Automotive radar for adaptive cruise control and collision warning/avoidance

This paper discusses the application for autonomous intelligent cruise control (AICC), also called adaptive cruise control (ACC). Tests have however, also indicated the radar's capability for the much more demanding application: collision warning/avoidance (CW/A). CelsiusTech Electronics (CTE) has a long experience in millimetre wave radar, which was used for initial testing within the Swedish car industry of a fully automatic ACC. The results of the tests were very gratifying and CTE is now in the process of full scale development, engineering, and preparations for large scale production, e.g. the design of ASICs. As an interim, a number of "second generation prototypes" called "X-models", are now being manufactured.