2WIDE_SENSE
The project aims at providing European automotive industry with the next generation of imaging
sensors beyond the current CMOS imagers. The core sensing technology is a cost-effective InGaAs
focal plane array with wide spectral response (VIS-NIR-SWIR) and wide dynamic range (120dB). The
benefits deriving from the additional SWIR bandwidth allow enhancing preventive safety functions
and car energy efficiency.
The specific objectives are:
- implementation of the paradigm of ‘application independent’ multifunctional camera;
- hybridisation of InGaAs detector on silicon read out circuits;
- deposition of low cost interferential bandpass optical filters at pixel level;
- design of AR coatings and plastic lenses;
- development of multi-spectral wide dynamic range camera engine;
- algorithm development for predictive road status monitoring;
- sensor validation adapting existing ADAS software platforms (LDW, NV, HBA, TSR, VRU);
- synergies and complementary actions with on-going and new projects in FP7 on road safety.
The innovations claimed are:
- wide dynamic range and wide spectral response InGaAs focal plane array;
- collective process for hybridisation, including the substrate removal step, of InGaAs arrays on
- silicon read-out circuit;
- use of wide spectral band cameras in safety applications;
- cost-effective large spectrum plastic lenses;
- reliable predictive road status monitoring for preventive and active safety systems.
