The original vehicle is a commercial fully electric RWD Ford Mustang Mach-e, model 2021. It has been retrofitted to the automated version by CERTH in collaboration with Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH (VIF) from Austria. The retrofit was funded 100% by the European research program SHOW, GA 875530 (H2020-DT-ART-2018-2019-2020 / H2020-DT-ART-2019).
To enable and support the automated driving functions, the vehicle has been equipped with various perception sensors, onboard processing computers and telecommunication modules.
While in automated mode the vehicle perceives the environment around it with the use of four (4) LiDARs and eight (8) cameras installed in specific suitable positions, providing 360o sensing coverage of the neighbourhood around the vehicle both in near and more distant field.

The AV is equipped with different communication means including 5G Rel. 16, DSRC V2X, PC5-sidelink C-V2X, RTK GNSS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi etc. Thus, the vehicle is able to communicate with its control centre for remote monitoring, mission planning etc and with the nearby V2X capable vehicles and infrastructure implementing modern C-ITS services and applications when available.
Four (4) dedicated computers are each responsible for specific tasks supporting the transformation of the vehicle into an automated one. The Automated Driving System (ADS) is running on an i9-13900 CPU with 64GB DDR5 RAM and an RTX 4070 GPU, the C-ITS applications and services on an i9-12900 with 32GB DDR5, the telecommunications on an i5-1145GRE with 16GB DDR4 and the cameras are being controlled by an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin with 64GB RAM.

A general but detailed architecture of the automated vehicle can be observed in the following diagram.

CERTH / HIT’s AV has already been tested in real life traffic conditions, co-existing with other traffic. It provided last mile robo-taxi services to passengers in Trikala, operating in mixed open traffic conditions, within the SHOW project pilots.