My vision on the future of automotive radar! What is yours?

Future automotive radars will soon go back to analogue as it is the only way to overcome what are perceived as the limitations of conventional radars, in terms of reduction of both computational efforts and radio frontends complexity and mutual interference mitigation, by using agile waveforms based on pseudo-noise generation (analogue) electronic circuitry and metamaterial-based analogue beamforming. Ultimately, it will give room for artificial intelligence engines to be built into a complete radar package, leveraging radar solutions to the next level. This imposes stringent requirements to build an affordable, high performance analogue radar platform with the complexity and cost that one would see in military grade operations.

I am really pleased and honoured to have just delivered my keynote on "Future Automotive Radar Goes Back to Analogue" to a massive internet audience, promoted by #BOSCH PORTUGAL.

Please follow this link to watch my talk and do provide your feedback on the disruptive ideas for next radar generation: https://media.video.bosch.com/media/t/0_t5el3pb5 [in Portuguese]. This talk has addressed ongoing research topics by my research group towards the use of pseudo-noise based radar in real case scenarios, including a benchmark against well established commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) radar solutions. On the antenna beamforming technology, electronic tunable metamaterial-based solutions will be presented as a way to mitigate the extremely slow reaction speeds in fast time-varying scenarios using current market solutions and, thus, to create the opportunity to introduce artificial intelligence into all-encompassing radars platforms for target detection and identification in harsh environments. 

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