Vayyar Imaging announced the launch of its new Automotive Evaluation Kit (EVK), representing a significant leap forward in the application of radar technology. The company’s new sensor kit delivers the world’s most advanced System on a Chip (SOC) for mmWave 3D imaging to the automotive industry. With this new sensor kit, Vayyar brings point cloud technology…
ESA Satellite Will Pierce Through Earth’s Canopies with Its Radar Antenna
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Biomass Earth Explorer satellite will start its 5-year global surveying mission in 2022. The spacecraft will chart the amount of biomass and carbon stored in Earth’s forests, as well as provide information on how woodland regions change over time. To capture these measurements, the satellite will use its radar antenna…
Raytheon’s SPY-6 Aces Most Complex Test Yet
Raytheon Company’s (NYSE: RTN) AN/SPY-6(V)1 air and missile defense radar completed its latest test, exceeding all performance requirements. In the most stressing test to date, the radar searched for, detected, and maintained track on the target as predicted. “Now in production, AN/SPY-6(V)1 continues to stack up test successes and milestones, proving the maturity of its design and…
Metawave Successfully Demonstrates 300 Meter Radar on Infineon Platform
Metawave Corporation today announced the first ever industry demonstration of advanced radar that is able to detect automobiles and their speed at 300 meters, and pedestrians and bicycles as far as 180 meters. Integrated with Infineon’s 77GHz radar chipset comprising of the RXS8160 MMIC and AURIX™ microcontroller, along with NVIDIA’s AI Processing Engine, Metawave’s development…
Fractals Brighten Radar Reflections for Driverless Cars, Satellites
Smart roads with self-driving vehicles are an innovation with big problems to solve. Now, Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. (FRACTAL) reports it has solutions to make road tags brighter to vehicular radar, for improved driverless tracking, and enabling the antiquation of LIDAR systems. The solutions also enable unique advantages for future flying cars/taxis, and even satellites.…
IMU Technology Forms the Brains of the Autonomous Vehicle
A self-guiding vehicle, like an autonomous car or a truck, requires a variety of different technologies to successfully navigate crowded city streets and highways. One of the more popular is lidar (light detection and ranging), which relies on pulsing laser light beams to create a precise 3D image of the local surroundings. Radar is utilized…
Argonne’s Innovative Community Software Is on Weather Scientists’ Radar
In 2015, the Python-ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART) made its open-source debut. After 4 years, and with contributions from 34 individual editors, it is now a staple in radar science. The toolkit helps scientists analyze radar data to improve models of the Earth’s systems; its growth illustrates the power of community software. Py-ART is an architecture…
Reducing the Variability of Automotive Radar System Performance
The automotive industry is in a race to bring more advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as active cruise control, emergency braking, and lane keeping to its vehicles. The increasing sophistication of these systems has, in turn, driven increasing demand for on-vehicle radar systems, to provide the information they need to make sense of their environment.…
Saving Albatrosses One Radar Tag at a Time
Albatrosses are large flying birds that dynamically soar above the open sea. Unfortunately, many albatross species are vulnerable, threatened, and endangered, but British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Seabird Ecologist Richard Phillips plans to help these daring seabirds. Shared amongst likeminded projects, Phillips will receive part of a £3.75 million ($4.9 million) award to attach radar tags to albatrosses,…
Radar Systems Ensure No Aircraft Goes Unseen at Al Udeid Air Base
At Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, 23 airmen from the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, Detachment 3, ensure no aircraft within a 240 nautical mile range goes unnoticed. Radar surveillance helps give the team a clear picture of the sky, according to the U.S. Air Force (USAF), specifically weather shielded transportable (TPS-75) radar systems. “We’re…