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Radar Scene Emulator Solution to Lab Test complex, real-world Scenarios

23 February 2022 - Keysight introduced the Radar Scene Emulator, which enables automakers to lab test complex, real-world driving scenarios, accelerating the overall speed of test. Full-scene emulation in the lab is critical to developing the robust radar sensors and algorithms needed to realize advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)/autonomous driving (AD) capabilities. 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.

Automotive companies understand how complex it is to test autonomous driving algorithms, and the safety issues at stake. Using full scene rendering that emulates near and far targets across a wide continuous field of view (FOV), Keysight's Radar Scene Emulator enables customers to rapidly test automotive radar sensors integrated in autonomous driving systems with highly complex multi-target scenes.

Keysight's Radar Scene Emulator allows customers to lab test driving scenarios as complex as the real-world, while emulating up to 512 radar objects and distances as close as 1.5 meters.

Keysight's Radar Scene Emulator employs patented technology that shifts from an approach centered on object detection via target simulation to traffic scene emulation.

"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."

Keysight's Radar Scene Emulator is part of the company's Autonomous Drive Emulation (ADE) platform, created through a multi-year collaboration between Keysight, IPG Automotive and Nordsys. 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."

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