From Sensing to Understanding with Smart Radars – Technology Innovations and Applications
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Topic of the workshop
In this workshop, that is co-organised by imec and Flanders Make, we will explain and demonstrate the potential of today's smart radars for advanced RF sensing applications.
Due to the shift to higher frequencies (60 GHz and up) and the integration of multiple antennas, current radars offer a high-resolution for range, angular position and speed.
Powerful AI algorithms enable unprecedented capabilities for detection and classification of (human) movement and behavior, and for vital sign monitoring. Moreover, radar sensors do this in a non-contact and privacy preserving fashion.
Experts from academia will present the state-of-the-art in radar sensing technology and discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Speakers from industry will zoom in on the possibilities and challenges that these innovative radars offer for their applications, such as industrial automation, automotive, healthcare, etc.
Several innovative technologies and solutions will be presented during a guided demo tour.
We will end the workshop with a plenary Q&A session.
Participation is open to all technology enthusiasts who want to understand the technology behind radar sensing and its potential applications.
Programme
PROGRAMME
13h00 | Introduction Kris Hermus, Coordinator Wireless Community & Innovation Program Manager Flanders, imec Wouter Lammens, Business Development Manager, Flanders Make Kris Van de Voorde, Business Program Manager, imec |
13h10 | Past, present and future of technologies for smart radar sensing Ilja Ocket, Program Manager RF Sensing, imec |
Radar-based hand gesture recognition using spiking neural networks Inton Tsang, Senior Research Scientist, imec-IDLab-UAntwerp |
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Joint communication and radar sensing Sofie Pollin, Professor, KU Leuven and Principal Scientist, imec We introduce the topic of joint communication and radar sensing. Then, we show how an in-band full duplex communication radio can easily be extended with radar signal processing, almost for free. After a short video of the system, we conclude with future work and challenges. |
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Radar sensing solutions for industrial applications Johan DeCoster, Product Manager Identification & Measuring, SICK Belgium |
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Promising use cases of radar in railway and healthcare Steven Lauwereins, Research lead, Televic Rail |
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On the Performance of Radar vs LIDAR vs Vision in Challenging Environments Niels Van Damme, Co-Founder & Tech Lead, OTIV |
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GUIDED DEMO TOUR | |
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Challenges and opportunities of radar sensing in manufacturing Patricia Leconte, Technical domain lead – Smart Robotic Systems, Flanders Make The future of manufacturing revolves around smarter productions agents, able to fail better and recover better. This requires an |
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Monitoring passenger flows in train and metro Pascal Marly, Project Manager, Siemens |
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Detection and localization challenges in the orchestration of automation agents Jurgen Dekeyser, Owner, Flagstone Flagstone will discuss the current state of practice around orchestration and deployment of mobile robots, tools and vehicles, |
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Radar: from the living room to the factory floor Eva Maria Buchkremer, Head of Product Management, InnoSenT As product manager for radar products at InnoSenT, Eva Maria will guide us through the various applications of radar. |
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Plenary Q&A session | |
16h30 | Networking reception |
17h00 | End of the workshop |