Distributed Signal Processing of High-Resolution FMCW MIMO Radar for Automotive Applications

Abstract

For automated driving applications, high resolution radar systems are necessary to extract more information about different types of objects in the environment. However, a single automotive microcontroller might not be sufficient to processing high number of transmit and receive antenna channels. Hence, in this paper, a system concept for distributed signal processing of high resolution FMCW MIMO radar has been proposed to highlight the feasibility using automotive microcontrollers. The execution time and computaional/memory requirements show the feasibility of such systems for automotive safety applications.