Innovations and Technology Trends for High-Performance Automotive Radars and Their Advanced Testing Capabilities
Tuesday 23rd September 2025
08:30 – 18:00
Room: Progress
Chair: Benjamin Nuss, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Co-Chairs: Martin Kunert, Radar Expert, Germany & Kostas Doris, NXP, The Netherlands & Thomas Zwick, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Applications like keyless entry or tire pressure monitoring systems, mobile communications and, more recently, automotive radar systems made microwave technologies a strong pillar inside the automotive world.
The first 77 GHz automotive radar sensors entered the European vehicle market in 1999. In 2019, the European Microwave Association (EuMA) for the first time organized the Automotive Forum to provide an open platform for industrial experts to discuss technical aspects, concepts and radar architectures as well as market issues in the area of microwaves in the automotive industry.
The forum consists of a good mix of technical talks and poster presentations, a keynote speech, a panel discussion, and plenty of time for networking. This year’s event will focus on the following topics:
- Enabling technologies and chip design
- AI and future market outlook
- Imaging radars
- Radar testing
The forum is mainly devoted to technical experts from automotive industry throughout the whole supply chain. Keynote speakers will present their views on special technical solutions as well as regulatory or strategic issues. Early registration is recommended.
Automotive Forum Networking Dinner
Tuesday 23rd September 2025 · 18:30 – 23:00
Location: Museum Speelklok, Steenweg 6, 3511 JP Utrecht
Cost: Free to Automotive Forum registered delegates (Please bring your badge to gain admission.)
Join us for this unique event, which includes a welcome reception and a seated dinner. You will have plenty of time to network and discuss Automotive Forum topics with other attendees in an open setting.
Session 1: Opening & Enabling Technologies
Chair: Benjamin Nuss, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
08:30 – 08:55
Facing Challenges: Advancing Radar for Next-Gen ADAS and Autonomous Driving
Maximilian Steiner, Mercedes-Benz, Germany
08:55 – 09:20
High Performance Interference Mitigation Edge DSP Solutions for Automotive Radars
Ryan Wu, NXP, USA
09:20 – 09:45
Enabling the Future of High-Channel Count Imaging Radars
Farzad Inanlou, GlobalFoundries, USA
09:45 – 10:10
A Comparative Case Study of In-Cabin Sensing: Child Presence Detection (CPD) with 60 GHz Radar and Emerging UWB Technologies
Yaohui Liu, Calterah, China
Session 2: AI & Future Market Outlook
Chair: Martin Kunert, Radar Expert
10:50 – 11:15
The Challenge of Large Scatterers: Ensuring Accurate Scene Reconstruction for L3/L4 Autonomous Driving Systems
Tim Campbell, Wayve, United Kingdom
11:15 – 11:40
Model-Based Learning for DOA Estimation and Radar Imaging in Autonomous Vehicles
Shunqiao Sun, The University of Alabama, USA
11:40 – 12:05
140 GHz Automotive Radar as the Enabler for New System Design Approaches
Christian Sturm, Valeo, Germany
12:05 – 12:30
Automotive Radar 2025–2030: Technology Trends and Market Outlook
Hassan Saleh, Yole, France
Session 3: Poster Presentations & Imaging Radar Progress
Chair: Kostas Doris, NXP
13:50 – 14:15
Poster Presentations
14:15 – 14:40
Resolving the Most Challenging Use Cases with Radar
Matan Nurick, Shlomit Hacohen, arbe, Israel
14:40 – 15:05
Imaging Radar Enables Eyes off on the Highway
Yaniv Avital, Ophir Shabtay, Ilia Yoffe, Ofer Markish, Mobileye, Israel
15:05 – 15:30
Digital Radar in Software-Defined Vehicles
Jungah Lee, Aura Intelligent Systems, USA
Session 4: Radar Testing
Chair: Thomas Zwick, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
16:10 – 16:35
How Hyper-Realistic Radar Simulation Can Revolutionize AI for Automotive Radars
Marcel Hoffmann, Christian Schüßler, Eva Dorschky, Tim Pfahler, Michael Stelzig, fiveD, Germany
16:35 – 17:00
Effectiveness Testing of ADAS in the PTI
Andreas Himmler, dSPACE, Germany | Peter Geigle, MAHA, Germany
17:00 – 17:25
Refined Ray Patterns and Propagation for Automotive Radar Applications
Nikola Caric, Basim Alabd, IPG, Germany
17:25 – 18:00
Panel Discussion
Poster Presentations:
- Efficiently Measuring 360° RCS Profiles for Accurate Automotive Radar Simulations
Resmi Johnson, Maximilian Schmid, Maximilian Steiner, Mercedes Benz, Germany - Calterah Lancang SoC for High Performance In-Cabin Radar Solution
Yaohui Liu, Calterah Semiconductor, China - Improving In-Cabin Safety: UWB Automotive-Radar Applications for Child Presence Detection
Sevda Abadpour, Qorvo, Germany - Optimized 77GHz Radar Solution via Waveguide Antenna-Welding Co-Design
Haoyu Wan, Pan-yoo ZH-R&D Office Hangzhou, China - Research Advances in Digital Radar Transceivers, RF-Chiplets, and Novel System Approaches
Tobias T. Braun, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany - Empowering ADAS: Flexible, Hardware-Agnostic Radar Software for Monostatic and Distributed Aperture Architectures
Jake Dehm, Srikant Vasudevan, Michael McKinney, Christopher F. Barnes, Allyson McKinney, Robert Jennings, SoloPulse, USA - Lens Integrated Radome for Modular Sensing Performance
Coen van de Ven, Gapwaves, Sweden - Contactless Air Integrated Waveguides in FR4 for 140 GHz Automotive Radar
Simona Bruni, Nataliia Lupyna, Andreas Bettray, Markus Krengel, Aline Friedrich, Lila Stavrou, Marta Arias, Oliver Litschke, IMST, Germany - Advantages of a Radar-Centric Approach for ADAS
Andreas vom Felde, ZENDAR, Germany | Holger Meinel, Automotive Radar Expert, Germany - Robotic-Assisted Radar Transmission Measurements of Painted Bumper Samples to Validate TLM Simulations
Mehdi Khlif, Florian Pfeiffer, perisens, Germany - Cooperative SDR Evaluation Platform for Digital Automotive Radar and ISAC
Lukas Witte, Andre Scheder, Tobias Kögel, Jonas Rottinghaus, Christian Karle, Benjamin Nuss, COMSENTRY, Germany - A Centralized Radar Architecture for Next-Generation Software Defined Vehicles
Andre Giere, Stefan Brisken, Cruise Munich, Germany - System Concept of an FMCW Radar for Railway Level Crossing Detection
Yeshaswini Palaksha, Sreejith Nair, Stefan Wickmann, Fraunhofer FHR, Germany | Anna Granich, RWTH Aachen University, Germany | Philipp Schneider, Marcell Gransch, Scheidt & Bachmann, Germany