Vehicle radar process

A process (100) of determining target parameters of an object within a field of detection of an automotive radar system, comprises the steps of (a) establishing a target range from a sequence of ranges (101); (b) dwelling on the target range for an initial dwell time to obtain sensor data (102); (c) determining if the sensor data corresponds to the presence of an object or to the absence of an object (103) at the target range based on probability density distributions of an object being present and being absent at the target range, and if such determination cannot be made, then repeating steps (b) - (c) until the determination can be made; (d) if the sensor data is determined to correspond to the presence of an object in step (c), then dwelling at the target range for an extended dwell time to obtain additional sensor data for determining the target parameters (104) of the object before proceeding to step (e); and (e) establishing the next of the sequence of ranges (105) as the target range before reiterating steps (b)-(e).