Design of Digital Beamforming-based Automobile Collision Avoidance System

My paper got selected for WSEAS conference in Rhodes Island, Greece. Currently I am working on FPGA prototyping this design, on success of which this will probably be designed as an ASIC. Please read the abstract and download the paper in the link below, if interested. Your feedback is valued.

Abstract—This paper describes the design of an automobile
forward collision avoidance system based on digital beamforming
techniques. The advantages of using digital beamforming over
the existing system is stressed upon. In the proposed system,
an adaptive array of antennas is used in the receiver side to
form a pencil beam. The methodology of electronically controlling
the direction of the pencil beam is described. Various methods
of power spectrum estimation techniques are analyzed and
compared both theoretically and through simulation in order to
recommend the best approach for the proposed system. Linear
prediction-based tracking algorithms are compared and the most
accurate and efficient of them is identified. A DSP-based or
ASIC-based implementation of this system can perform the entire
collision avoidance functionality inside the host vehicle’s on board
computer.
Index Terms—Adaptive array, digital beamforming, power
spectrum estimation, linear prediction, Kalman filter

Link to the original paper: DBF-based-collision-avoidance