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With the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL) as a professional Sponsor, the 4th REFORMula Challenge Innovation Competition for Students – organized by the Mission for Engineers Foundation – will take place on 16 April 2024 within the framework of the professional day of the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). In the competition, teams of high school and university students will match their knowledge, skills and design abilities in topics related to autonomous systems as well as their religious knowledge.

The Tempus Public Foundation organised the International Conference of Stipendium Hungaricum Partners in Budapest on 20-22 November 2023. In the conference programme, a special place was given to the presentation of Hungarian higher education institutions and scientific research institutions, such as the Hungarian National Laboratories. Two national laboratories, the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory and the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems, both lead by HUN-REN SZTAKI, were also introduced at the event.

József Váncza, Head of the Research Laboratory for Engineering and Business Intelligence at HUN-REN SZTAKI, and leading researcher in autonomous robotics and manufacturing systems at ARNL, gave a plenary talk as an invited speaker at IMCC 2023, a major international scientific event.

On 15 November 2023, the annual autumn conference of the John von Neumann Computer Society was held at the premises of HUN-REN SZTAKI. This year's conference had the above motto and title.

The ARNL researchers' project proposal entitled "Distinguishing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from birds and other flying objects in 3D LiDAR point clouds" has been awarded a grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The winning research team consists of László András Majdik, PhD, Tamás Szirányi, DSc, Gábor Kovács, PhD, and Anita Keszler, PhD.

In the broadcasts presented in November two lead researchers of the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL), head and deputy of the Research Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence at HUN-REN SZTAKI, József Váncza and Gábor Erdős, also gave interviews and two invited speakers, Paul Shore and Peter De Wolf, were also introduced.

In case of mapping and object reconstruction tasks besides the calibration of the camera parameters evaluation of the precision of other system parameters (especially the orientation of drone and gimbal) is also important. Researchers of the HUN-REN SZTAKI, who are also active in the ARNL, designed and organized specialized flight tests in ZalaZONE Smart City to evaluate DJI M300 and Zenmuse P1 orientation precision.

It was experienced also by the researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI on a drone flight test in the sunset near Baracska, Hungary. The mentioned researchers are also active in the ARNL.

HUN-REN's SZTAKI researchers have been awarded a grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Their proposal entitled "Combining analytic and data-driven machine-learning based methods for efficient adaptive dynamic modelling" was prepared by Roland Tóth, Tamás Péni and Bálint Vanek, leading researchers at HUN-REN SZTAKI, all three researchers actively contribute to the research carried out at ARNL.