Praveen of Texas Instruments

Abstract: 

The term “radar” has typically been associated with defense applications & recently Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). However, emerging 60 GHz & 77 GHz single chip radar sensors are finding increasing adoption in broad market applications ranging from industrial to personal electronics. These applications, including indoor people presence detection and counting; personal electronics; Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC); and Internet of Things (IoT), are highly sensitive to power and cost. Other challenges include high device & maintenance costs, remote installations, complexity of the technology itself and specific to certain applications only. 

This talk will cover some of the broad market sensing applications and ongoing work that addresses these challenges. Also, it will introduce a low cost, low power mmWave sensing concept: starting from simple, high accuracy ranging; scalable to a cognitive radar solution that implements low power human presence sensing using temporal Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm & 1D CNN (edge-AI). While the former fits well into various Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications, the latter enhances user experience and efficiency of systems such as intelligent control (turn on/off) for TVs, HVAC; directional control towards occupied regions in a room or indoor space; and more. Thus, making it a low power, battery operated and potentially autonomous solution. 

Biography:

Praveen Natarajan is a Technical Lead and Lead Radar Software Architect, driving the Radar Perception Software team at Texas Instruments’ (TI) Processors Business Unit. He has ~10 years of experience leading ADAS, In-cabin and broad market mmWave radar signal processing from silicon to perception stack. He delivered TI’s first imaging radar full stack software achieving standout gains in latency, power and resolution. He combines DSP and embedded cross-functional expertise, helping accelerate next-generation radar innovation. A recognized expert in the field – IEEE senior member, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) lead liaison, has setup a radar lab at VIT University, directly mentored 15+ students, 7+ industry-academia invited talks and several publications. Outside work, he enjoys interacting with students and giving back to the engineering community.

Email:

Address:Technical Lead, Radar Perception Software, Texas Instruments, , Bangalore, India