Automotive Radar Sensors for Semi-Automatic and Autonomous Driving and Parking Systems



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February 21-23, 2017

Where

INNSIDE Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg, Germany

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Introduction

Semi-automatic and autonomous driving is a major goal of all automotive OEMs worldwide and first vehicles are already available which allow automated or even autonomous maneuvering in confined scenarios. On the way to (semi-)automatic or autonomous driving functions all available technologies (radar, vision, lidar, ultrasonic sensors) are within the focus of the industry to provide the necessary data basis. Particularly radar is considered to be an indispensable building block in the environment perception architecture of modern cars. This workshop will provide an update on novel developments regarding automotive radar technology, performance, measurement, simulation, packaging, and fusion with other sensors to enable semi-automatic or/and autonomous parking and driving systems.

Workshop Goals

  • Provide information on status and trends regarding autonomous parking and driving applications.
  • Review the present state and novel developments in radar technology.
  • Present additional information on supporting technologies and activities (e.g. semiconductor and antenna technology, signal processing, fusion, functional safety, frequency allocation, etc.).
  • Create an open forum for the global automotive radar community to discuss requirements, technological opportunities, challenges, limitations, and trade-offs for/of radar technology.

Agenda

DAY 1
February 21

Tuesday

13:30

Demonstration

  • Registered members will be allocated to groups to be transferred from the hotel to experience four live automotive demonstrations from 14:00-17:30
  • Compact radar demonstration
  • Radar parking demonstration
  • Automated parking
  • Synthetic Aperture radar (SAR)

Registration at hotel

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18:00

Evening reception

Registration at hotel

DAY 2
February 22

Wednesday

07:00

Coffee and Registration

Hotel

 

08:00

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

09:00

Host Keynote

 

The Future of Sensor Technology for Autonomous Parking and Driving

 

Development Driver Assistance Systems

 

10:00

Networking Break

 

10:40

OEM Perspectives

  • Assessing the role and function of radar sensors for autonomous driving
  • Architecture plans for autonomous vehicles
  • Movement towards standardization of high bandwidth interfaces
  • Scalability and standardization
  • Strategy for centralized signal processing and data interfaces
  • Technical specifications, bandwidth, resolution, elevation of objects
  • System concepts to address key pain-points in the industry (centralized vs. de-centralized processing, high speed link needs, Fusion challenges, etc.)
  • What will be the optimum radar set - 2, 4, 8, 12 sensors?
  • How do they connect for 360 degree?
  • Tackling false positives
  • Working together - overcoming proprietary challenges to improve efficiency and time to market
  • Global trends towards autonomous driving
  • Type and number of radar sensor ECUs per car?
  • Power consumption target for radar ECU?
  • Power consumption target for radar sensor fusion ECUs?
  • Safety requirements for radar sensor ECU?
  • Radar sensor ECU communication interface ( CAN and/or Ethernet and/or FlexRay)?
  • System level automated driving level (Level-3 or Level-4)
  • Does future electrification of the car (mild hybrid, full hybrid) impact minimum battery supply voltage levels at which radar system has to be fully operational?

Carbon Material and Automotive Radar - Will They Become Friends ?

 

Component Owner Radar Systems

 

 

 

Volkswagen Park Assist: From Ultrasonic to Radar Technology

 

Project Manager

 

 

12:00

Networking Lunch

 

13:00

OEM Perspectives (continued)

  • How will radar and lidar combine for autonomous driving?
  • How you fuse radar into sensor fusion systems, having Radar, Lidar, and Camera working together?
  • Positioning of U-SRR in overall radar portfolio
  • What antenna types are preferable?
  • Is ultrasonic being replaced or still good enough?
  • Do future parking systems still need ultra-sonic?
  • HW spec U-SRR for parking+ (parking plus other features = multi-functional
  • Next generation functions, performance, size, power, cost requirements
  • Barriers to adoption of next generation capabilities
  • Adoption rate and timing of next generation capabilities

Cost Engineering Topics in Radar Sensor Design and Inside Car Communication

 

Product Cost Engineer

 

 

 

 

13:40

Tier 1 Perspectives

  • Requirements for autonomous systems, Sensor set-up requirements - level 3, 4, 5 demands
  • What kind of intelligence, central unit interfaces and connectivity architectures?
  • Standards based architectures - what will an autonomous driving level 4, 5 system look like?
  • Integration/packaging of radar sensors
  • Balancing performance and cost of radar systems
  • Will a single central unit or more be needed?
  • Smaller radar - shorter distances, MMICs
  • Fusing sensors for level 4, 5
  • System level performance - spatial resolution needed and corresponding silicon implications, including bandwidth, number of channels, etc.

Sensor Development for Autonomous Driving

 

Head of Design & Development Radar Technology

 

 

 

Pedestrian Detection With Radar Only

 

Signal Processing Engineer

 

15:00

Networking Break

 

15:20

Tier 1 Perspectives, continued

  • Considering central data processing
  • Utilisation of raw data without compression to enhance performance
  • (raw adc data at many MB/s vs a few objects over a CAN bus). An alternative architecture is one in which the raw ADC samples from the sensor head are passed on to a central ECU where all sensor data is processed together. This has several advantages, both in the physical implementation (weight/power dissipation of the radar "head") and on how information can be extracted from the data signals.
  • Pros and cons and discuss a demonstration platform.

Radar Based Satellite Architecture for Autonomous Driving Applications

 

Global Product Manager, Radar

 

 

 

Parking with SAR Radar

 

Radar Engineer

 

 

 

Automotive Synthetic Aperture Radar

CEO



 

 

 

16:50

Spectrum and Policy

  • Global Spectrum Management – Activities and implementations in support of more automated and autonomous systems in TTT (traffic and transport telematics)
  • Broadband system trends
  • 79GHz regulation status of Europe, USA, CHINA?
  • Can 79GHz radars replace front and rear ultrasonic sensors?
  • Vehicle design, location of high frequency sensors
  • Could 79GHz radar be used to perform localization (Calculation of a precise location)?

Activities in CEPT (European Spectrum Regulation) for Applications in Transport and Traffic Telematics including Sensors

 

Spectrum Management

 

 

 

17:20

End of Day Panel

  • What frequencies are being used for automotive Radar, 24, 77 and 79 GHz...?
  • What role will radar play in future autonomous driving systems?
  • What role does 24GHz Radar play in autonomous driving ?

 
   

18:10

Adjourn for Day

 

19:30

Networking Dinner - 

Altes Brauhaus zu Fallersleben

Bus transportation provided and will depart from hotel at 19:00

DAY 3
February 23

Thursday

07:00

 

Coffee and Registration

 

08:00

Chinese Market Perspectives

  • China Market Review
  • Automotive Regulations in China
  • New study and research
  • New generation radar sensors
  • How to overcome crosstalk and interference

 

Automotive Radar in China

 

Chief Engineer

 

08:30

Tier 1 Perspectives, continued

  • Segmentation and architecture, proprietary interfaces, v standards, centralized v distributed
  • Requirements for autonomous systems
  • Network architectures and interfaces. Partitioning of features
  • Data Communication Bus requirements
  • Interface speeds
  • Measurement requirements, environment scenarios, standardization on 77-91GHz
  • Radar requirements, slow moving objects, Open APIs, sharing raw data
  • Scalability of radar sensors (system and sensor level) processing
  • Parking with radar sensors
  • Future requirements for level 3 and level 4
  • Interference mitigation techniques
  • Decentralized system requirements - how do the sensors fit across platforms, architectural philosophy.
  • Taking processing out of the sensor - how and what can be achieved?

Additive-Functions of an Automotive Forward Facing Radar

 

 

Manager

 

 

High Efficiency and Small Antenna Technology for A Long Range Radar Using 77 GHz Band

 

Senior Researcher

 

 

 

79 GHz Radars in a Sensor Network for Highly Automated Parking

 

Radar System Architect

 

 

10:00

Networking Break

 

10:30

Tier 1 Perspectives, continued

  • Segmentation and architecture, proprietary interfaces, v standards, centralized v distributed
  • Requirements for autonomous systems
  • Network architectures and interfaces. Partitioning of features
  • Data Communication Bus requirements
  • Interface speeds
  • Measurement requirements, environment scenarios, standardization on 77-91GHz
  • Radar requirements, slow moving objects, Open APIs, sharing raw data
  • Scalability of radar sensors (system and sensor level) processing
  • Parking with radar sensors
  • Future requirements for level 3 and level 4
  • Interference mitigation techniques
  • Decentralized system requirements - how do the sensors fit across platforms, architectural philosophy.
  • Taking processing out of the sensor - how and what can be achieved?
  • 79GHz synthetic aperture radar on object detection and recognition

Object Classification using Kernel Learning with a 79GHz 3D radar

 

VP Radar

 

 

 

Smartmicro Radar Technology for Automated Driving

 

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

Self-Learning Methods for Automotive Radar Sensors

 

Manager, Radar Perception

 

 

12:00

Networking Lunch

 

13:00

Technology Enablers

  • Game-Changing Solutions to Next-Generation Automotive RADAR
  • Advantages of RFCMOS RADAR solutions and why they have the potential to replace
  • SiGe based sensor for all applications, integration levels and system partitioning
  • Is 28nm the sweet spot in terms of performance, power and cost and address new opportunities these sensors will enable?
  • Addressing FuSa challenges
  • What will be the optimum radar set - 2, 4, 8, 12 sensors and why?
  • How do they connect for 360 degree?
  • Tackling false positives
  • Innovative radar and antenna approaches
  • Antenna impact on system performance
  • How do we ensure accurate, updated and secure systems and information
  • Overcoming future technology hurdles
  • Trends in signal processing
  • Status of 79 GHz chip development
  • RF-CMOS vs. SIGE
  • RF Semiconductor requirements
  • • Radar integration, integration challenges
  • How does the industry prepare for high penetration of radar - interference challenges, detection performance
  • Passive component, key performance requirements and form factor
  • Angle resolution, transmit channels
  • Materials to enable radar sensors

 

 

Detecting and Tracking Slow Moving and Stationary Targets

 

Antenna and Microwave Specialist

 

 

 

 

Game-Changing Solutions to Next-Generation Automotive RADAR

 

General Manager, ADAS & Automotive Safety

 

 

 

Role of Radar in ADAS Systems

 

VP, ADAS Products

 

 

 

What to Consider when Choosing High Frequency Circuit Materials for Millimeter-wave Applications

 

Technical Marketing Manager

 

 

15:00

Networking Break

 

15:30

Measurement and Validation Panel

  • Impact of design/emblem radomes on radar
  • Mitigating interference and distortion
  • Working together - overcoming proprietary challenges to improve efficiency and time to market
  • Global trends towards autonomous driving
  • How simulation is being used for radar development and integration?
  • Exploring various drive scenarios
  • Radar and Lidar for autonomous driving – Presentation
  • Sensor for rain
  • Resolution, performance in weather systems
  • Hardware requirements
  • Methods for calibration of systems, sensitivity, alignment - re-calibration needs
  • MMIC development time
  • How do we ensure accurate, updated and secure systems and information
  • Radar sensor and ECU validation and test
  • Testing Challenges for automotive radar sensors and systems
  • Methods for calibrating the radar systems.
  • Sensitivity of the aim of the radar systems to the vehicle's travel path.
  • Methods for inspecting the calibration of the radar systems.
  • Methods for verifying that the radar systems are functioning properly

Automotive Radar Simulation

 

Director of Global Automotive Industry

 

 

 

Automotive Radar Interference and Integration Testing

 

Technology Manager

 

 

 

Impact of Modulation Parameters on Object Resolution

 

Strategic Product Planner

 

 

 

Radar and ADAS Functional Verification with Measurements, Simulation and Hardware In the Loop (HIL)

 

General Manager

 

 

 

17:30

Closing Discussion

     

 

Dutch Dinner

 

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