Based on the KYBURZ PLUS, the research department developed the fifth autonomous vehicle in 2019, which was designed for passenger transport for the first time.  "Nina" is equipped with various sensors for localisation and obstacle detection and enables people to be transported without the intervention of a driver. It served as a development platform for the research department to investigate the interaction between man and machine and paved the way for the successor model "Stine". 

The ZHAW School of Engineering is now taking over the vehicle for scientific research. The team from the Safety-Critical Systems Research Lab and the students will be working on the vehicle from now on. The vehicle was delivered with demonstration software developed by our Franz Daxinger, which enables autonomous driving with a model predictive controller. There is plenty of scope to use the existing sensors with individual software as desired and thus change the behaviour of the vehicle time and again. 

KYBURZ wishes all those involved in the project lots of fun, curiosity and exciting hours of development with Nina and hopes that interest in autonomous electric mobility will be widely awakened and that a "hands-on" approach will promote a deeper understanding of such systems in the best possible way. "Nina" successfully delivered to the ZHAW in Winterthur.