Combined Hybrid mm-Waves and Optics Sensing with Smart Data Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles

Combination of cognitive mm-Wave MIMO Phased Array systems with Optical Sensing solutions is proposed toward new functionalities for environmental perceptions and ubiquitous interactions. The resulting paradigms will operate the unification of mm-Wave and optical sensing solutions for enabling emerging technologies relative to interactions of humans with smart devices and systems in randomly changing environments. Perspectives for Autonomous Vehicles with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) including Gesture-Recognition (GR) through ubiquitous interactions based on hybrid cognitive mm-Wave RFIC technologies and optical systems are drawn. Several hardware realizations of mm-Wave phased-arrays are built and co-assembled with optical systems for smart data fusion and real-time co-array signal processing for autonomously secure decision making process. Unified modeling and measurement platform is proposed with the concept of Multi-Physics (EM-Thermal-Mechanical) Numerial-Co-Simulation-Clone (NCSC), seen as the counter-part of the functional hardware, which enables 4D (space-time evolution) Virtual Prototyping (VP) of augmented reality.