mmWave Dual-Beam Phased-Arrays including Down-Conversion with Smart Data Fusion for Autonomous Driving

The combination of cognitive mm-Wave Dual-Beam (DB) MIMO Phased Array systems with optical sensing solutions is proposed, targeting new functionalities for environmental perception and ubiquitous interactions. The resulting paradigms exploit the fusion of mm-Wave and optical sensing solutions to enable emerging technologies facilitating interactions of humans with smart devices and systems in randomly changing environments. Perspectives for autonomous vehicles with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), including Gesture-Recognition (GR), through ubiquitous interactions based on hybrid cognitive mm-Wave RFIC technologies and optical systems, are drawn. Several hardware realizations of mm-Wave phased-arrays are built and co-assembled with optical systems for smart data fusion and real-time signal processing for an autonomous secure decision-making process. A unified modeling and measurement platform is proposed with the concept of Multi-Physics (EM-thermal-mechanical) Numerical-Co-Simulation-Clone (NCSC), seen as the counterpart of the functional hardware, which enables 4D (space-time evolution) of augmented reality.