Automated Vehicles Symposium 2019

Lutz Eckstein
Director
Institute of Automotive Engineering, RWTH Aachen University


Dr. Lutz Eckstein chairs the Institute for Automotive Engineering of RWTH Aachen University, one of the leading technical universities in Germany. He has been appointed in 2010, having been responsible for safety assurance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems at Daimler AG followed by senior management positions in the Eletrics/Electronics Division of BMW AG. Lutz Eckstein dedicates his work to improving Active Safety while at the same time creating new dimensions of driving experience, which is documented by numerous patents and publications. He is deeply involved in the PEGASUS project family addressing safety assurance of automated driving and at the same time coordinator of UNICARagil, a large project funded by the German Ministry for Science and Education (BMBF) aiming at an agile architecture for driverless vehicles by combining the competences of eight German universities and selected companies.

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