"Present research activities and future requirements on automotive radar from a car manufacturer´s point of view"

Abstract

Automotive Radar has already found its way into nearly all car manufacturers portfolio, even for small car platforms. Over the decades, the performance requirements increased steadily from simple detector tasks in blind spot monitoring systems to multi range smart environment perception sensors. The utmost push in performance requirement is initiated with the trend towards highly automated driving. Future automotive radar systems have to provide imaging like capabilities and have to interact in radar networks, which allow for highly comprehensive perception tasks. The paper will provide an overview on state of the art automotive radar usage on the basis of the DAIMLER car platforms, will give an outline on future requirements for highly automated driving and will present recent approaches in radar based environmental perception.

Fusion of doppler radar and geometric attributes for motion estimation of extended objects

“…To the best knowledge of the authors, this method is the first technique that allows an explicit estimation of the full motion state in a single time frame. This reflects the fact that radar sensors play a decisive role for autonomous driving [5].…”

Research on Anti-Jamming for Vehicle Millimeter Wave Radar Based on Frequency Hopping Technology

“…With the increasing interest in autonomous driving, radar is becoming the preferred technology for safety and driving assistance applications such as blind spot detection, collision avoidance, and emergency braking [1] [2]. Due to its strong anti-interference ability, high ranging accuracy, strong penetration ability in complex environments, and all-weather performance, millimeter-wave radar can provide more reliable environmental perception [3].…”

Synthetic aperture radar for lane boundary detection in driver assistance systems

“…This mode of operation enables them to operate with good performance as multi-range detectors, but only provides a coarse azimuthal resolution [12]. For highly assisted and autonomous vehicles, it is perceived that current serial production automotive radars are unable to provide the required image like capabilities [13].…”