Bharanidhar Duraisamy is with Daimler’s R&D in Ulm right from his student years. He started his life with team sensor fusion as a research associate and continued on to write his doctoral work in the team. At present he is working in the area of Automotive Radar at Daimler's Radar team in Ulm, specializing in Radar signal processing, target tracking and information fusion for fully autonomous driving applications. His work and interests are in the area of automotive multi-target tracking, multi-level sensor fusion with active and passive environment perception sensors, state estimation, signal processing designed for automotive intelligent vehicular applications, classification-fusion of relevant objects and multi-sensor data association.

Pop in Your Job: I like working with problems involving combinations of solutions such as using closed form solutions to network derived parameters, which is very common in robotics area. Self-driving car is one such application that requires very hard safe and reliable.  Real-time implementation of such a complex system. This motivates me to do what I do every day.

Daimler AG is one of the world’s most successful automotive companies. With its divisions Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Daimler Buses and Daimler Financial Services, the Daimler Group is one of the biggest producers of premium cars and the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach. Daimler Financial Services provides financing, leasing, fleet management, insurance, financial investments, credit cards, and innovative mobility services. The company’s founders, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, made history with the invention of the automobile in the year 1886. As a pioneer of automotive engineering, Daimler continues to shape the future of mobility today: The Group’s focus is on innovative and green technologies as well as on safe and superior automobiles that appeal to and fascinate. Daimler consequently invests in the development of alternative drive trains with the long-term goal of emission-free driving: from hybrid vehicles to electric vehicles powered by battery or fuel cell. Furthermore, the company follows a consistent path towards accident-free driving and intelligent connectivity all the way to autonomous driving. This is just one example of how Daimler willingly accepts the challenge of meeting its responsibility towards society and the environment. The brand portfolio of Daimler comprises Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, Mercedes-Maybach, Mercedes me, smart, EQ, Freightliner, Western Star, BharatBenz, Fuso, Setra, Thomas Built Buses as well as Mercedes-Benz Bank, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Daimler Truck Financial, moovel, car2go and mytaxi.