Distributed Signal Processing of High-Resolution FMCW MIMO Radar for Automotive Applications

For automated driving applications, high resolution radar systems are necessary to extract more information about different types of objects in the environment. However, a single automotive microcontroller might not be sufficient to processing high number of transmit and receive antenna channels. Hence, in this paper, a system concept for distributed signal processing of high resolution FMCW MIMO radar has been proposed to highlight the feasibility using automotive microcontrollers. The execution time and computaional/memory requirements show the feasibility of such systems for automotive safety applications.