Imaging Radar for Autonomous Driving

Autonomous driving requires sensors that enable a good and reliable perception of the driving scene. The industry standard of multi modal sensing has been utilizing camera, radar and lidar. The radar is a very good sensor in adverse weather and in extreme lighting conditions. In this talk we’ll present the “Drive by Radar” vision and the derived requirements and challenges that an imaging radar for autonomous driving has to meet. The 4D apparatus will be described and the signal processing challenges it imposes. Real life imaging radar performance in challenging scenes will be presented to show that AD can be delivered using an imaging radar as a critical component of the Autonomous vehicle sensing suit.