Rohde & Schwarz announces partnership with fiveD

Rohde & Schwarz has announced its partnership with fiveD in the hopes that this will help the company expand its market leadership in the field of contactless security checks.

Radar Simulation Suite

Radar is the basic sensor technology for many autonomous systems. An example of this is the radar used in assisted driving for speed and distance measurements.

Radar sensors emit electromagnetic waves that reflect off objects in the environment.

By using the reflections, the radar provides a detailed understanding of the surrounding area.

The radar allows the vehicle to recognise where objects are located and how fast they are moving.

The process of transforming this concept from the real world to the virtual world means there has to be a consideration of the entire chain of effects and ensure that they are physically correct.

This includes radar, waves, environment, signal processing and potential influencing factors such as phase noise and calibration errors.

And that is the goal that fiveD is pursuing. Its Radar Simulation Suite, a pioneering software tool that will soon enter the market, realistically simulates radars.

The future of the Radar Simulation Suite

“Until now, there has been a gap between reality and virtual worlds in radar simulations. By closing this gap, we can now obtain virtual data with an unprecedented level of quality,” said Hägele.

This data will further improve the development of Rohde & Schwarz security scanners.

The scanners use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect potentially dangerous objects and are used at airports and critical infrastructure around the world as they ensure fast and contactless security checks.

The bigger the data set used to train the AI, the better its performance will be.

The database has been created with real test subjects, who walked through the security scanner.

The data set is expected to be expanded in the future by using a wide variety of virtual people to enable a rapid response to dynamically changing security requirements.

The fifth dimension for radar data by fiveD

Neural networks require labels during the initial training process, in which they learn to categorize information correctly. This widespread manual process is time-consuming and error-prone.

The Radar Simulation Suite will eliminate the need for manual labelling of individual data points.

The fiveD software suite labels the data automatically in a quicker, more accurate and error free.

This type of labeling allows fiveD to add a fifth dimension to radar data, which is otherwise 4D due to its 3D spatial image and speed information.

fiveD stands for the new fifth dimension in the radar world.

Aside from the Rohde & Schwarz security scanners, there will be many other areas of application for this 5D radar data in the future.

This type of technology is already in high demand in the automotive and industrial sectors, as it has enabled the necessary jump in development that those companies have been seeking.

“Found the perfect match in fiveD”

Andreas Hägele, Vice President Microwave Imaging, Rohde & Schwarz explained: “The founding of fiveD and our participation were the next logical steps.

“Rohde & Schwarz is a highly innovative company that has found the perfect match in fiveD. This strategic partnership will further expand our market-leading position in the field of security scanners.”

Marcel Hoffmann, Managing Director, fiveD said: “This joint venture combines the flexibility of a startup with the clout of a corporate group.

“We are particularly pleased that Rohde & Schwarz thinks long-term.”

He added: “Rohde & Schwarz is also clearly a technology-driven company that is aware of the importance and enormous potential of hyper-realistic radar simulations.”

This will be spotlighted at this year’s European Microwave Week (EuMW) in Paris, for the radio frequency and microwave trade show.

Rohde & Schwarz will be exhibiting from 24-26 September, with fiveD also making its debut at the Rohde & Schwarz booth.