Near Range Target Generation By Direct Replay of Measurements

On the path towards higher automation in traffic scenarios, automotive radar sensors provide key information on the vehicles environment and show potential to facilitate the detection of traffic participants even under harsh conditions. Radar target simulators are used to simulate a virtual environment that enables a verification of the radar sensor functionality. This contribution presents the direct replay of measured vulnerable road user scenarios using a radar target simulator, that is designed to evaluate automotive radar sensors that are mounted for the detection of near surroundings of vehicles. For the evaluation, two measurements of a pedestrian and a cyclist that are recorded using a frequency modulated chirp sequence radar are used as input for the scenario replay.