Eric Pohl

Eric Pohl works at the DLR eV German Aerospace Center, where he develops automation systems for innovative vehicle concepts, integrating perception, planning and driving functions. Pohl comes from an electrical engineering background, having studied the field comprehensively through his bachelor's and master's degrees. During his bachelor's at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, completed in partnership with Siemens AG, he specialized in automation. He further deepened his expertise by earning a master's degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he focused on artificial neural network applications to enhance sensor processing.

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Presentation

U-Shift: modern challenges of a Level 4 self-driving modular vehicle

The DLR eV German Aerospace Center's Institute of Vehicle Concepts presents the architecture and challenges of the automated vehicle concept U-Shift. The presentation will provide an insight into the fully equipped sensor setup, autonomous stack architecture and safety concepts. Further, it will dive into the key challenges and the center's solutions for developing a modular vehicle with an automatic capsule changing system that does not feature any driver seat. This includes topics about sensor layouts for lidar, radar and camera, collective perception built on V2X, special driving cases like capsule docking and how to get a permit for BuGa23.