Keysight Introduces Radar Scene Emulator Solution to Accelerate Path to Full Vehicle Autonomy

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Keysight Technologies has unveiled its Radar Scene Emulator, enabling automotive OEMs to lab test complex real-world driving scenarios, enhancing testing efficiency and safety for ADAS and autonomous driving technologies. The emulator can emulate up to 512 radar objects, improving the detection capabilities of radar sensors. It will be showcased at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. Keysight's solution aims to address the challenges of testing autonomous driving algorithms by providing a deterministic environment for high-density scenes and advancing vehicle autonomy.

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• Introduced the Radar Scene Emulator, enhancing automotive testing capabilities.
• Enables testing of up to 512 radar objects, improving real-world scenario emulation.
• Accelerates ADAS/AD algorithm learning by allowing early complex scenario testing.
• Addresses safety concerns in autonomous driving with comprehensive scene testing.

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Provides automotive OEMs with full-scene emulation to lab test complex, real-world scenarios

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has introduced the Radar Scene Emulator, which enables automakers to lab test complex, real-world driving scenarios, accelerating the overall speed of test. Keysight will demonstrate the new Radar Scene Emulator for the first time at CES 2022, Booth #4169, Las Vegas Convention Center, West Hall.

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. (Photo: Business Wire)

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 employs patented technology that shifts from an approach centered on object detection via target simulation to traffic scene emulation, offering automotive OEMs the following key benefits:

• See the big picture: The Radar Scene Emulator allows radar sensors to see more with a wider, continuous FOV and supports both near and far targets. This eliminates the gaps in a radar’s vision and enables improved training of algorithms to detect and differentiate multiple objects in dense, complex scenes. As a result, autonomous vehicle decisions can be made based on the complete picture, not just what the test equipment sees.
• Test real-world complexity: Testing radar sensors against a limited number of targets provides an incomplete view of driving scenarios and masks the complexity of the real-world. Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator allows OEMs to emulate real-world driving scenes in the lab with variations of traffic density, speed, distance and total number of targets. Testing can be completed early for common to corner case scenes, while minimizing risk.
• Accelerate learning: Keysight’s Radar Scene Emulator provides a deterministic real-world environment for lab testing complex scenes that today can only be tested on the road. Its test approach allows OEMs to significantly accelerate ADAS/AD algorithm learning by testing scenarios earlier with complex repeatable high-density scenes, with objects stationary or in motion, varying environmental characteristics, while eliminating inefficiencies from manual or robotic automation.
• Improved scene resolution: The ability to distinguish between obstacles on the road needs to be tested for a smooth and fast transition towards vehicle autonomy (i.e., Level 4 and 5 autonomy as designated by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)). Keysight addresses this technology gap with point clouds (multiple reflections per object), which improves resolution for each object.

"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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About Keysight Technologies

Keysight delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow's technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments. Our customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.9B in fiscal year 2021. For more information about Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS), visit us at www.keysight.com.

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FAQ

What is the purpose of Keysight's Radar Scene Emulator?

The Radar Scene Emulator helps automotive OEMs lab test complex real-world driving scenarios, enhancing the development of ADAS and autonomous driving technologies.

When will Keysight demonstrate the Radar Scene Emulator?

Keysight will demonstrate the Radar Scene Emulator for the first time at CES 2022 in Las Vegas.

How many radar objects can the Radar Scene Emulator emulate?

The Radar Scene Emulator can emulate up to 512 radar objects.

What benefits does the Radar Scene Emulator provide to automotive companies?

It allows for testing against complex multi-target scenes, accelerating algorithm learning and improving safety in autonomous driving systems.

What technology does the Radar Scene Emulator utilize?

The Radar Scene Emulator employs patented technology for traffic scene emulation, enhancing radar sensor performance and decision-making capabilities.