[Demo] Engineering Workflow, Reimagined with Agentic AI.

Having spent years working with engineering design, optimization, control using simulation and AI technologies, I have …

JSAE Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan 2026

Had a nice week in the Japan office with Siemens and Altair colleagues, presenting at JSAE and a packed schedule of …

[Paper] Graph Learning for 3D Engineering AI: Explainable Workflows

When working with industrial AI, training a high performance prediction model is only one part of the challenges. Other …

[Paper] Is this the real driver, or is it just a robot?

A study of human-like autonomous driving controllers in a driving simulator just got published in Transportation …

[Paper] Automotive Engineering-Centric Agentic AI Framework

AI Agents and Agentic AI are increasingly considered in engineering workflows, not just for coding, reasoning, but also …

[Blog] Siemens blog and video on robotics

As the robotics revolution accelerates, one of our key visions is to combine simulation with real world testing across …

Visit and give Seminar at Oxford Control Group

Last week, I had the pleasure visiting the Oxford Control Group to give a seminar and exchange ideas with faculty …

PhDs Defense Juries

In recent months, I’ve had the great honor of serving on PhD Defense Juries of four PhDs:

EU RobustifAI project General Assembly Meeting

It is great to welcome partners and colleagues from the EU RobustifAI project (Robustifying Generative AI through …

[Demo] Industrial AI: CFD PhysicsAI

The next wave of Industrial AI is accelerating, with physics-aware, trustworthy, and integration into engineering …

A presentation cover you don’t see every day...

The nice image comes straight from the actual research & development results. From right to left, you can see the …

Swiss NCCR Automation project on Robotics

It is a pleasure working with Prof. Alisa Rupenyan-Vasileva and the Postdoc Gabriele Fadini (ZHAW Zurich University of …

[Demo] From Crash Data to Simulation Model

Connecting real crash data with standards (Euro NCAP, UNECE, ISO…) and ASAM OpenSCENARIO model

Formula Student Germany 2025: Jury and Lecturer

I’m grateful to have participated Formula Student event this year again as a Judge for the driverless racing category, …

[Industrial PhD Position] Co-supervise with Univ. of Oxford

FYI, interesting PhD position on data-driven optimal control for Air Mobility and Battery Management in Oxford Control …

Suspension design: from 1D target cascading to 3D requirements

Nice pieces on suspension design, from 1D target cascading to 3D design requirements.

New Horizon Europe project RobustifAI: Robustifying Generative AI through Human-centric Integration of Neural and Symbolic Methods

Launched in June 2025 with a total budget of 9.3M€. The project aims to develop a rigorous design and deployment …

[Demo] Real2Sim and to ... Movies

Bring Real data into Simulation (Real2Sim) and to... Movies.

[Demo] Real2Sim - Sim2Real

Bridging the gap of Real and Simulation (Real2Sim - Sim2Real) toward engineering values is interesting and motivating to …

[Demo] Explainable MPC Control

One often overlooked topic in control systems engineering is explainability. Control engineers are typically trained, …

[Demo] Real2Sim Gaussian Splatting with Materials & Textures

When reconstructing 3D traffic model from real world data (Real2Sim), one of the challenges is incorporating physical …

Munich Autonomous Driving Meetup

I am honored to have opportunity to speak at this distinguished gathering alongside experts in AI and industry

Discussions with Prof. Holger Caesar

Great discussions with Prof. Holger Caesar (Intelligent Vehicles Group, TU Delft) with his visiting to our R&D team in …

[Demo] Real2Sim Gaussian Splatting

Transform the vehicle sensor data into a large AI neural network model. The Gaussian Splatting model captures very well …

[Postdoc Position] Digital Twin for Robotics

Nice joint research project that combines academic and industrial environments. You will work on state of art control …

European Horizon Projects

In the coming days, I will be participating the two EU forums related to AI, robotics and autonomous driving.

[Paper] IROS 2024

Driving from Vision through Differentiable Optimal Control

[Papers] Human-centric AI in IEEE IROS and InCabin conferences

A great pleasure to have our two research engineers going to present the company Siemens Digital Industries Software R&D …

Sim2Real Automatic Calibration MPC Control

Autocalibration control technologies can drastically reduce time and cost for engineers when moving from simulation to …

[Paper] 8th IFAC NMPC2024 Award]

From my industrial PhD Jean-Pierre: Proud and honored to have won the Young Author Award at the 8th International …

[Demo] Real2Sim nScenes dataset]

While simulation continues to play an important role in autonomous driving development and validation, one of the main …

GenAI Stable Diffusion Scenario Generation

Generative AI opens capabilities to generate video. Still, the applications are mainly in entertainment, advertisement …

L4DC Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference 2024

Pleasure to have Siemens and our activities on autonomous driving being shown in the L4DC conference

DriveTwin: Digital Twin of Autonomous Driving

Data is very valuable for autonomous driving/ADAS engineers, i.e. training & validation of ADAS functions such as …

Generative AI Vision Language Model (VLM)

I believe not only me but many autonomous driving engineers/researchers once has a dream that one day the vehicle sensor …

[Paper] JSAE2024 Congress

Together with Siemens colleagues in Japan, we are happy to jointly presenting our recent technologies on logged data and …

Legged Robot: Sim2Real

Data-driven control has become more popular recently, where measurement data is exploited to design higher performance …

[Paper] Data-driven Control for Human Driving Preferences

Getting more insights of human driving preferences (i.e. when and how to brake, steering at different traffic …

Visit and Give Seminar at Oxford Control Group

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Oxford Control Group and deliver a seminar there. It was an excellent …

[Paper] Real-time Safety-critical NMPC with Control Barrier Function (CBF)

4-5 years ago we developed an intuition to deal with this challenge, learning from control barrier function (CBF) from …

Visit and Give Talk to Prof. Holger Caesar's Group (Intelligent Vehicle, TU Delft)

Real2Sim from nuScenes, Waymo dataset to Simulation

Autonomous vehicle dataset such as nuScenes, Waymo Motion, or your own collected one, is known valuable for algorithm …

BeCAREFUL: Belgian Consortium for Enhanced Safety and Comfort Perception

The goal of this project is to enhance safety and comfort in autonomous driving. Altogether we are developing and …

EU Project: FOundations for Continuous Engineering of Trustworthy Autonomy

While keep pushing the boundary of AI technologies in safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicles and medical …

[Demo] Real2Sim Waymo Dataset

Bring real collected data into simulation (Real2Sim) is essential activity in ADAS testing, allow engineers to test …

Industrial Master Thesis Students

This semester we have a pleasure to welcome two Master thesis students working full time with our ADAS team in Siemens …

Drift Control

This picture shows a Digital Twin vehicle together with the real Red Bull F1 vehicle (that Siemens partnering with), …

[Demo] Active & Lively Logged ADAS dataset

ADAS or autonomous driving dataset is captured from vehicle sensors, and often used for perception algorithms or motion …

Perosnal Notes

Today marks my 7-year PhD graduation from KU Leuven as well as the time working at Siemens Digital Industries Software. …

Lecture to FSG Formula Student Germany Teams

Following the exciting Formula Student event last month, FSG and Siemens is organizing a workshop where we will show …

[Demo] Real-time MPC on a Munich street

See following demo from Siemens research engineer Jean Pierre Allamaa, done within the EU ELO-X Marie Curie project and …

[Demo] ADAS Comfort

SADAS performance is often evaluated based on safety, and from the outsider's perspective, i.e. check if there is a …

[Papers] IFAC World Congress 2023

1. Reinforcement Learning from Simulation to Real World; 2. MPC-Based Imitation Learning for Human-Like Autonomous …

[Papers] European Control Conference (ECC) 2023

Data-driven control: advanced optimal control, imitation learning, driver behavior models, reinforcement learning

with Formula Students

A great pleasure to act as a judge for the interesting Formula Student Germany event this week, in the driverless …

KU Leuven Control Group Visits Siemens

It was exciting to welcome the MECO group from KU Leuven last Friday at Siemens Digital Industries Software in Leuven.

Two visiting PhDs

This period we have had a pleasure to welcome two visiting PhDs: Shuhao Zhang and Renzi Wang from KULeuven, who are …

Keynote Talk in the Robotics and Digital Twin workshop of EPSRC and UKRAS Network today

Glad to see quite some Digital Twin research activities from UK robotics and control peers in the workshop.

Multi-agent Interactive Traffic Model

Learning from human driving demonstration is an interesting approach to improve autonomous driving policy. Still, it has …

[Papers] IFAC World Congress

It is a nice way to start the weekend after a busy week: Our ADAS R&D team just received notifications that 3 papers got …

Sim2Real Reinforcement learning (RL)

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown capabilities to deal with complex systems, including autonomous driving. However, …

[Paper] MPC-based Imitation Learning for Human-like Autonomous Driving

This paper draft is a nice piece of writing with quite some works, discussions, demonstrations, and evaluations on …

Interview at Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem

with TU Berlin and University of Oxford. Thanks again Siemens RIE colleagues, Ilaria and Susanne to make this nice …

EU FOCETA project

We are working together with other EU partners to develop continuous engineering of trustworthy autonomy and implement …

Executable Digital Twin (xDT)

a self-contained virtual representation that models physical behaviors and combines with physical data to provide …

3D Munich Model

Significant efforts have been also devoted to building and tuning a large and high quality 3D Munich city model (on …

Speaking in San Jose ADAS &AV Tech Expo

I will be speaking in the ADAS &AV Tech Expo next month in San Jose. Hope to see and exchange with you there.

Speaking in AutoSens

I will be speaking in AutoSens, Brussels

Best Junior Presentation Award at 41st Benelux Meeting on Systems and Controls

The industrial PhD of Flavia is tackling some very interesting research, and this nice Award apparently shows a concrete …

EU ELO-X project Workshop

This week we just organized a workshop in Leuven office for the Marie Curie ITN ELO-X supervisors and ESR fellows.

Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2022

Happy to share some of our team recent works and results on multiple topics around autonomous driving technologies …

ADAS Comfort Interview

An interesting interview on the topic of ADAS comfort, made by Siemens Simcenter Engineering with our ADAS research …

Industrial Speaker to the Automation and Control Engineering Program of Politecnico di Milano

Today I got a great pleasure to be an invited industrial speaker to the students of the Automation and Control …

[Paper] Real-time Nonlinear MPC Strategy with Full Vehicle Validation for Autonomous Driving

We present the development and deployment of an embedded optimal control strategy for autonomous driving applications on …

The Role of Vehicle Dynamics in Autonomous Driving?

We show a demo comparison for an autonomous lane change scenario, where the same vehicle control system was applied to …

New Master Thesis Students from TU Delft

Covid time and new rules make it harder for both companies and universities. Still, this semester our R&D team at …

[Paper]  IEEE IV 2021, IEEE ITSC 2021, JSAE 2021

In the last few months, we have made some more progress to tackle some autonomous driving challenges in industry.

[Demo] Testing on Real Vehicle

Testing and validation are big challenges in the autonomous vehicles driving industry. Your ADAS engineers keep …

Model predictive control (MPC) has become popular in autonomous control.

The key is to optimize control actions over a prediction horizon, which is often short due to computation.

IEEE Control System Society Associate Editor

This is my third year serving in the control system society as Associate Editor for conferences like CDC and ACC. A …

Got the news from a previous thesis student just started his job at Siemens.

Great to hear that. Looking back I have supervised some students doing thesis/internship in the company in the last 2-3 …

Push Control to the Limit

People actually wants more from autonomous car, be cautious but also aggressive when necessary, be able and flexible …

[Demo] From Development (Perception, Planning, Control) to Validation Framework

Besides, a nice example of collaboration not only within the team engineers but also with Marketing dept., who captures …

[Demo] Designing ADAS algorithms to Enhance Safety and Comfort

Next challenge is having an efficient framework from simulation to physical testing to validate your designs. This demo …

IEEE CDC 2020

If you are participating and interested in automotive & autonomous vehicle, please consider the automotive control …

[Demo] Vehicle Dynamics is Essential in Driving Performance.

Vehicle dynamics is essential for autonomous driving, in both safety and comfort performance. We show how to build a …

White Paper on Driving Strategies

Several interesting advanced control technologies will be discussed there: MPC, combined model-based and AI or data …

[Papers] IEEE CDC 2019, IEEE CCTA2020, IEEE ACC 2020, IFAC World Congress 2020

With the CCTA accepted paper, we are happy to be involved and show our innovative solutions in the recent four largest …

Whitepaper on ADAS Testing & Verification

A nice work and interesting whitepaper from Siemens DI colleagues on autonomous driving scenarios testing, verification …

AutoSens Finalist Award: Most Influential Research Category

It is my great pleasure to be in the finalist of AutoSens Award in the Most Influential Research Category for the our …

2018 Siemens DF PL Invention of the Year Award

I'm proud to have received the 2018 Siemens DF PL Invention of the Year Award. The solution will be contributed to …

Seminar in EPFL Lausanne, Automatic Control Laboratory

A great pleasure to visit Automatic Control Laboratory (LA) and Prof. Colin Jones