SBIR Phase I: Single-Pulse Radio Frequency Software Suite to Improve Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Safety

SBIR 第一阶段：单脉冲射频软件套件可提高高级驾驶员辅助系统的安全性

• 批准号: 2304554
• 负责人: Allyson McKinney
• 金额: $ 27.41万
• 依托单位: SOLOPULSE CORP.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Single; Pulse; Radio

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is focused on developing software to enhance the performance of existing radar hardware on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Despite development of ADAS sensing technologies, there are, on average, 14,386 car accidents per day in the United States alone. The performance of these technologies still needs to be improved significantly to ensure the safety of drivers. This project will transform the performance of current ADAS systems, reducing the number of car crashes and fatalities that occur daily. The total addressable market size for ADAS radar is estimated to be $6.61 billion, and this is the fastest growing market among all ADAS sensors. The current radar technology improvements being introduced today are focused on hardware, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. These current technologies are addressing issues that deal with resolution, but they come with the negative effects of slower processing times, higher cost, and less efficiency. The successful development of the software solutions in this project will disrupt the ADAS industry as this innovation is physics-based and can unlock the true potential of radar performance.The intellectual merit of this project is focused on developing and deploying a software suite for remote sensing and data transmission using existing hardware. The software suite involves three primary steps: locating objects, identifying objects, and communicating the findings to other vehicles and/or infrastructure in the surrounding environment. The first two steps fall underneath the remote sensing category. The third falls under the communications category. Simulation development will be done for all three steps. Once robust simulations have been developed, the remote sensing portion of the software suite will be tested on an industry standard radar unit. The anticipated outcome of the test deployment is that the remote sensing piece of the software suite will enable conventional ADAS radars to achieve higher resolution and lower latency. This deployment is the first step in hardware development to create a safer and complete ADAS software suite. The results will be used to assess the reliability and feasibility of the proposed software suite in a real-world environment. Additionally, the results will be used to evaluate the efficacy of the software suite by benchmarking performance against current ADAS radar performance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响侧重于开发软件，以增强高级驾驶辅助系统 (ADAS) 上现有雷达硬件的性能。尽管 ADAS 传感技术不断发展，但仅在美国平均每天就有 14,386 起车祸。这些技术的性能仍需要大幅提高，以确保驾驶员的安全。该项目将改变当前 ADAS 系统的性能，减少每天发生的车祸和死亡人数。 ADAS雷达的潜在市场总规模估计为66.1亿美元，这是所有ADAS传感器中增长最快的市场。目前推出的雷达技术改进主要集中在硬件、机器学习和人工智能方面。当前的这些技术正在解决与分辨率有关的问题，但它们带来了处理时间较慢、成本较高和效率较低的负面影响。该项目中软件解决方案的成功开发将颠覆 ADAS 行业，因为这种创新是基于物理的，可以释放雷达性能的真正潜力。该项目的智力优势集中于开发和部署遥感软件套件使用现有硬件进行数据传输。该软件套件涉及三个主要步骤：定位物体、识别物体以及将发现结果传达给周围环境中的其他车辆和/或基础设施。前两个步骤属于遥感类别。第三个属于通信类别。所有三个步骤都将进行模拟开发。一旦开发出强大的模拟，软件套件的遥感部分将在行业标准雷达单元上进行测试。测试部署的预期结果是，该软件套件的遥感部分将使传统 ADAS 雷达实现更高的分辨率和更低的延迟。此次部署是硬件开发的第一步，旨在创建更安全、更完整的 ADAS 软件套件。结果将用于评估所提议的软件套件在现实环境中的可靠性和可行性。此外，结果将用于通过对当前 ADAS 雷达性能进行基准测试来评估软件套件的功效。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。