Workshop on Automotive Radar Measurement Solutions

Automotive radar at 77 GHz is in production and thus on the road since 1998. However, only recently the production numbers have exploded. In 2015 Mercedes-Benz has reportedly installed more than 2.5 Mio. Radar units (77 & 24 GHz,respectively, in its newly delivered cars). Two of the big 4 – Bosch and Conti – have delivered more than 2 Mio. Radar sets each until today. Valeo presented a 77 GHz radar architecture based on LTCC for mass production at the EuMWeek 2016 in London.

Up-to-now OEMs just sell their cars – and that’s it. In the future we will need maintenance facilities at the dealership of the different OEMs. A 77 GHz sensor on the road for 100,000 km and being nearly 10 years old must still be able to perform faultlessly! Measurement approaches for this purpose (OTA - over-the-air) as well for end-of-line production will be reviewed here.