Abstract:
24- and 77-GHz automotive radar sensors
have been introduced into series production by car
manufacturers. An application aiming to increase traffic
safety consists in detecting and tracking Vulnerable
Road Users (VRU) and vehicles in front of the car. This
is achieved by using a single 24-GHz radar sensor,
capable of measuring range, radial velocity and azimuth
angle even in multiple target scenarios. In this paper a
signal processing algorithm for target tracking is
presented. Target position and speed in Cartesian
coordinates are estimated with the aid of a Kalman
filter. The work is developed under the FP7 EC funded
project ARTRAC.