TUTORIAL AGENDA

9:00 AM

Registration

1.     Introduction/motivation, 55 minutes (AH)

• Accident statistics: improved road traffic safety required

• Innovative vehicle applications field:
  Advanced driver assistance and active safety systems

• Key requirements for the sensing systems

• Sensing technologies to be considered:
  radar, lidar, visible light camera, FIR camera, NIR camera, 3D camera

• Important trend: data fusion

2.     Radar concepts, 50 minutes (AH)

• General introduction on how radars work 

• Overview on pulse / pulse Doppler / FMCW / pseudo noise coded radars
  including signal processing

3.     Angle measurement 15 (AH)

• Beam steering: Mechanical, electrical, amplitude monopulse, DBF

• Angle measurement techniques including signal processing:
  Triangulation, multilateration, beam steering, beam switching, monopulse techniques.

• Network processing: Triangulation, multilateration, phase monopulse

• Phased array

12:00 PM

Lunch

4.     International frequency regulation issues, 25 minutes (AH)

• Frequency bands of interest

  • Ka band: 24 GHz ISM regulations

  • Ka band: 24 GHz UWB regulations

  • W band: 76-77 GHz regulation

  • W band: 77-81 GHz regulation

• Frequency regulation US / Europe /Japan 

5.    Practical examples (including characteristics), 55 minutes (AH)

• Long range radars at 77 GHz

• Short range radars

  • W band short range radars

  • Ka band UWB radars

  • Ka band ISM radars

• Perspective: High resolution imaging radar

6.     RF Realization and Technology Challenges, 25 minutes (MS)

• Available MMIC chipsets and limitations 

• Mounting & Packaging Technologies

2:45 PM

Networking Break

7.     Antenna Technology and Practical Considerations, 50 minutes (MS) 

• Characteristics and System implications 

• Phased arrays 

• Antenna switching 

• Digital beamforming 

• Practical Considerations

  • Alignment and Calibration issues

  • Cost drivers

8.     Technology Roadmap, 10 minutes (MS)

9.    Practical Examples, 20 minutes (MS)

• Modules

• Car Integration

• Digital beamforming @ 77 GHz

• 77 GHz SiGe MMICs

10.    Summary, 10 minutes

• Applications and trends

• Market & cost situation

11.    Open Discussion, 45 minutes (AH and MS)

5:30 PM

Adjourn

7:00 PM  

Social and Networking 

Reception & Registration

for

Workshop on

Driving Down Costs of
Millimeterwave Automotive Radar Sensors

Wednesday/Thursday, September 20/21, 2006

Workshop on 

Driving Down Costs of
Millimeterwave Automotive Radar Sensors

(Click here for agenda and registration) 

TUTORIAL INSTRUCTORS

Dr. Alfred Hoess

Dr. Hoess studied Electrical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen with special emphasis on high frequency technologies and signal processing. He then completed his PhD on high frequency ultrasonic imaging in Dermatology at Bochum (Germany). A large part of his work was focused on electronics and signal processing, in particular adaptive filtering and synthetic aperture focusing techniques, that are well known in radar technology.

In 1993 he became project manager for the development of a multibeam 77 GHz ACC radar including the entire signal processing chain. There he gained many practical experiences with FMCW radars. In autumn 1995 he joined the University for Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden, Germany (www.fh-amberg-weiden.de), where he is Professor for Electrical Engineering, System Techniques and measurement techniques, including radar sensing. In parallel, since autumn 1995, he has supported the industry in acquisition, management and technical consultancy in terms of national and international research projects.  In particular, one of his distinguished responsibilities is as  project manager for the EC project Radarnet focusing on a 77 GHz radar network. 

Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider

Prof. Dr. Schneider received the Diploma and Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Hanover, Germany, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he was with Bosch Telecom GmbH, Backnang , Germany , where he developed passive microwave components for point to point and point to multipoint radio link systems in the frequency range 3 to 28 GHz. In November 1999, he joined the Corporate Research and Advanced Development of Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim , Germany . As a project and section manager of the “wireless systems group” he focused on the research and development of phased array and smart antenna concepts for automotive radar sensors at 24 and 77 GHz. From December 2005 till March 2006 Mr. Schneider was with the business unit “Automotive Electronics – Driver Assistance” in Leonberg , Germany . As a section manager he was responsible for the “RF Techniques and Mechanical Car Integration” group for automotive radar sensors. Since March 2006 he has been a full professor and head of the department “Microwave Engineering” at the University of Bremen, Germany. His current research topics are RF front end circuits, millimeter wave circuit integration (SiGe MMICs), and antenna systems at millimeter wave frequencies. Prof. Schneider is a member of IEEE, VDE, and VDI.