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28th - 30th of March 2025

We are happy to announce that in March 2025 the 8th Autonomous Racing Workshop (ARWo) will take place at the University of Technology Hamburg (TUHH)!

The event begins on Friday evening with a team welcome and a poster session. The following days will be packed with talks and discussions until the end of the workshop on Sunday afternoon. Sign up for our mailing list to be the first to receive information on schedules, deadlines and all other things surrounding the workshop.

Important Dates

Date Event
2024-12-16 - 2025-01-19 Team Registration open
2024-12-16 - 2025-01-19 Team-Member Registration open
2025-01-19 Contributions deadline
2025-01-26 Ticket confirmation
2025-03-02 Submission deadline for the A0 Posters
2025-03-23 Submission deadline for presentation slides
2025-03-28 Team arrival, poster session and opening ceremony
2025-03-30 End of the ARWo (around 4pm) and see you in summer!
Your next steps: Sit back and relax until the registration opens. We will provide further information until then. Subscribe to the mailing list to stay up to date!

The Workshop

Our goal for the workshop is to bring Formula Student Driverless teams together for an informal exchange. We will provide the framework for a networking event where teams can present their work in talks and discuss topics with fellow students from other universities.

All Formula Student Driverless Teams, independent of prior or future participation in official events, are invited to join us in Hamburg, free of charge. The Autonomous Racing Workshop is organized by current and former members of the Formula Student Team e-gnition Hamburg.

The event consists of two main elements:

> Talks of experts from the industry that will give short insights into their autonomous driving applications
> Open talk sessions which consist of prepared talks, open discussions, programming sessions or demos on topics concerning autonomous racing. Therefore, the workshop lives from the participation of all registered teams.

Stay up-to-date!

More information about the workshop will follow by mail or on the Instagram account of e-gnition Hamburg. If you are not yet part of the ARWo family and would like to participate, please subscribe to our mailing list below.

Contact

If you have any questions, suggestions or want to support the event as a sponsor, feel free to contact us via e-mail to info@arwo.hamburg.

Impressions

Take a look at our collection of aftermovies and pictures from recent workshops.

ARWo 2023 Aftermovie

ARWo 2019 Aftermovie

Photos

Venue

Technische Universität Hamburg Building I Denickestraße 22 21073 Hamburg


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FAQ

Please note that this information is provisional. We may update details until the registration period starts!

What is the ARWo and how does it work?

The goal for the workshop is to bring Formula Student Driverless teams together for an informal exchange. We will provide the framework for a networking event where teams can present their work in talks and discuss topics with fellow students from other universities.

The workshop is only as good as its participants. In order to have a great workshop we are asking YOU to prepare material in your field of knowledge (relevant to FSD). Be it unfollowed ideas, failed concepts or impossible solutions, all of these might be worth sharing with others. Supporting material really helps the exchange and is highly appreciated and very useful to be used in discussions to better explain and visualize thoughts, concepts, ideas, problems and solutions. Wihtout preperation of materials the effectiveness of Workshops declines drastically, mostly due to our very limited time together.

Talks and Posters

All participating teams are required to prepare a poster about their driverless concept. We will discuss those in a poster session with food and drinks on friday evening. This poster session will help all teams to see different concepts and spark some ideas for their own development. The poster is mandatory for all teams, even if you did not build a DV car yet. You can use the chance to present your ideas and concepts for a DV car to a broad audience with valuable FSD experience. We will contact all participating teams for further details about the posters via e-mail.

In addition, teams are requested to prepare talks for the ARWo. Preparing a talk is mandatory if you want to bring more than three team members. Further information will be announced when registration is open.

If you have further questions or ideas for contributions to the ARWo, contact us via mail info@arwo.hamburg.

Fees and Accommodation:

Your participation will be free of charge. Also, breakfast, snacks and drinks will be made available free of charge. Dinner will be available for a very small fee.

As we cannot provide accommodation for over 200 guests, we ask you to organize your accommodation (Hotel/Hostel/Airbnb etc.) yourself. Please consider for the choice of your accommodation:

  • All talks and official gatherings will be at the venue (see below)
  • Breakfast and Food will be provided at the venue.

We recommend the area around the Hamburg Central Station, as it has a good connection to the venue as well as the nightlife.

A few recommendations include:

Generator Hostel
A&O Hamburg City
Superbude St. Georg

Number of participants

Every Team Member can contribute to the workshop by sharing their knowledge in presentations and discussions about their field of interest, concepts and ideas. To encurage this, the amount of participating team members per team is tied to the amount of contributions. Every team is allowed to bring up to 3 members and more team members are possible the more contributions your team makes. Returning ARWo alumni are always welcome and can come along without requiring a team member slot.
Since we want to allow as many teams as possible to join the ARWo, while space in our buildings is limited, we may have to limit the number of team members per team, depending on the registrations.
Hence, please do not book travel and accommodation before we confirm the number of slots.

Financing

Making the workshop and most of the daily meals free of charge is only possible with the support of our partners and sponsors from the industry. If you are interested in supporting the event with your company, feel free to contact us via e-mail info@arwo.hamburg.

Venue:

  • All talks and official gatherings will be located on the Campus of Hamburg University of Technology
  • Car parking is available on the streets near the venue and in the parking garage of the university on demand

What you should bring with you:

  • Please prepare slides that can be used to present a talk or to facilitate the exchange during a discussion
  • Please prepare a poster about your driverless concept for the poster session. Additional information as well as a template will be published with the registration.
  • Bring slides about topics you want to discuss
  • You can present your current approach or possible ideas and discuss with others
  • Prepare questions about topics you are interested in
  • Laptop with dev stack, code base (→ ready to code) and/or CAD models