@article{MohanSteinbergerWaechteretal.2025, author = {Mohan, Nihesh and Steinberger, Fabian and W{\"a}chter, Sonja and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Additive Manufacturing for Automotive Radar Sensors Using Copper Inks and Pastes}, volume = {15}, pages = {2676}, journal = {Applied Sciences}, number = {5}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2076-3417}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052676}, year = {2025}, abstract = {Radar sensors are critical for obstacle detection and navigation, especially for automated driving. Using the use-case "printing of heating coils on the inside of the front housing (primary radome)" needed for de-icing in winter, it is demonstrated that additive manufacturing (AM) can provide economic and functional benefits for manufacturing of the sensors. AM will allow significant cost reduction by eliminating parts and simplifying the manufacturing process. Different AM technologies for the coils were investigated, first, by applying the conductive traces by fused deposition modeling (FDM), and, second, by printing copper particle-free inks and pastes. The metal layers were electrically and mechanically characterized using a profilometer to measure the trace dimension and a four-point probe to measure the resistance. It was revealed that low-cost conductive filaments with low resistivity and current carrying capacity are commercially still not available. The best option sourced was a copper-polyester-based filament with 6000 µΩcm after printing. Therefore, low-cost particle-free copper inks and commercial copper flake paste were selected to print the heating coil. The Cu particle-free inks were amine-based Cu (II) formate complexes, where the Cu exists in an ionic form. Using contactless printing processes such as ink-jet printing or pneumatic dispensing, the traces could be deposited onto the low-melting temperature (225 °C) polymeric radome structure. After printing, the material needed to be sintered to form the conductive copper traces. To avoid damaging the polymer radome during sintering, two different processes were investigated: low-temperature (<150 °C) sintering in an oven for 30 min or fast laser sintering. The sintered Cu layers achieved the following specific electric resistivities when slowly sintered in the oven: paste 4 µΩcm and ink 8.8 µΩcm. Using laser sintering, the ink achieved 3.2 µΩcm because the locally high temperature provides better sintering. Also, the adhesion was significantly increased to (5 B). Therefore, laser sintering is the preferred technology. In addition, it allows fast processing directly after printing. Commercial equipment is available where printing and laser sintering is integrated. The potential of low-cost copper material and the integration in additive manufacturing of electronic systems using radar sensors as an example are demonstrated in this paper.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{TavakolibastiMeszmerBoettgeretal.2021, author = {Tavakolibasti, M. and Meszmer, P. and B{\"o}ttger, Gunnar and Kettelgerdes, Marcel and Elger, Gordon and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Seshaditya, A. and Wunderle, Bernhard}, title = {Thermo-mechanical-optical coupling within a digital twin development for automotive LiDAR}, booktitle = {2021 22nd International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {978-1-6654-1373-2}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSimE52062.2021.9410831}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StreckSchmokSchneideretal.2021, author = {Streck, Egor and Schmok, Peter and Schneider, Klaus and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Safeguarding future autonomous traffic by infrastructure based on multi radar sensor systems}, booktitle = {FISITA World Congress 2021}, publisher = {FISITA}, address = {Bishops Stortford}, url = {https://www.fisita.com/library/f2021-acm-121}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ElgerBibergerMeieretal.2018, author = {Elger, Gordon and Biberger, M. and Meier, M. and Schweigart, Helmut and Schneider, Klaus and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin}, title = {Technische Sauberkeit von Radarbaugruppen}, booktitle = {Elektronische Baugruppen und Leiterplatten EBL 2018: Multifunktionale Aufbau- und Verbindungstechnik - Beherrschung der Vielfalt}, publisher = {DVS Media GmbH}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, isbn = {978-3-96144-026-9}, url = {https://www.dvs-media.eu/de/buecher/dvs-berichte/3644/elektronische-baugruppen-und-leiterplatten-ebl-2018}, pages = {339 -- 349}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{TavakolibastiMeszmerKettelgerdesetal.2022, author = {Tavakolibasti, M. and Meszmer, P. and Kettelgerdes, Marcel and B{\"o}ttger, Gunnar and Elger, Gordon and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Seshaditya, A. and Wunderle, Bernhard}, title = {Structural-thermal-optical-performance (STOP) analysis of a lens stack for realization of a digital twin of an automotive LiDAR}, booktitle = {2022 23rd International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-6654-5836-8}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSimE54907.2022.9758897}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{KettelgerdesSarmientoErdoganetal.2024, author = {Kettelgerdes, Marcel and Sarmiento, Nicolas and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Wunderle, Bernhard and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Precise Adverse Weather Characterization by Deep-Learning-Based Noise Processing in Automotive LiDAR Sensors}, volume = {16}, pages = {2407}, journal = {Remote Sensing}, number = {13}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2072-4292}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16132407}, year = {2024}, abstract = {With current advances in automated driving, optical sensors like cameras and LiDARs are playing an increasingly important role in modern driver assistance systems. However, these sensors face challenges from adverse weather effects like fog and precipitation, which significantly degrade the sensor performance due to scattering effects in its optical path. Consequently, major efforts are being made to understand, model, and mitigate these effects. In this work, the reverse research question is investigated, demonstrating that these measurement effects can be exploited to predict occurring weather conditions by using state-of-the-art deep learning mechanisms. In order to do so, a variety of models have been developed and trained on a recorded multiseason dataset and benchmarked with respect to performance, model size, and required computational resources, showing that especially modern vision transformers achieve remarkable results in distinguishing up to 15 precipitation classes with an accuracy of 84.41\% and predicting the corresponding precipitation rate with a mean absolute error of less than 0.47 mm/h, solely based on measurement noise. Therefore, this research may contribute to a cost-effective solution for characterizing precipitation with a commercial Flash LiDAR sensor, which can be implemented as a lightweight vehicle software feature to issue advanced driver warnings, adapt driving dynamics, or serve as a data quality measure for adaptive data preprocessing and fusion.}, language = {en} } @article{MohanAhuirTorresBhogarajuetal.2024, author = {Mohan, Nihesh and Ahuir-Torres, Juan Ignacio and Bhogaraju, Sri Krishna and Webler, Ralf and Kotadia, Hiren R. and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Decomposition mechanism and morphological evolution of in situ realized Cu nanoparticles in Cu complex inks}, volume = {48}, journal = {New Journal of Chemistry}, number = {15}, publisher = {RSC}, address = {London}, issn = {1369-9261}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NJ05185D}, pages = {6796 -- 6808}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BhogarajuMohanSteinbergeretal.2024, author = {Bhogaraju, Sri Krishna and Mohan, Nihesh and Steinberger, Fabian and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Hadrava, Philipp and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Novel Low Temperature and Low Pressure Sintering of ADAS Radar Sensor Antenna Stack}, booktitle = {2023 24th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference \& Exhibition (EMPC)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {978-0-9568086-9-1}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.23919/EMPC55870.2023.10418277}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @unpublished{KettelgerdesHillmannHirmeretal.2023, author = {Kettelgerdes, Marcel and Hillmann, Tjorven and Hirmer, Thomas and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Wunderle, Bernhard and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Accelerated Real-Life (ARL) Testing and Characterization of Automotive LiDAR Sensors to facilitate the Development and Validation of Enhanced Sensor Models}, publisher = {arXiv}, address = {Ithaca}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.04229}, year = {2023}, abstract = {In the realm of automated driving simulation and sensor modeling, the need for highly accurate sensor models is paramount for ensuring the reliability and safety of advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS). Hence, numerous works focus on the development of high-fidelity models of ADAS sensors, such as camera, Radar as well as modern LiDAR systems to simulate the sensor behavior in different driving scenarios, even under varying environmental conditions, considering for example adverse weather effects. However, aging effects of sensors, leading to suboptimal system performance, are mostly overlooked by current simulation techniques. This paper introduces a cutting-edge Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) test bench designed for the automated, accelerated aging and characterization of Automotive LiDAR sensors. The primary objective of this research is to address the aging effects of LiDAR sensors over the product life cycle, specifically focusing on aspects such as laser beam profile deterioration, output power reduction and intrinsic parameter drift, which are mostly neglected in current sensor models. By that, this proceeding research is intended to path the way, not only towards identifying and modeling respective degradation effects, but also to suggest quantitative model validation metrics.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KovalWaechterErdoganetal.2025, author = {Koval, Leonid and W{\"a}chter, Sonja and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Großmann, Daniel}, title = {Ontology-Driven Modeling and Integration of Production Processes in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems within the Gaia-X Ecosystem}, booktitle = {2025 11th International Conference on Computer Technology Applications (ICCTA 2025)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {979-8-3315-1265-1}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCTA65425.2025.11166225}, pages = {211 -- 216}, year = {2025}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KettelgerdesMezmerHaeussleretal.2023, author = {Kettelgerdes, Marcel and Mezmer, Peter and Haeussler, Michael J. and B{\"o}ttger, Gunnar and Tavakolibasti, Majid and Pandey, Amit and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Elger, Gordon and Schacht, Ralph and Wunderle, Bernhard}, title = {Realization, multi-field coupled simulation and characterization of a thermo-mechanically robust LiDAR front end on a copper coated glass substrate}, booktitle = {Proceedings: IEEE 73rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference, ECTC 2023}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {979-8-3503-3498-2}, issn = {2377-5726}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ECTC51909.2023.00131}, pages = {753 -- 760}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KettelgerdesPandeyUnruhetal.2024, author = {Kettelgerdes, Marcel and Pandey, Amit and Unruh, Denis and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Wunderle, Bernhard and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Automotive LiDAR Based Precipitation State Estimation Using Physics Informed Spatio-Temporal 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (PIST-CNN)}, booktitle = {2023 29th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {979-8-3503-2562-1}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP58386.2023.10413394}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{PandeyKuehnErdoganetal.2020, author = {Pandey, Amit and K{\"u}hn, Stephan and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Schneider, Klaus and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Finite Element Analysis: A Tool for Investigation of Sharpness Changes in Automotive Cameras}, booktitle = {2020 21st International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {978-1-7281-6049-8}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSimE48426.2020.9152716}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KuehnPandeyZippeliusetal.2020, author = {K{\"u}hn, Stephan and Pandey, Amit and Zippelius, Andreas and Schneider, Klaus and Erdogan, H{\"u}seyin and Elger, Gordon}, title = {Analysis of package design of optic modules for automotive cameras to realize reliable image sharpness}, booktitle = {2020 IEEE 8th Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference (ESTC)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {978-1-7281-6293-5}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ESTC48849.2020.9229786}, year = {2020}, language = {en} }