From Innovation to Reality: The Impact of Radar Technology in Advancing Autonomous Vehicles
The automotive industry has shifted from human-driven vehicles to autonomous vehicles in the last few years. At present, manufacturers compete to bring the most advanced autonomous vehicles. In this pursuit, they focus on R&D in sensor technologies, including RADAR, Lidar, and others. These sensors offer power and precision in self-driving vehicles. Radar technology is commonly used to calculate the range, velocity, and an object’s angle on land, sea, and air. It plays a major role in the advanced driver assistance systems, an intermediate phase in self-driving vehicle development. Microcontrollers in automotive radar systems The broadband Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave radar has become the dominant technology for automotive use because it combines high resolution in range and depth perception, with the detection of objects like pedestrians and bicycles in a small radar cross-section. In an FMCW radar, both transmitter and receiver operate continuously; the transmitter dep...