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Samuel Leitenmaier

Research Associate at Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg

Contact: samuel.leitenmaier@tha.de

Biography

Samuel Leitenmaier received his B. Eng. in Computer Engineering and M. Sc. in Applied Research on Computer Science from the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. He is currently a research associate at the Driverless Mobility research group. His main focus lies on the strong interaction between motion planning and scene understanding of autonomous vehicles with a special focus on heterogeneous computing architectures utilizing these.

Research interests

Autonomous Driving
Motion Planning, Navigation, Scene Understanding
Heterogeneous Computing with FPGAs
Efficient Hardware / Software using SoC

Publications

Towards Specialized Hardware for Autonomous Driving Functions: THAccelerated Motion Planner. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , Workshop RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware and Systems, 2025. Abstract
Autonomous Electric Race Car Inverter Development: Revving up the future with resource efficient drive technology. IEEE Electrification Magazine, vol. 11, no. 2, 2023. Article

Projects

THAMP: THAccelerated Motion Planner

This project developed as part of the Driverless Mobility research group at Technical Univeristy of Applied Sciences Augsburg.

Results

These results are part of HiL testing and real-world testing with a research vehicle. Four scenarios can be seen.

Straight Driving

HiL	Real-world

Parking Vehicle

HiL	Real-world

Overtaking

HiL	Real-world

Avoidance

HiL	Real-world

Yolov4 Edge Object Detection: Jetson TX2 vs. Utlrascale MPSoC

Metrics are: FPS, W. On Jetson TX2 jtop was used to measure power consumption, on Ultrascale MPSoC sysmonwas used.

Detected cars on THA campus using FPGA

Evaluation Hardware

Jetson TX2	UltraZed

Latency

FPS	Jetson TX2	UltraZed
Min	3.1	3.091
Max	3.4	3.202
Avg	3.3	3.134

Inference

Power consumption [W]	Jetson TX2	UltraZed
Inference Off	2.216	1.734
Inference On	9.955	2.641
Diff.	7.739	0.906