ATRIUM: Test Environment for Automotive Radars

In the automotive sector, the importance of autonomous driving will continue to increase in the future, in addition to further development in the areas of vehicle safety and driving comfort. In order to be able to develop the systems required for this, the automotive industry is dependent on appropriate sensor technology that is able to reliably detect the vehicle's environment in real time and provide the system with additional relevant information. Radar, Lidar and camera systems are among the environmental sensors used in a modern vehicle. These sensors will play a decisive role in the future development of driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. For the development and testing of radar systems, a suitable test environment is needed to verify the reliable function of radar sensors. In this publication a new method developed at Fraunhofer FHR (Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques), is presented, which was implemented with the ID radar target simulator ATRIUM.