Wednesday 9th October

12:30-13:30 - Lunch & Learn

Speaker: Asif Anwar, Strategy Analytics
Title: Future Technology Trends Bridging Automotive and Military Radar
Abstract: This presentation will discuss future trends impacting the design and future development of radar systems that will cut across both automotive and military systems as radar design evolves. Common themes include electronically scanned arrays, solid-state RF technologies and digital beamforming that will underpin systems capable of generating multiple beams to enable multi-role capabilities such as LRR and SRR functionality in the car or air-to-air tracking and SAR capabilities in a fast-jet. SWaP-C will be the other foundation dictating future radar design across both automotive radar and military radar systems.
                 The presentation is available on request


13:50-15:30 - Experience and Future Expectations Regarding Automotive and Military Radars

This session reports on the experiences obtained with radar sensors in many different applications. Advantages, weaknesses and further operational aspects will be described by users of highly sophisticated defence radars as well as low cost automotive  radars and other applications. It is the purpose of this session to show the remaining challenges for radar development and  production.

13:50 - 14:15:
Speakers: Christof Gauss, ADAC and Holger Meinel, Daimler AG.
Title: Comparative Test of Advanced Emergency Braking Systems
Abstract: According to the ADAC accident research team, rear-end collisions and accidents at intersections are the most  frequently occurring accidents. In such an emergency, driver assistance systems are able to help to protect car occupants against serious injuries, as tests with 10 today available and marketed systems have shown. ADAC therefore demands that all new registered passenger cars should be equipped with emergency braking systems.

14:15 - 14:40:
Speaker: Andreas Strecker, CASSIDIAN
Title: High Performance X-Band E-Scan Radar for Security Application
Abstract: Based on a radar originally developed for defence applications a family of modern X-band e-scan radars was developed, providing scalable performance and setting new standards. In order to benefit from commercial components and approaches, solutions coming from automotive sensors have been evaluated and used for the lower end part of the product family. Results and lessons learnt will be presented.

14:40 - 15:05:
Speakers: Tom Schipper, KIT and Alicja Ossowska, Valeo
Title: Automotive Radar Application in Difficult Environments (e.g. Tunnel)
Abstract: The widespread application of automotive radars faces a variety of challenges. In this talk more demanding environments, being rich of clutter or mutual interferences, are presented. The most relevant of those environments are identified based on recent – MOSARIM - study results.

15:05 - 15:30:
Speaker: Claudio Hartzstein, IAI
Title: Future Developments of ADAS Systems
Abstract: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) has come a long way since its coining as a concept which encompasses the introduction of intelligent systems which include different kind of sensors and software that actively intervene in the performance of the vehicle systems. Passive and active improvements of the vehicle to increase passenger and bystanders safety
were gradually incorporated: Laminated Glass Windshield (Ford, 1919), Seat Belts (Nash, 1949; Ford, 1955; Saab, 1958), Air  bags, etc... In the last decade, active systems using millimetre waves radar sensors,
infra-red lasers, mono and stereo cameras, rate gyros,... with the corresponding software governing actuators that release the driver from certain functions like keeping a safe distance from the preceding vehicle or keeping the vehicle in the lane or some autopilot functions that control the vehicle path in difficult situations where the adhesion of the tires to the road surface is low. Many of the "intelligent" systems incorporated or in full development in the last decade, are based in technologies developed in the  defence industry. This paradigm is to be analyzed more closely to clearly understand the differences between the automotive and the defence industry. These differences must be stressed to challenge the simplistic thought that a company operating in the defence industry can efficiently and economically develop and produce an ADAS system. This presentation will try to review some technologies that can be incorporated in future ADAS systems. The market penetration and therefore the effectiveness in
reducing the number of accident causalities depends much on the cost reduction of the present and future ADAS systems.