A system for radar tracking, preferably including one or more transmitter elements, receiver elements, and signal processors, and optionally including one or more velocity sensing modules. A method for radar tracking, preferably including transmitting probe signals, receiving reflected probe signals, and/or tracking environmental targets, and optionally including decoding the set of received probe signals. The method is preferably implemented using a radar system, but can additionally or alternatively be implemented using any other suitable wave-based detection system.

A beat frequency signal processing method includes determining a two-dimensional (2D) time frequency spectrogram of a beat frequency signal based on a sampled sequence of the beat frequency signal, where the 2D time frequency spectrogram indicates a relationship between a frequency and a time of the beat frequency signal; performing matching between the 2D time frequency spectrogram of the beat frequency signal and a plurality of theoretical 2D time frequency spectrograms to determine, as a target 2D time frequency spectrogram, a theoretical 2D time frequency spectrogram whose matching degree is greater than or equal to a preset threshold. The plurality of theoretical 2D time frequency spectrograms are 2D time frequency spectrograms of the beat frequency signal, under combinations of a plurality of flight times and a plurality of Doppler frequency offsets, that are calculated based on a frequency sweep curve of the frequency modulated signal.

An FMCW radar transmission and reception apparatus radiates, via a transmission antenna, a beat frequency signal of a frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) and then receives, via a reception antenna, a reflected signal obtained from the radiated frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) signal that is reflected by a target and returns, wherein the frequency of a beat signal of a frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) radar can be effectively adjusted by configuring a plurality of phase locked loops (PLLs) used in a transmitter and a receiver, and using the same reference oscillation signal for the plurality of PLLs.

A radar apparatus includes a transmitting analog front-end circuit, a plurality of antenna ports, a switching controller, a switching circuit, and a receiving analog front-end circuit. The transmitting analog front-end circuit generates a transmitting signal according to a carrier wave signal. A frequency of the carrier wave signal changes with time during a frequency sweep period of the carrier wave signal. The antenna ports are respectively configured to receive an echo signal corresponding to the transmitting signal. The switching controller is coupled to the transmitting analog front-end circuit and configured to generate a control signal according to the frequency sweep period of the carrier wave signal. The switching circuit is coupled to the antenna ports and the switching controller, configured to select one of the antenna ports to receive the echo signal according to the control signal, and coupled to the receiving analog front-end circuit.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage device stores machine instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine a chirp period Tc for radar chirps in a radar frame. The chirp period Tc comprises a rising period Trise and a falling period Tfall. The processor determines, for each radar chirp in the radar frame, a corresponding randomized frequency characteristic during Tfall, and causes a radar sensor circuit to generate the radar chirps in the radar frame based on Tc, Trise, Tfall, and the corresponding randomized frequency characteristics. In some implementations, the machine instructions to determine the corresponding randomized frequency characteristic comprise machine instructions to determine a frequency step having a frequency f_step and a period Tstep. At least one of the frequency f_step and the period Tstep is dithered across radar chirps in the radar frame.

A level measuring instrument is provided, including a microwave integrated circuit in a form of a radar system on chip with at least two transmission hardware channels, each to generate a transmission signal, and at least two receiving hardware channels, each to receive reflected signals from a product surface; a noise level reduction device configured to increase a signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal, which relates to the reflected signals from the product surface, by averaging results of several measurements carried out in succession in time; or a signal level increasing device configured to combine, by an inverse Wilkinson divider, two of the transmission hardware channels to produce a combined transmission signal with increased power or to combine two of the receiving channels to produce a combined reception signal with increased power.

A radar system includes a transmitter including a power amplifier (PA) for amplifying a local oscillator (LO) signal, to generate an amplified signal. The radar system also includes a receiver including an IQ generator for generating an I signal based on the LO signal and for generating a Q signal based on the LO signal and a low noise amplifier (LNA) for amplifying a looped back signal, to generate a receiver signal. The receiver also includes a first mixer for mixing the receiver signal and the I signal, to generate a baseband I signal and a second mixer for mixing the receiver signal and the Q signal, to generate a baseband Q signal. Additionally, the radar system includes a waveguide loopback for guiding the amplified signal from the transmitter to the receiver as the looped back signal.

An example radar device includes an antenna system, a transmitter having an input, and an output coupled to an input of the antenna system, the transmitter having modulation circuitry to provide frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signals for transmission by the antenna system; a receive signal processing chain; and a digital front-end. The receive signal processing chain includes an input coupled to an output of the antenna system, and is configured to receive radar reflection signals, process the radar reflected signals to generate an intermediate frequency (IF) baseband signal, and digitize the IF baseband signal to generate digital samples of the IF baseband signal. The digital front-end has an input to receive the digital samples of the IF baseband signal and to phase-shift the digital samples in response to a calibration signal.

An electronic device includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, and a signal processor. The transmission antenna is configured to transmit a transmission wave. The reception antenna is configured to receive a reflection wave resulting from reflection of the transmission wave. The signal processor is configured to detect an object based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflection wave. The signal processor is configured to output information regarding a point group representing the position of an object determined to be a stationary object based on the velocity of the object and the velocity of the electronic device.

In implementations of systems for estimating three-dimensional trajectories of physical objects, a computing device implements a three-dimensional trajectory system to receive radar data describing millimeter wavelength radio waves directed within a physical environment using beamforming and reflected from physical objects in the physical environment. The three-dimensional trajectory system generates a cloud of three-dimensional points based on the radar, each of the three-dimensional points corresponds to a reflected millimeter wavelength radio wave within a sliding temporal window. The three-dimensional points are grouped into at least one group based on Euclidean distances between the three-dimensional points within the cloud. The three-dimensional trajectory system generates an indication of a three-dimensional trajectory of a physical object corresponding to the at least one group using a Kalman filter to track a position and a velocity a centroid of the at least one group in three-dimensions.