Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has introduced the Radar Scene Emulator. It enables automakers to lab test complex, real-world driving scenarios speeding the overall test. For the first time, it will be demonstrated at CES 2022, at Las Vegas Convention Center, West Hall.
Keysight is a technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world.To develop robust radar sensors and algorithms needed to realize advanced driver assistance system (ADAS)/autonomous driving (AD) capabilities, full-scene emulation is critical in the lab. Keysight’s full-scene emulator combines hundreds of miniature radio frequency (RF) front ends into a scalable emulation screen representing up to 512 objects and distances as close as 1.5 meters.
Testing autonomous driving algorithms and the safety issues are complex and critical for automotive companies. Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator enables the customers to rapidly test automotive radar sensors integrated in autonomous driving systems with highly complex multi-target scenes, using full scene rendering that emulates near and far targets across a wide continuous field of view (FOV).
The shift from an approach centered on the object detection via target simulation to traffic scene emulation, Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator is used to offer automotive OEMs multiple benefits. It allows radar sensors to see more with a wider, continuous FOV and supports both near and far targets. Using Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator, OEMs can emulate real-world driving scenes in the lab with variations of traffic density, speed, distance and the total number of targets. It provides a real-world environment for lab testing complex scenes.
“Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator offers automotive OEMs a breakthrough solution that will bring the road to the lab through full scene rendering,” said Thomas Goetzl, vice president and general manager for Keysight’s Automotive & Energy Solutions business unit. “The vision of fully autonomous vehicles is rapidly approaching, and we’re thrilled to be accelerating this vision into a reality.”
A multi-year collaboration between Keysight’s, IPG Automotive, and Nordsys had created Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator which is a part of the company’s Autonomous Drive Emulation (ADE) platform.The ADE platform exercises ADAS and AD software through the rendering of predefined use cases that apply time-synchronized inputs to the actual sensors and subsystems in a car, such as the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), vehicle to everything (V2X), camera and radar. As an open platform, ADE enables automotive OEMs, and their partners, to focus on the development and testing of ADAS/AD systems and algorithms, including sensor fusion and decision-making algorithms. Automotive OEMs can integrate the platform with commercial 3D modeling, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems and existing test and simulation environments.
“Automotive companies understand the complexity involved with testing autonomous driving algorithms and the quality issues that can result if that testing falls short,” said Cheryl Ajluni, director of Automotive Solutions Marketing at Keysight. “Keysight’s new Radar Scene Emulator, with its unmatched level of resolution, represents a significant leap forward for ADAS/Autonomous driving developers who value safety first.”
