My name is Olof Eriksson. I am 63 years old, married and we have a grown-up son. I live in a flat in down-town Stockholm, Sweden. I have a master’s degree from the technical university of Lund. My professional experience has always been in electromagnetic sensing in different areas, both military and civilian. Out of work I like to ride my bike and music, especially classical, is important to me.

What is your title and/or role in the project?

I am a Research Specialist at Veoneer Research. In this project I am the technical expert in radar for automotive applications. The automotive use cases and requirements are in many cases very different compared to “normal” radar applications. My job is to map these requirements to technical radar performance parameters. I also need to consider the need for a solution that will fit into the structure of a car and that has a cost that is acceptable by the users.

What are your contributions to the project? (Specify what deliverables and/or tasks you are responsible for)

I am the technical lead for the work packages “Primary demonstrator: in-cabin car safety sensor for pre & post-crash passenger monitoring“ and “Automotive System integration, System implications, Advanced processing & Sensor fusion”.
The Veoneer team is responsible for the definition and requirements of the use cases. We will also define, specify and integrate the radar sensor into a real vehicle. This vehicle will be used as a test bed and for functional demos. We will collect data from multiple test scenarios and propose improved signal processing algorithms to enhance robustness.

What challenges can you foresee in the project?

We want to save lives. The use cases we are aiming for in this project are all safety related so it is of the highest importance that the system is very robust.
In all automotive radar applications, the environment, both with respect to the crowded traffic scenarios, the multiple reflecting objects, creating background clutter, and the varying environment, like temperature, rain etcetera, are issues that need to be handled in a way that will create user trust.

How do you think the project outcome could affect our daily life?

The radar sensor will have the ability to enhance vehicle safety both for in-cabin scenarios as well as for advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) applications. This will enable safer driving and reduce the number of fatalities and injured road users. It is also possible to use the sensor for multiple comfort systems in the car making driving more enjoyable. Creating trust in mobility is the main focus of Veoneer.

My name is Franz Dielacher I received my M.S and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Graz University of Technology, Austria. My doctoral research was directed towards the modelling, simulation and design of oversampled analog-to-digital converters.
From 1981 until 1999 I worked for Siemens Semiconductor Group in circuit development and system integration for wireline and wireless communications. Since 1099 I am with Infineon Technologies in various positions in circuits and systems for communications like DSL, high-speed transceivers, and wireless infrastructure. Currently, I am a Senior Principal Engineer and Chief Scientist in the RF-Power Group.
My international involvement includes ISSCC TPC member from 2001 to 2011, ISSCC wireline sub-committee chair, ESSCIURC TPC member and TPC chair, ESSCIRC steering board member, ESSCIRC technical program committee chair, IEEE SSCS AdCOM member, since 2013 I am an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer and member of technical program committees for EUMIC, COMCAS and VLSI-TSA. I am also a technical advisor board member of the “CHIPS center of excellence” at KU Leuven and of the “ECIT” research center of Queen’s University Belfast.

What is your title and/or role in the project?

As the Impact Leader, I am responsible for ensuring that the project’s impact objectives are met with respect to the selected application fields and supervises the overall technical content in this regard. Hence, the Impact Leader assists the Scientific Leader and will be the chairman of the OEM group activities and the SME-User Group. New leadership can only be appointed by the General Assembly if necessary.
As a Work Package Leader, I am leading and coordinating the efforts in Work Package 1. Moreover, he will support as IFAT-representative in manufacturing specifications of high-volume manufacturability of SiGe ICs providing key technology parameters and constrains with respect to volume production.

What are your contributions to the project? (Specify what deliverables and/or tasks you are responsible for)

As representative in Car2TERA, I am responsible for:

• In WP1 “Requirement analysis, specifications and roadmap development”:
  IFAT is leading and coordinating the efforts in . Moreover IFAT will support in manufacturing specifications of high-volume manufacturability of SiGe ICs providing key technology parameters and constrains with respect to volume production.
• In WP2 “Multi-purpose, broadband, SiGe 600-GHz fMAX) circuits for THz sensor & communication applications”:
  IFAT supplies the PDK and will be responsible for processing of SiGe BiCMOS integrated circuits and is also responsible for the following Deliverables.
• In WP4 “Interfaces and packaging of new technologies into electronic systems”:
  IFAT investigates the performance of eWLB packaging technology beyond 200 GHz. Provide appropriate models for parasitics. Develop and characterize microwave components.
• In WP6 “Secondary demonstrator: wide-band THz-over-plastic links for short range intra-base station interconnect”:
  IFAT supports the system integration activities by customizing IFAT’s advanced packaging eWLB solution to interface the SiGe MMICs with the system board.
• In WP7 “Automotive System integration, System implications, Advanced processing & Sensor fusion”:
  IFAT is monitoring the activities in WP and cooperate as WP1-Leader with the WP7 Task-Leaders to ensure the compliance of system integration selections to the results of the requirement analyses and system specifications provided by WP1.
• In WP8 “Communication, Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation”:
  IFAT is leading And promotes Car2TERA results through its industrial network, present it at all industrial events, conferences and workshops. IFAT is also in the leading position of the external User Group activities and patent investigations.
• In WP9 “Project, Risk, and Innovation Management”:
  IFAT is contributing/support in administrative tasks.

What challenges can you foresee in the project?

Major issues are related to the so called terahertz gap. Therefore a major challenge will be to push and to achieve appropriate and sufficient output power with good efficiency in the transmitters.

How do you think the project outcome could affect our daily life?

Further improved capabilities in telecommunications like massive broadband, massive machine-type and critical machine-type communications. In the sensing area terahertz frequencies and wide bandwidth will be the basis for significant improvements in terms of resolution of existing sensors like car radar and it will also enable new applications in spectroscopy, health monitoring and earth observation.

I hold a PhD in theoretical physics. As a PhD student and a post-doctoral fellow, I studied specifically atomic movement and growth in metals or on metal surfaces. Since I joined Ericsson Group in 1996, I have been working as a research engineer and pursuing MMICs design, RF module development and radio system build-up, from microwave to millimeter-wave in various technologies.

What is your title and/or role in the project?

I am a senior specialist in R&D at Ericsson Research. My role in Car2Tera is to drive the development of the Telecom demonstrator, i.e., short-range, high data-rate wired links using polymer microwave fibers (PMFs).

What are your contributions to the project? (Specify what deliverables and/or tasks you are responsible for)

Specifically,  I will contribute to the transition from the MMIC to the fiber, including concept development and HFSS design. Deliverables I am responsible for are: 1) specification of the Telecom demonstrator, 2) assembly of the demonstrator, and 3) verification of the demonstrator.

What challenges can you foresee in the project?

For the secondary demonstrator, the Telecom link, the required wide bandwidth (>40 GHz) will be challenging for MMIC designers. Developing a low-loss MMIC-PMF transition is not an easy task. Dispersion impact in the PMF will be a major limitation to the data-rate or link distance, and resolving the dispersion impact is not trivial at all.

How do you think the project outcome could affect our daily life?

The Telecom demonstrator is target at application in base stations for 5G networks and beyond. The impact of the project outcome on human and society can hardly over-estimated, as 5G and beyond wireless technologies will significantly change the life of more than 9 billion mobile subscribers who are going to enjoy the innovative new services the technology brings to us.

I’m professor in Microwave and Terahertz Microsystems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden.

What is your title and/or role in the project?

I’m Scientific Leader of the project, and responsible for all micromachining parts of the project, including the innovative micromachined beam steering antenna system of the novel sub-terahertz car radar sensor.

What are your contributions to the project? (Specify what deliverables and/or tasks you are responsible for)

My research team at KTH is responsible for D3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6,

What challenges can you foresee in the project?

The project is very ambitious, and many people with different background have to find a common language to solve the major challenges together.

How do you think the project outcome could affect our daily life?

All of us are sitting in cars too much time of our lives. This new type of car radar sensor is targeting car accidents, and also autonomous driving, to which all of us are looking forward.