Magna to Bring Driver Assistance Into the Digital Age With Industry-First Capabilities in 2022
July 27 2021 - 11:30AM
When Magna International’s ICON Radar debuts on the Fisker Ocean
next year, it will mark the first application of digital radar for
driver-assisted technology.
The new digital radar enhances a vehicle’s ability to “see” its
surroundings and detect potential dangers, from a stalled car in a
dark tunnel to a pedestrian up to 150 meters away.
“ICON Digital Radar dramatically improves performance over
today’s analog radar, bringing it to levels which have not yet been
experienced in automotive applications,” said Boris Shulkin,
Executive Vice President, Technology and Investment at Magna
International. “Similar to other digital breakthroughs in the
consumer electronics and mobile phone industries, we expect digital
radar to transform the way we think about radar’s role in road
safety – today and in the future.”
Magna and Austin, Texas-based Uhnder partnered to develop the
technology, which continuously scans its full environment in four
dimensions, resulting in higher resolution and better contrast than
analog radar. As a result, ICON Radar has the power to sense moving
or standing objects, large or small, at both short and long
distances.
In addition, ICON Radar eliminates interference concerns
experienced by today’s analog radar. Each digital radar has a
quintillion unique codes embedded into the signal it transmits,
helping minimize the negative effects of mutual interference.
Effectively, no two radars in the world would have the same
code.
“We believe the time is right to make a paradigm shift toward
digital radar systems enabling our customers like Magna to have
more accurate information from their radar sensor so they can
develop sophisticated algorithms to help save more lives,” said
Manju Hegde, CEO and Co-founder of Uhnder.
ICON Radar helps address key industry challenges today and paves
the road toward higher levels of autonomy in the future. In
addition to vehicle and pedestrian detection, it can identify
low-lying objects and open pathways on crowded, multi-lane
roads.
Magna’s agreement to acquire Veoneer, announced last week, will
further strengthen the company’s radar portfolio. Veoneer brings
more than 10 years of program execution and experience producing
more than 40 million radar sensors. ICON Radar is one part of the
full portfolio of ADAS sensor solutions that Magna has to offer,
providing automakers a full-systems approach to bringing ADAS
technology to their vehicles.
TAGSADAS, ICON Radar, radar, Uhnder
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ABOUT MAGNA Magna is more than one of the world’s largest
suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology
company with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team of 158,000
employees and an organizational structure designed to innovate like
a startup. With 60+ years of expertise, and a systems approach to
design, engineering and manufacturing that touches nearly every
aspect of the vehicle, we are positioned to support advancing
mobility in a transforming industry. Our global network includes
347 manufacturing operations and 84 product development,
engineering and sales centres spanning 28 countries.
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