we don’t just compete in the manual, but also autonomous divisions, this not only poses challenges in mechanical- and electrical engineerings, but also at the intersection of machine learning software, robotics and hardware integration.

Me in the (autonomous) FT25

Work

  • Improving and building autonomous driving pipeline with ROS2 in Python and C++

  • Creating new Gstreamer object-detection pipeline for cone image recognition
  • Training and dataset-based quantization of YOLO model, reduced classification time by 80% ( vs )
  • Efficient inference with onnxruntime and openvino

  • Integration and sensor-fusion with LiDaR clustering data to validate and detect cone colors

  • Rewrote Gazebo simulation setup for efficient simulation and evaluation of driving runs
  • Implemented Bayesian Optimization to optimize pure-pursuit parameters for different tracks
  • Improved runtime from previous hand-tuned results by 15% (skidpad discipline)
LiDAR autonomous driving visualization Autonomous driving visualization

Experience

  • Participation in the VDE E-Race and FSCzech events in the 2025 and 2026 season
    • Presented and defended software choices in Engineering Design Discipline
  • Attendendance of the 2025 and 2026 Autonomous Racing Workshop ARWo at TU-Hamburg
    • Presented on software optimization for embedded deep-learning and computer vision algorithms

ARWo Presentation 2026

Teaching Robotics at RobotX Workshops

  • Presenting core principles and recent advances in LiDaR-based autonomous driving
  • Guiding hands-on experiments with 1/10th race car
  • Showing manual exploration and impact of pure-pursuit parameters

A very bad picture of me at the workshop

WIP ???

  • Developing web-app for (WIP)
  • Designing and optimizing database schemes
  • Managing team development environment with VPN and remote server
  • Authentication management with JWT via cookies
  • Application deployment with docker, nginx and FastAPI