karl.

Research Vehicle for Automated and Connected Driving

karl. is a customizable and extensible research platform designed for developing and validating innovative functions for automated and connected driving.

Sensors

  • 8 Stereo Cameras
  • 4+1 ToF/FMCW Lidars
  • 5 4D Radars

Connectivity

  • RTK GNSS/INS
  • ITS-G5 / C-V2X
  • Dual-Active 5G

Control

  • ECU Prototype for Longitudinal/Lateral Control

Compute

  • HPC GPU Linux Workstation
  • 2 Embedded GPU Linux SoC

Software

  • Containerized In-House ROS 2 Automated Driving Stack

Contact

Lennart Reiher M.Sc.
Group Leader Connectivity
+49 241 80-25614
Email

Privacy notice

If you would like to learn more about data protection when collecting video and image files in public road traffic for research, development and testing purposes in research projects, click here (german).

Service

Cooperations

Address

Institute for Automotive Engineering
RWTH Aachen University
Steinbachstraße 7
52074 Aachen · Germany

office@ika.rwth-aachen.de
+49 241 80 25600

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