Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi standing next to Fortuna

fortiss · Technical University of Munich

Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi.

I like taking systems apart to see why they break, then putting them back together better. Fortuna, the research vehicle on the right, is the biggest thing I have taken apart so far.

Researcher at fortiss, doctoral candidate at TUM, and technical lead for Fortuna, our autonomous-driving research vehicle.

Diagram showing the gap between an autonomous driving system's simulated behavior and its real behavior on the same road

The reality gap

Research.

How well results transfer between simulation and the real world, how to make a system more robust once that gap is measured, and how to reuse real driving data to make simulation more realistic.

Fortuna, fortiss's modified Passat GTE, with its roof-mounted camera and LiDAR sensor rack

The research platform

Fortuna.

A full-size, street-legal Volkswagen Passat used for camera- and LiDAR-based autonomous-driving research, which I brought back into operation after a period of inactivity.

Matthias Weil, Andrea Stocco, and Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi next to Fortuna

Students and courses

Teaching.

A practicum course on testing autonomous-driving systems, and the student projects I have supervised or co-supervised around it.

Diagram of the sim-to-real testing approach: a scenario runs through both physics and perception, is measured against real behavior, and mitigations feed back into the system

Selected work

Publications.

Peer-reviewed papers, executable tools, and replication packages.

Just for fun

Drive Fortuna.

I scanned Fortuna into a 3D model. Take it for a spin, no research question required.