Keysight Technologies is expected to shorten testing time and accelerate the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles by enabling testing of fully autonomous vehicles in the laboratory under real-world road conditions.

Keysight Technologies announced on the 20th that it recently announced a Radar Scene Emulator that can help automotive manufacturers test complex real-world road environments in the laboratory, thereby reducing overall test times.

Full scene emulation in the laboratory is essential for developing powerful radar sensors and algorithms required to realize advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD).

Keysight's Full Scene emulator combines hundreds of miniature radio frequency (RF) front ends into a scalable emulation screen, capable of representing up to 512 objects and distances as close as 1.5 meters.

Automakers understand how complex testing autonomous driving algorithms is and how critical safety issues are.

Keysight's radar scene emulator enables rapid testing of automotive radar sensors integrated into autonomous driving systems with highly complex, multi-target scenes through full scene rendering that emulates near and far targets with a continuous, wide field of view (FOV).r />
Keysight's radar scene emulator employs patented technology that transitions from an object detection-centric approach through target simulation to traffic scene emulation, providing automotive OEMs with: △premise picture viewing, △complex real-world testing, △accelerated learning, and △improved scene resolution.

“Keysight’s radar scene emulator provides automotive OEMs with a breakthrough solution to bring the road into the lab with full scene rendering,” said Thomas Goetzl, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s automotive and energy solutions business unit. “The vision of fully autonomous vehicles is rapidly becoming a reality, and we are thrilled by the pace at which it is happening.”