Multi-Radar Fusion for Failure-tolerant Vulnerable Road Users Classification
 
Multi-Radar Fusion for Failure-tolerant Vulnerable Road Users Classification 
 
Maxim Rykunov, Eddy De Greef, Habib Khalid, Kheireddine Aziz, Andre Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli
 
Abstract 

Data fusion is one of the key aspects in robust and failure-tolerant vulnerable road user (VRU) perception systems. This paper presents a multi-radar sensor fusion platform that enables automatic detection, tracking and classification of pedestrians and cyclists while aiming to support fail-safe system operation. The sensor fusion platform encapsulates two main modules working concurrently: the first detection-to-detection fusion module performs a spatio-temporal alignment of radar detections, data association of the aligned detections and finally multi-object tracking; the second module is the sensor failure management block, which is responsible for fault-tolerant system operation and encapsulates multilevel verification subsystem. The proposed multi - radar fusion system is experimentally evaluated through multi-target scenarios. Demonstrated results show effectiveness of the proposed platform and failure-tolerance of the system compared to a single sensor solution.