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A leading global automaker has selected Mobileye Imaging Radar™ as a crucial component for its forthcoming “eyes-off, hands-off” automated driving systems in consumer vehicles. This decision follows an extensive, multi-year evaluation of Mobileye’s technology against competing systems. The new customer, marking a first-time nomination for Mobileye, plans to integrate the imaging radar into vehicles slated for production starting in 2028. This technology is designed to enable SAE Level 3 automated driving at highway speeds, offering robust detection of vehicles, pedestrians, and objects even in challenging conditions like fog, rain, or at extended distances where existing sensors often struggle.
Key Highlights:
- A major global automaker has chosen Mobileye Imaging Radar™ for future production vehicles.
- The technology will be a key part of an eyes-off, hands-off automated driving system starting in 2028.
- It aims to deliver SAE Level 3 automation at highway speeds.
- Mobileye’s radar is designed for superior perception in adverse weather and lighting conditions.
- This represents a first-time nomination with this specific automaker for Mobileye.
Developed since 2018, Mobileye’s 4D imaging radar aims to provide essential sensor redundancy. It complements camera-based perception systems by offering superior performance in difficult lighting, environmental, and traffic scenarios, all while maintaining affordable costs. This capability is intended to facilitate safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions, ranging from robotaxis to consumer autonomous vehicles (AVs).
“The selection of our imaging radar by this new customer validates the groundbreaking work we undertook to develop our imaging radar,” stated Mobileye President and CEO Prof. Amnon Shashua. “After recognizing how important this sensing modality would be to autonomous driving, we built what we believe is the industry’s standard for imaging radar that can deliver the safety and accuracy self-driving systems require.”
Traditional automotive radars typically provide estimates of an object’s distance, its general horizontal direction, and relative velocity. However, Mobileye’s imaging radar adds a fourth dimension: height. This advancement is built upon a breakthrough architecture where the entire signal is processed digitally from end-to-end by a Mobileye-designed radar processor. This approach is engineered to achieve unprecedented levels of accuracy, detail, and reliability in perceiving the vehicle’s surroundings, reinforcing Mobileye’s leading position in autonomous driving technology.
At the heart of the Mobileye Imaging Radar are custom-designed radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). These advanced components enable exceptional flexibility in signal transmission and the ability to receive and sample the entire radar signal across a wide bandwidth, while maintaining low noise levels. This supports high-confidence object detection.
These RFICs are embedded within a unique architecture. The entire radar signal is sampled and digitally processed by a dedicated proprietary processor with an exceptionally powerful computing capability of 11 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS). This processor can manage over 1,500 virtual channels at a high frame rate of 20 frames per second. Furthermore, the system’s massive antenna array delivers outstanding angular resolution below 0.5 degrees, ultra-low side-lobe levels of -40 dBc, and a market-leading dynamic range of 100 dB, compared to 60 dB in other automotive radars.
This sophisticated design allows the Mobileye Imaging Radar to detect small, distant objects, even in complex scenarios with large nearby vehicles like trucks or buses. It also enables precise detection of minor hazards, such as a tire near a guardrail at a significant distance, which is critical for safe autonomous highway driving at speeds exceeding 75 mph (130 kph). The system is engineered to detect road users like pedestrians, motorcycles, and cyclists at distances up to 315 meters and identify potential hazards up to 230 meters away. Crucially, Mobileye Imaging Radar is designed to excel where traditional radar systems often falter, such as in tunnels, construction zones, and other complex, cluttered environments.
The forward-facing BSR version of the radar utilizes its full sensing capabilities, while a more compact BSRC version, intended for corner-mounted applications, features over 300 channels.
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