ADAS test solution combines hardware, software expertise

Konrad says this test solution provides significantly more robust and capable test architecture that simplifies and shortens radar sensor development time, production test and functional verification in a HIL test. The Konrad Target Simulation software for radar sensors is designed for short and long-range radar sensors and leverages the NI VRTS. The NI VRTS consists of mmWave front-end technology, a Vector Signal Transceiver (VST) and NI-5692 Variable Delay Generator (VDG).

The system is designed to test 24GHz/76-81 GHz radar band with 1GHz of real-time bandwidth. The Konrad ARTS is a customisable and configurable radar test system. Users can validate backend sensor algorithms and increase the realism of radar test by confronting the sensor with multiple versions of real-world scenarios.

The system can be deployed for RF measurement-based and object simulation test methodologies to meet exact production, validation or HIL test specification needs.

It empowers production and validation test engineers by combining radar test measurements and custom object scenarios, including NCAP scenarios, for radar sensor functional verification, in one system. 

Active safety systems require millions of test-drive kilometres to meet all industry standards.

Acquiring road data is extremely expensive, increasingly time-consuming and offers no guarantee that all test driving scenarios are covered.

Users can now test critical safety systems in the lab with this ADAS test solution. 

Based on this collaborative software and hardware test system, ADAS technologies and control systems can be tested in a SIL (Software-in-the-Loop), HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) or DIL (Driver-in-the-Loop) fashion.

Testing can be conducted in real-time and supports a broad range of different applications. These tests provide a high degree of consistency across the various stages of development.