Patent classifications
G01S13/5246
RADAR APPARATUS AND TARGET DETERMINATION METHOD
Radar receiver calculates a first reception power in each of a predetermined number of beam directions by using a reflected wave signal in a first cell among a plurality of cells into which a region represented by at least one of a distance component and a Doppler frequency component is divided, calculates a second reception power on the basis of reception powers of reception array antennae by using the reflected wave signal in a peripheral cell of the first cell among the plurality of cells, and determines whether or not a target is present in the first cell on the basis of a comparison result between the first reception power and a first threshold value that is a value obtained by multiplying the second reception power by a first coefficient.
METHOD FOR FILTERING THE GROUND AND/OR SEA CLUTTER ECHOES INTERCEPTED BY AN AIRBORNE RADAR, AND RADAR IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD
The echoes being picked up in the distance-speed domain, the method being wherein it includes a step of producing a mask, in the distance-speed plane, overlying the zone of detection of the ground and/or sea clutter echoes picked up by the sidelobes, the zone being determinable by the antenna parameters of the radar, the waveform emitted by the radar and the environmental context of the radar, all the points of the distance-speed plane which are covered by the mask being assigned a characteristic which is specific to the mask; a step of filtering the received echoes, in which the echoes covered by the mask are rejected from the radar reception processing.
CFAR OS detection hardware with two sets of comparators
A system includes a shift register to store data samples, where the shift register includes a cell under test (CUT), a left guard cell, a right guard cell, a left window, and a right window. The system includes two sets of comparators to compare incoming data samples with data samples in the left window and the right window to compute ranks of the incoming data samples. The system includes a sorted index array to store a rank of the data samples in the shift register. The system includes a selector to select a Kth smallest index from the sorted index array and its corresponding data sample from the shift register. The system includes a target comparator, where the first comparator input receives a data sample from the CUT and the second comparator input receives a Kth smallest data sample, and the comparator output indicates a CFAR target detection.
Systems, devices, and methods for real-time interference detection
Signal processing circuitry includes at least one processor configured to obtain a digitized radar signal, and further configured, for one or more iterations, to: determine a first power of at least one first signal sample of the radar signal; determine a second power of at least one second signal sample of the radar signal, the at least one second signal sample being subsequent in time to the at least one first signal sample; and determine a difference value between the second power and the first power. The at least one processor further configured to detecting a burst interference signal occurring within the radar signal based on the one or more difference values from the one or more iterations.
Electronic device, an electronic reference device, and related method for positioning of the electronic device
An electronic device includes memory circuitry, interface circuitry, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to transmit, to a plurality of electronic reference devices, a first signal, the first signal having a pulse width below a threshold. The processor circuitry is configured to determine, based on the received second signals and at least one predetermined time period, a time of flight of each of the second signals. The processor circuitry is configured to obtain, from the memory circuitry, reference positions of the plurality of electronic reference devices. The processor circuitry is configured to determine, based on the associations, one or more candidate positions of the electronic device. The processor circuitry is configured to determine, based on the distances, the one or more candidate positions, and the obtained reference positions, a position of the electronic device.
Method for determining at least one object information item of at least one target object which is sensed with a radar system, in particular of a vehicle, radar system and driver assistance system
A method for determining at least one object information item of at least one target object (18) which is sensed with a radar system (12) of a vehicle (10), a radar system (12) and a driver assistance system (12) are described. Transmission signals (32a, 32b, 32c) are transmitted into a monitoring range (14) of the radar system (12) with three transmitters (Tx1, Tx2, Tx3). Echoes, which are reflected at the at least one target object (18), of the transmission signals (32a, 32b, 32c) are received as received signals (34a, 34b, 32c) with at least two receivers (RxA, RxB, RxC, RxD). The received signals (34a, 34b, 34c) are subjected to at least one multi-dimensional discrete Fourier transformation. At least one target signal is determined from the result of the Fourier transformation. An object information item is determined from the target signal.
High range resolution radar profiling using frequency jump burst-pulse doppler waveform and processing
The concepts, systems and methods described herein are directed towards frequency jump burst-pulse-Doppler (FJB-PD) waveforms and processing to provide wideband, high range resolution (HRR) radar profiling capability in a clutter dense environment. The method includes transmitting a FJB-PD waveform comprising a plurality of frequency steps over a predetermined time period with each frequency step having a plurality of pulses. The method further includes receiving one or more FJB-PD pulse returns corresponding to the FJB-PD waveform and identifying one or more target detections in the one or more FJB-PD pulse returns. A set of range swaths may be extracted for each of the one or more target detections and a wideband spectrum may be generated for each of the sets of range swaths using FJB coherent integration. A clutter suppressed HRR profile may be generated for each of the target detections based on the respective wideband spectrum.
PROCESSING RADAR SIGNALS
A method for processing a radar signal is provided. The method may include receiving chirps of a radar signal, sampling the radar signal, dividing the samples that correspond to the chirp of the radar signal into at least two virtual chirps, and processing the radar signal based on the at least two virtual chirps. Also, a corresponding device is provided.
Wind turbine mitigation in radar systems
Disclosed is an ATC Radar and a method of operating an ATC Radar, including the steps of: receiving In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) signals; creating first and second complex clutter maps using the I and Q signals; wherein the first map comprises data which is dynamically updated on a per-scan basis and the second map comprises data indicative of a static environment with no targets; subtracting data from the second map from the received I and Q signals to mitigate the effects of static objects in the environment, to yield compensated I and Q data; and using the compensated I and Q data for target detection and/or tracking.
MARINE TARGET DETECTION IN CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS
Method of slowly moving target detection with application for coastal surveillance radars. This method improves the well know other methods and efficiently detects targets with a high accuracy. The proposed method consists of three steps that are: step of generation and processing of signals with complex modulation; step of target clustering and step of detection of slowly moving targets in clutter environments.