Systematic approach to investigate and counteract interference-effects in automotive radars

Considering the fast growing market for automobile radars, a comprehensive investigation of interference between these radars is an essential step towards very high radar penetration rates with a maximum of system-to-system isolation. The MOSARIM project, funded by the European Commission, addresses this topic. The paper presented here introduces a multisystem radar simulator with focus on interference investigation and mitigation, including a scenario editing tool, a wave propagation simulator as well as the organization and post processing in Matlab. The simulation approach is demonstrated on the basis of a simple dynamic traffic scenario. Simulations and references underline the validity of the introduced approach.