Sensor fusion system for pre-crash safety system

The objective of developing "ITS" is to realize driver convenience systems represented by ACC (adaptive cruise control), and to create active safety systems that realize an excellent vehicle safety performance. From February of last year we have, for the first time in the world, succeeded in creating a commercially available mass production pre-crash safety system (PCS) for excellent vehicle safety through developing and further evolving ITS technology applied to ACC. As the first crucial step in realizing an obstacle detection sensor was our development of "millimeter-wave radar." The second step was the successful development of a sensor fusion system integrating the millimeter-wave radar and a newly developed image sensor into the PCS system. By combining the vision-based obstacle detection system with the radar-based obstacle detection system, we have realized excellent obstacle detection performance.