Workshop Background:

This is the 5th IWPC Automotive Radar Workshop.  In the past, we had two workshops hosted by Daimler Benz, one with General Motors hosting and one hosted by SARA.

 

The automotive industry is facing unprecedented challenges, worldwide. The industry must continuously work together to identify new products and services consumers will be willing to pay for – AND keep costs as low as possible. Plus, the automakers are looking to the supply chain to take on a larger development role than ever before.

 

Currently it is reported that the take rate for options using automotive radar is low – because of cost issues and the difficulty of customers to understand the value of the applications based on these devices.

 

While today driver assistance systems can be realized using a radar with moderate resolution and sensitivity future safety systems require a much better information quality and reliability. This goal can only be achieved by a much better stand-alone radar solution, by fusion of long range and short range radar or by fusion of radar with video or lidar.

 

This workshop will focus on the radar sensors necessary for future sophisticated systems.

 

IWPC, to be the catalyst, desires to bring together ALL of the automotive radar stakeholders to explore the possibility of developing common automotive radar specifications for different applications – which the industry can use to reduce their costs, thru increased manufacturing volume.

 

To come closer to a common set of parameters a document is being developed prior to the workshop together with several automakers, which will anonymously list the individual OEM specifications desired for future radar sensors.

 

This document will form the basis of this workshop – as each sensor maker and supplier will be asked to address these specifications.

Workshop Goals:

To have a comprehensive dialog among ALL of the automotive radar stakeholders (the entire supply chain) to explore the possibility of developing a common set of automotive radar specifications which are hoped to drive manufacturing costs down.

 

Let us design the “right” radar for future needs!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

11:30 AM

Workshop and Tour Registration

1:00 PM

TEST Drive Demo

• Ford Motor Company, Delphi and Valeo will provide test vehicles equipped with the latest radar and related technology for drive testing on the Ford Motor Company Test Track.

At Ford Motor Company Test Track near Cologne, Germany

IWPC to provide bus transportation to/from Hotel, from/to Test Track.

Bus will leave hotel at 1:00 PM promptly.

7:00 PM

Social and Networking
Reception & Registration

At Hotel

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

7:00 AM

Breakfast & Registration

8:00 AM

Opening Remarks

8:20 AM

Self Introductions

Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process

9:10 AM

Keynote presentation

Active Safety & Driver Assistance Systems @ Ford - The Vision for Autonomous Driving

Manager, Chassis

Ford Motor Company, Germany

NOTE:  At author's request, this presentation will NOT be available in the post workshop "Movies" or in PDF Format.

9:55 AM

Networking Break

10:25 AM

Automakers applications and requirements

for affordable radar

• Most important active safety and driver assistance applications (ACC+S&G, FSRACC, CMBS, CAS)

  • Stand-alone radar based systems (LRR/MRR, LRR plus SRR) versus Sensor Fusion (Radar plus Video, Radar plus Laser based Systems)

  • Importance and contribution of radar for and to these applications and system approaches

  • What are the most important requirements for future radar sensors …

    • … in a stand-alone radar approach?

    • … in a fusion approach?

• Which expectation do exist regarding the radar sensor performance with respect to

  • Range, angle, speed resolution and accuracy

  • Sensitivity

  • Field-of-View

  • Reliability/safety requirements

    • Redundancy

    • Failure detection

    • Blockage detection

    • Misalignment correction

    • Interference-free operation

• Is it possible to find a radar that fulfils all the necessary requirements for the mentioned applications and systems?

• Is it possible that the automakers can agree on a common set of specifications?

A Demand On The Next Generation Automotive Radar

Chief Engineer
Automobile Advanced Technology Research
Honda R&D Europe (Deutschland) GmbH
 

Toward a Safe and Peripheral Field of View of Automotive Radars

Radar Systems Engineer
PSA Peugeot Citroen

Radar Sensors for Automotive Applications: Status Quo and Future Challenges

Manager Short Range Sensing

Daimler AG

12:25 PM

Networking Lunch

Special presentation

Review of Automaker's Radar Specifications Data

IWPC

1:45 PM

PANEL SESSION

Automakers

Confirmed:

• BMW

• Chrysler

• Daimler, AG

• Ford Motor Company, Germany

• GM

• Honda Research Corp., Germany

• PSA Peugeot Citroen

2:45 PM

Sensor Makers

• Sensor Maker’s view on importance of radar for the mentioned applications and system approaches

• What do Sensor Makers need to reduce costs of long/medium range radar sensors?

• What is the best radar architecture to meet the future requirements?

• Is it possible to agree on common requirements?

• Is this a feasible way to reduce cost?

77 GHz SiGe Based Radar Sensors for a Variety of Applications

Team Leader,

Chassis Systems Control

Robert Bosch

Challenges to Define and to Realize Cost Effective Radar Solutions for Today's and Future Sensor Functions

Head/Sensor Frontend

Continental Automotive

3:45 PM

Networking Break

4:15 PM

Sensor Makers

(continued)

• Sensor Maker’s view on importance of radar for the mentioned applications and system approaches

• What do Sensor Makers need to reduce costs of long/medium range radar sensors?

• What is the best radar architecture to meet the future requirements?

• Is it possible to agree on common requirements?

• Is this a feasible way to reduce cost?

24GHz, 2G, and 3G Automotive Radar Sensors Based on SiGe Technology

Managing Director

Smart Microwave Sensors

Frontside Looking MMWave Radar

Technical Support Eng.
Fujitsu Ten

26 GHz UWB Sensor Technology

Business Development Manager
Autoliv

Benefits of Data Fusion + Common Test Criteria Development

Engineering Group Manager

Delphi

6:15 PM

Adjourn for Day

7:00 PM

Bus leaves for:

Dinner,
German Style

Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

7:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM

Panel Session - Sensor Makers

Confirmed:

• Autoliv

• Continental Automotive

• Delphi

• Fujitsu Ten

• Hella

• Robert Bosch

• Smart Microwave Sensors

9:00 AM

Frequency Regulation Review

Frequency Management for Automotive Radar - SARA activities and the impact of regulations on technologies and automotive applications

Chair of SARA

SARA

9:30 AM

Cost-Benefit Analysis of auto radar

Cost-Benefit Analysis for ACC and Short Range Sensor - Methods and Safety Benefits

Professor of Economics

University of Cologne

10:00 AM

Networking Break

10:30 AM

Enabling Technologies

to meet these Common Requirements

• Semiconductor technologies (III-V’s, SiGe, CMOS)

• Integration approaches (SoC, only digital in- and output)

• Materials and Packaging technologies (SiP)

• Multi-band and multi-mode operation

• Antenna technology

• Digital beam-forming technologies

• Testing

Guidelines for Optimizing Material Costs

Technical Sales/

Service Engineer

Arlon Materials for Electronics

Fractional N PLL Based Frequency Sweep Generator for FMCW Radar

Design Engineer

Analog Devices

Radar Testing

Advanced Active Safety (GVeD)
Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe

plus

Ford Dearborn, MI

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Enabling Technologies

to meet these Common Requirements

(continued)

24 GHz Radar Transceiver on a Single Chip

Senior System Engineer
US Monolithics

A Low Cost and Versatile 77GHz GaAs Chip Set for Various Automotive Radar Architectures

Marketing Manager

TriQuint

Status update on the Freescale 77GHz SiGe components

Technical Manager

and

Operations Manager

Freescale

Leveraging a mmWave (71-76GHz) Comms RFIC for High Performance, Low Cost Radar Sensor

CTO

Siklu Communications

3:30 PM

Networking Break

4:00 PM

CLOSING PANEL

The host and other Automakers will be asked to recap the extent to which the workshop has addressed their wish lists.

Confirmed:

• BMW

• Chrysler

• Daimler, AG

• Ford Motor Company, Germany

• GM

• Honda Research Corp., Germany

• PSA Peugeot Citroen

5:00 PM

TakeAways & Closing Remarks

5:40 PM

Adjourn

7:00 PM

Dinner (Dutch*)

* = in this context, Dutch is a term which means that each person will be responsible for their own dinner costs.

For those who desire to join us, we get together to enjoy good friends, good food, good wine and [really] bad jokes

DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS:

Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: 

November 16, 2009

COSTS/REGISTRATION FEE:

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover out of pocket workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus 4 Breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, etc.

We estimate that these costs will be 798 Euros per person. (For IWPC Members, only.)

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.

Make checks payable to IWPC.

HOTEL:

Renaissance Duesseldorf Hotel

You can make your hotel reservations on-line at:

www.marriott.com/IWPCdusseldorf

Group Code: IWPIWPA

The IWPC room block rate is  99,00 Euros single occupancy.

Cut-off date for reservations is date,  November 17th. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

TRAVEL OPTIONS FROM AIRPORT TO HOTEL:  The hotel is only 2.5 miles from Dusseldorf Airport. 

AUDIO VISUAL:

A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.

In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.

BUSINESS CARDS:

Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.

DRESS:

Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!

HANDOUT MATERIALS:

IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.

For ALL IWPC members:

All IWPC members are invited to submit a maximum of 4 pages of materials to include in this handout binder. These pages should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:

You are invited to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

These materials will be copied and handed out at the workshop and included in the IWPC Web site.

Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.

Please send electronic materials using our FREE FTP link:

http://www.iwpc.org/cal/sitedrop.asp 

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