SENSOR SYSTEM FOR THE SAFE DETECTION OF PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TRAFFIC

A critical challenge to the successful introduction of autonomous driving into road traffic is the safe detection of pedestrians and cyclists. Today's optically effective passive reflectors, familiar from bicycles, are useless in daylight, fail in fog, and alter clothing design. Active warning emitters, on the other hand, require batteries that are difficult to integrate into clothing and can fail completely.

The central goal of SeeYOU is therefore the development of a novel RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) system based on passive and thus battery-free reflectors, which reliably detects pedestrians and cyclists by autonomous vehicles and reliably distinguishes them from each other and also from other objects or obstacles.