Data pre-processing for obstacle detection in automotive applications

We have worked on the design of a VAN (value-added network) system used in the French PROMETHEUS PROCHIP obstacle detection car demonstrator. This centralized demonstrator architecture shown its limits in 1994. Then we decided to compress the sensor data before conveying them via the network. This paper reminds of our contribution in PROCHIP project and presents our radar database, including the experimental and simulated data, and the radar data pre-processing.