A method for operating a radar sensor in which the radar sensor is provided with a signal generating device. The signal generating device generates an outgoing signal as a radar signal that is to be emitted. The radar sensor also includes a signal receiving device for receiving and processing received signals as reflected radar signals. The outgoing signal is generated within a predefinable frequency band. The received signals are monitored for the presence of an interference disruption. When an interference disruption has been detected, the frequency band for the generation of the outgoing signal is at least temporarily reduced in terms of the bandwidth.

An adaptive finite impulse response (FIR) filter for filtering an I/Q data stream having a sample period. The FIR filter comprises at least one sample-period tap delay configured to delay the I/Q data stream by an integer multiple of the sample period of the I/Q data stream, and at least one sub-sample-period tap delay configured to delay the I/Q data stream by a non-integer multiple of the sample period of the I/Q data stream. A set of adaptive weights is provided and configured to weight samples of the delayed I/Q data stream. An adder is responsive to the weighted samples and configured to combine the weighted samples of the delayed I/Q data streams to generate a filtered I/Q data stream.

An adaptive finite impulse response (FIR) filter for filtering an I/Q data stream having a sample period. The FIR filter comprises at least one sample-period tap delay configured to delay the I/Q data stream by an integer multiple of the sample period of the I/Q data stream, and at least one sub-sample-period tap delay configured to delay the I/Q data stream by a non-integer multiple of the sample period of the I/Q data stream. A set of adaptive weights is provided and configured to weight samples of the delayed I/Q data stream. An adder is responsive to the weighted samples and configured to combine the weighted samples of the delayed I/Q data streams to generate a filtered I/Q data stream.

A radar system and method for maintaining radar performance of radar system in jammed environment are provided. The radar system has a main antenna arrangement for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic waves. Main antenna arrangement includes at least one main antenna element and at least one main electronics module for transmitting and/or receiving signals to/from at least one main antenna element. The system has auxiliary antenna arrangement for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic waves, auxiliary antenna arrangement includes at least one auxiliary antenna element and at least one auxiliary electronics module for transmitting and/or receiving signals to/from the at least one auxiliary antenna element. System has a controller connected to main antenna arrangement and to auxiliary antenna arrangement. Controller is configured to transmit first radar waveform from main antenna element, and transmit second radar waveform from auxiliary antenna element.

A radar system and method for maintaining radar performance of radar system in jammed environment are provided. The radar system has a main antenna arrangement for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic waves. Main antenna arrangement includes at least one main antenna element and at least one main electronics module for transmitting and/or receiving signals to/from at least one main antenna element. The system has auxiliary antenna arrangement for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic waves, auxiliary antenna arrangement includes at least one auxiliary antenna element and at least one auxiliary electronics module for transmitting and/or receiving signals to/from the at least one auxiliary antenna element. System has a controller connected to main antenna arrangement and to auxiliary antenna arrangement. Controller is configured to transmit first radar waveform from main antenna element, and transmit second radar waveform from auxiliary antenna element.

A feature detection system, the system comprising: at least one processor in operative communication with a signal source, said processor further comprising at least one non-transitory storage medium, wherein at least one non-transitory storage medium contains instructions configured to cause the processor to: apply a joint group sparse denoising and delay estimation approach to a signal received from said signal source; and output statistics regarding the signal, wherein the joint group sparse denoising and delay estimation approach comprises; using the following equation:

[00001]$\left\{x^{*},{\tau }^{*}\right\}=\underset{x,\tau }{\mathrm{argmin}}\left\{\frac{1}{2}\underset{j=1}{\overset{M}{.Math.}}{.Math.y_j-x.Math.}_2^2+\underset{i=0}{\overset{N}{.Math.}}{\lambda }_i{\phi }_i\left(D_i^{l_i}x\right)\right\}$

where: ϕ.sub.i are regularization functions; ∥y−x∥.sub.2.sup.2 is a data-fidelity term and, in embodiments, is chosen as the least-square term; l.sub.i are real numbers; D.sub.i are operators, which may be linear filters that can be written in matrix form; λ.sub.i are regularization parameters; and x*,τ* represent estimates of at least one transmitted pulse and associated delay, and solving the equation for multiple values of ϵ; choosing a vector, x, such that a cost function comprising the data fidelity term and regularization function is minimized; determining the ϵ that corresponds to the x that minimizes the cost function; and calculating the pulse width of the received signal, which corresponds to the desired estimate of the vector, x.

A feature detection system, the system comprising: at least one processor in operative communication with a signal source, said processor further comprising at least one non-transitory storage medium, wherein at least one non-transitory storage medium contains instructions configured to cause the processor to: apply a joint group sparse denoising and delay estimation approach to a signal received from said signal source; and output statistics regarding the signal, wherein the joint group sparse denoising and delay estimation approach comprises; using the following equation:

[00001]$\left\{x^{*},{\tau }^{*}\right\}=\underset{x,\tau }{\mathrm{argmin}}\left\{\frac{1}{2}\underset{j=1}{\overset{M}{.Math.}}{.Math.y_j-x.Math.}_2^2+\underset{i=0}{\overset{N}{.Math.}}{\lambda }_i{\phi }_i\left(D_i^{l_i}x\right)\right\}$

where: ϕ.sub.i are regularization functions; ∥y−x∥.sub.2.sup.2 is a data-fidelity term and, in embodiments, is chosen as the least-square term; l.sub.i are real numbers; D.sub.i are operators, which may be linear filters that can be written in matrix form; λ.sub.i are regularization parameters; and x*,τ* represent estimates of at least one transmitted pulse and associated delay, and solving the equation for multiple values of ϵ; choosing a vector, x, such that a cost function comprising the data fidelity term and regularization function is minimized; determining the ϵ that corresponds to the x that minimizes the cost function; and calculating the pulse width of the received signal, which corresponds to the desired estimate of the vector, x.

A data processing device and method for detecting interference in a FMCW radar system are described. For each of a plurality of transmitted chirps of the radar system, a high pass filter is applied to a receiver signal of a receiver channel of a radar receiver during an acquisition time corresponding to a transmitted chirp to remove those parts of the receiver signal corresponding to a reflected chirp having a power at the radar receiver greater than the noise power of the radar receiver of the radar system. The receiver signal power is calculated from the high pass filtered receiver signal. The receiver signal power is compared with a threshold noise power based on an estimate of the thermal noise of the radar receiver to determine whether the receiver signal corresponds to an interfered received chirp including interference or a non-interfered received chirp not including interference.

A data processing device and method for detecting interference in a FMCW radar system are described. For each of a plurality of transmitted chirps of the radar system, a high pass filter is applied to a receiver signal of a receiver channel of a radar receiver during an acquisition time corresponding to a transmitted chirp to remove those parts of the receiver signal corresponding to a reflected chirp having a power at the radar receiver greater than the noise power of the radar receiver of the radar system. The receiver signal power is calculated from the high pass filtered receiver signal. The receiver signal power is compared with a threshold noise power based on an estimate of the thermal noise of the radar receiver to determine whether the receiver signal corresponds to an interfered received chirp including interference or a non-interfered received chirp not including interference.

A surrounding monitoring radar device includes a signal generation unit, a spectrum generation unit, a cycle setting unit, a learning unit, and an update unit. At an update timing, the update unit updates a determination reference to a learned value calculated by the learning unit. the learning unit is configured to: set the learning value to an initial value at a start timing of the learning period; compare the learned value with a value of a noise floor of the generated frequency spectrum during the learning period; and update the learned value to the value of the noise floor upon the value of the noise floor being smaller than the learned value.