Scalable V&V frameworks for Level 4 autonomous trucking
Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo
Taking the verification and validation argument to the wider autonomous vehicle test and development community, a year on from ELIV.
The journey
Replacing the requirements tool with one of our own
PALM, an in-house application lifecycle management platform built to fit Level 4 systems engineering: developed top-down from stakeholder requirements, shipped fortnightly, and compliant with the same standards as the systems it manages.
Getting road approval in Germany and Spain
Announced in January 2026 and not yet under way. My scope is the German and Spanish legislative analysis, road approval for supervised public-road testing in both countries, and the test and release process from Scania set up again for a new customer.
PlusAI's SOTIF-driven V&V strategy for safe autonomous trucks
VDI
Presenting PlusAI's SOTIF-driven verification and validation strategy to the commercial vehicle electronics community.
Releasing an autonomous truck onto public roads
Bringing up scenario-driven testing for Scania in Sweden, from a blank sheet to a supervised truck on public roads and a fortnightly release, and then watching it become the TRATON programme's global process.
A mid-level sensor fusion model for 3D object detection
Technical University of Munich
Master's thesis on fusing sensor modalities before the detection stage rather than after it, written a year into working as a systems engineer.
Turning European road law into requirements
Joining as the eleventh member of the Munich office and building the discipline that turns layered UN, EU and German legislation into requirements a programme can trace.
Proving a truck safe enough to drive with nobody in it
Tech lead for the verification and validation strategy behind driverless operation: the objective evidence that has to exist before the safety driver can get out.
Proving a robotaxi can see a red light
Seven months on a perception validation team at one of the best-funded robotaxi companies in the world, building the metrics behind a single sub-claim of its safety case, and meeting Jama, safety cases and metrics for the first time.
Deciding what a LiDAR has to be able to see
Twenty hours a week on a four-person automotive team at a LiDAR startup, deriving what a sensor must do from crash-test regulation and from the driving task itself.
Predicting how other traffic will move
Semester thesis on a hybrid method for predicting the motion of other traffic participants, inside MAN's Hamburg TruckPilot project.
Making a driving simulator feel like a road
Improving noise, vibration and harshness fidelity in BMW's next-generation driving simulators, so that ADAS concepts could be judged before any hardware existed.
M.Sc. Automotive Engineering
Technical University of Munich
A master's in automotive engineering taken alongside four jobs, focused on automated driving and on the control theory underneath it.
A patent for detecting wheel spin
A method for detecting that a wheel has begun to spin, an order of magnitude faster than what was otherwise available, filed out of bachelor thesis work on a hybrid powertrain concept.
A control system for a hybrid's electric rear axle
Seven months employed full time in Volkswagen's longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics R&D department, writing a bachelor thesis inside a hybrid powertrain pre-development project.
Building a driverless race team from scratch
Three seasons in Formula Student Driverless, from the year the category was invented: Technical Lead, then Team Captain of a roster that had to be rebuilt from scratch, then the control software for a four-motor racecar.
A fleet manager for Audi's automated guided vehicles
Designing a fleet manager and a real-time visualisation of the production hall for Audi's automated guided vehicles, as an intern.
Building the obstacle the competition did not have yet
RoboCup@Work announced it intended to put mobile obstacles on the competition floor, so LUHBots set out to propose what one should be. I built it: a low-cost three-omniwheel platform, mostly 3D printed, that followed an arbitrary line on the ground.
B.Sc. Mechatronics
Mechatronics, and a bachelor thesis on controlling the all-wheel drive of a plug-in hybrid with an electric rear axle.
From competitive informatics to competitive robotics
Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science
Four years in an informatics-intensive class, seven hours of C and C++ a week, and then the robotics team: FIRST Lego League from a fixed kit, then FIRST Tech Challenge with Autovortex #5843, where the kit stopped being fixed and the answer stopped being bounded by anything except what you could think of.
Nothing in that category yet.
Where
- Munich, DE9
- Hanover, DE3
- Wolfsburg, DE2
- Stuttgart, DE1
- Madrid, ES1
- Bonn, DE1
- Södertälje, SE1
- Ingolstadt, DE1
- Bucharest, RO1
A map of these is the obvious next step.