| Summary: | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) === Driving safety is a very important topic in vehicle development. One of the biggest
threat of driving safety is road departure. Many vehicle active safety technologies
have been developed to warn and mitigate road departure in recent years. In order to
evaluate the performance of road departure warning and mitigation technologies, the
standard testing environment need to be developed. The testing environment shall
be standardized to provide consistent and repeatable features in various locations
worldwide and in various seasons. The testing environment should also be safe to the
vehicle under test in case the safety features do not function well. Therefore, soft,
durable and reusable surrogates of roadside objects need to be used. Meanwhile, all
surrogates should have the same representative characteristics of real roadside objects
to di erent automotive sensors (e.g. radar, LIDAR and camera). This thesis describes
the study on identifying the radar characteristics of common roadside objects, metal
guardrail, grass, and concrete divider, and the development of the required radar
characteristics of surrogate objects. The whole process is divided into two steps. The
rst step is to nd the proper methods to measure the radar properties of those three
roadside objects. The measurement result of each roadside object will be used as
the requirement for making its surrogate. The second step is to create the material
for developing the surrogate of each roadside object. In the experimental results
demonstrate that all three surrogates satisfy their radar characteristics requirements.
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