Provided is a scooter radar detection system for a scooter, including: a control module for controlling operation of the scooter radar detection system; two detection radars flanking a license plate, facing the rear of the scooter, and being in signal connection with the control module; two flash alert units disposed at rear-view mirrors on two sides of the scooter, respectively, and being in signal connection with the control module; and a vibration alert module disposed below a seat and being in signal connection with the control module.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for converting a radar signal for further signal processing in a test bench with a radar target emulator as well as a test bench having such an apparatus. A divider assembly preferably comprises a divider device configured to reduce a frequency and a bandwidth of the radar signal by a first factor for the further signal processing. A multiplier assembly preferably comprises a multiplier device configured to increase a frequency and a bandwidth of the radar signal by the first factor subsequent the further signal processing.

Systems and methods of determining a risk distribution associated with a multiplicity of coverage zones covered by a multiplicity of sensors of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) are disclosed. The method includes for each coverage zone covered by at least one sensor of the ADV, obtaining MTBF data of the sensor(s) covering the coverage zone. The method further includes determining a mean time between failure (MTBF) of the coverage zone based on the MTBF data of the sensor(s). The method further includes computing a performance risk associated with the coverage zone based on the determined MTBF of the coverage zone. The method further includes determining a risk distribution based on the computed performance risks associated with the multiplicity of coverage zones.

A beat frequency signal processing method includes determining a two-dimensional (2D) time frequency spectrogram of a beat frequency signal based on a sampled sequence of the beat frequency signal, where the 2D time frequency spectrogram indicates a relationship between a frequency and a time of the beat frequency signal; performing matching between the 2D time frequency spectrogram of the beat frequency signal and a plurality of theoretical 2D time frequency spectrograms to determine, as a target 2D time frequency spectrogram, a theoretical 2D time frequency spectrogram whose matching degree is greater than or equal to a preset threshold. The plurality of theoretical 2D time frequency spectrograms are 2D time frequency spectrograms of the beat frequency signal, under combinations of a plurality of flight times and a plurality of Doppler frequency offsets, that are calculated based on a frequency sweep curve of the frequency modulated signal.

Systems and methods of adjusting zone associated risks of a coverage zone covered by one or more sensors of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) operating in real-time are disclosed. As an example, the method includes defining a performance limit detection window associated with a first sensor based on a mean time between failure (MTBF) lower limit of the first sensor and a MTBF upper limit of the first sensor. The method further includes determining whether an operating time of the ADV operating in autonomous driving (AD) mode is within the performance limit detection window associated with the first sensor. The method further includes in response to determining that the operating time of the ADV operating in AD mode is within the performance limit detection window of the first sensor, adjusting a zone associated risk of the coverage zone to a performance risk of a second sensor.

Various embodiments wirelessly detect micro gestures using multiple antenna of a gesture sensor device. At times, the gesture sensor device transmits multiple outgoing radio frequency (RF) signals, each outgoing RF signal transmitted via a respective antenna of the gesture sensor device. The outgoing RF signals are configured to help capture information that can be used to identify micro-gestures performed by a hand. The gesture sensor device captures incoming RF signals generated by the outgoing RF signals reflecting off of the hand, and then analyzes the incoming RF signals to identify the micro-gesture.

The present disclosure provides a parameter calibration importing method for importing calibration parameter into an UWB module, the parameter calibration importing method includes determining the calibration parameter according to requirements of the UWB module, storing the calibration parameters, and writing the corresponding calibration parameters into an UWB chip according to the identity information. Wherein the calibration parameter is associated with identity information of the UWB module.

The vehicle odometry and motion direction system and method is described. The vehicle odometry and motion direction system and method determines if the first ground speed data is acceptable. Ground speed data is calculated for all targets within a radar's field of view and targets ground speed data is processed to determine second ground speed data. The vehicle odometry and motion direction system and method determines trusted ground speed data using first ground speed data and second ground speed data and adjusts the trusted ground speed data due to errors in radar Doppler speed data.

A method for calibrating a phased array including an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, comprising the steps: measuring with a probe a first antenna element pattern of a first antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements; performing a spherical near-field to far-field transformation of the first antenna element pattern; transforming the far-field first antenna element pattern to a plane-wave spectrum; back transforming the plane-wave far-field first antenna element pattern to a reference point within the near-field of the antenna array; normalizing the first antenna element pattern according to, at least, the value at the phase center of the plane-wave near-field first antenna element pattern; and calibrating the first antenna element based, at least in the part, on the normalized first antenna element pattern.

A method and system are provided for generating a trigger signal from a radar signal received over the air from a radar under test. The method includes detecting power of the radar signal received from the radar under test at a radio frequency (RF) power detector, the radar signal including multiple bursts of RF energy in a burst pattern; identifying repeating radar frames from the burst pattern using the detected power of the radar signal, each radar frame having at least one burst; and creating trigger signals corresponding to the radar frames, respectively, by synchronizing to the at least one burst in each radar frame.