Vanessa Palmier

With a background in physics and engineering sciences, Vanessa has acquired a wealth of professional experience in telecommunications techniques, research and innovation in optical instrumentation and image processing, for a variety of fields including medical research and cosmetics. In 2018 she joined the automotive sector, working on the problem of modeling based on the physics of ADAS sensors (radar, etc). Since then, she has been working on these subjects within IRT SystemX, benefiting from an ecosystem rich in partnerships with well-known companies and laboratories in the field, such as AVSimulation, the Renault Group, IMT Atlantique, Oktal-SE and Valeo.

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Presentation

Radar ADAS: virtual modeling of targets

The safety of autonomous systems is one of the challenges addressed by the CVH project at IRT SystemX through simulation. One of its aims concerns perception, considering physically realistic simulation of sensors, from a hardware point of view on one hand, and modeling of the environment on the other hand. In the case of radars, the applied methodology comprises four main topics: building the virtual sensor, modeling virtual targets, describing simulation scenarios and characterizing the phenomenological model of perturbations. This paper discusses modeling virtual targets, in order to demonstrate the relevance of our methodology through quantified results.