MOSARIM - MOre Safety for All by Radar Interference Mitigation
Overview
Background & policy context:
Since a number of years, millimeter-wave radar systems are being used for vehicular applications, predominantly in comfort functions, sometimes in safety functions. Different frequencies and modulation schemes, emission powers, and radiation patterns are being used, but so far hardly any measures or precautions had been taken to reduce or avoid mutual interference.
Within a few years the penetration rate of vehicular radar systems will have drastically increased in this new emerging market, and for safety-related applications especially the interference risk will threaten further proliferation if harmful mutual interference pops up. Trying to find efficient and pragmatic countermeasures to avoid the apparent interference risk at that point where severe interference problems creating malfunction or out-of-order situation of the safety radar devices have become reality, is too late. The only reasonable and valid approach is to counteract in advance, before the problem becomes manifest.
Objectives:
As there was almost no regulation regarding radar interference mitigation for automotive radars, this research project aimed to generate a first assessment, a common understanding of the interference effects and problems, and a first set of recommendations and guidelines to avoid inefficient interference troubleshooting at a later stage.
A well-selected consortium of specialists from all disciplines necessary to realize the project aims, became operational and prepared to tackle the demanding challenges. The project outcomes and results were vitally important for a long-standing success of radar-based devices for automotive systems.
The results of this project also laid the foundation for taking further steps in reducing the number of grave or fatal accidents caused by vehicles, after the EC forced all OEM's to make ESP mandatory in new cars. Missing the results that would be achieved within this project, would have had a severe and strong impact on the vehicular radar roadmap beyond 2015.
Methodology:
The methodology was broken down as follows:
- Assessment on actual radar interference potential with of-the-shelf radar sensors;
- Generation of a starting platform based on common understandings and state-of-the-art;
- Elaborate comprehensive and realistic simulation models regarding radar interference;
- Specification and implementation of a norm radar interferer for automotive radar interference tests;
- Find common applicable interference countermeasures to reduce mutual radar disturbance;
- Generation of recommendations and guidelines for vehicular mutual radar interference mitigation.
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