Automotive radar interference study for different radar waveform types

Mutual interference between different radar waveforms used in automotive radar applications is studied. The existing interference analysis is extended to a generalised radar-to-radar interference equation that covers most of the common interference scenarios for automotive radar systems. The outcome of the generalised equation is demonstrated...

System Level Synchronization of Phase-Coded FMCW Automotive Radars for RadCom

This paper describes an FMCW based radar and communication (RadCom) system and addresses the challenges in the synchronization of multiple units for communication functionality. We proposed a novel technique to detect the FMCW RadCom signal at the communication receiver and derive the detection and false alarm probabilities of it. Moreover,...

Doppler Influence on Waveform Orthogonality in 79GHz MIMO Phase-Coded Automotive Radar

Utilization of phase-coded waveforms in automotive MIMO radars for short to medium range applications is studied. Performances of three most-promising binary code families (Gold, APAS and ZCZ sequences) are compared. Design tradeoffs of practical implementation of phased-coded waveforms for MIMO radar are analyzed for the first time for a...

Accurate Target Localization for Automotive Radar

Automotive radars suffer from low angular estimation accuracy due to the limited number of antennas and insufficient onboard processing power. This paper addresses the single target tracking problem in automotive radar by using recently proposed MIMO-monopulse approach which blends the monopulse approach with the collocated MIMO radar. We...

PRF Sampling Strategies for SwarmSAR Systems

The work investigates staggered and random PRF (Pulse Repetition Frequency) strategies for a close formation of small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites operating in a multistatic configuration. The satellites are positioned within a fraction of the along-track critical baseline, hence allowing for the application of Displaced Phase...

Uncorrelated Interference in 79 GHz FMCW and PMCW Automotive Radar

An extensive comparison on radar-to-radar interference in frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) and binary phase-modulated continuous wave (PMCW) radars is performed. The noise-plus-interference power for FMCW-to-FMCW and PMCW-to-PMCW interference in a single victim and single interferer environment is compared for generalized waveform...

Reconfigurable Range-Doppler Processing and Range Resolution Improvement for FMCW Radar

A reconfigurable range-Doppler processing method for FMCW radar is presented. By concatenating beat-frequency signals from more than one sweep, a continuous beat-frequency signal for the whole coherent processing interval (CPI) can be created. As a result, continuous targets' observation time is extended beyond that of a single chirp duration...

MIMO-Monopulse Target Localization for Automotive Radar

In this study, the authors propose a novel direction of arrival (DoA) estimation algorithm called ‘multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO)–monopulse’ by combining the monopulse approach with MIMO radar. Monopulse is fast and accurate angle estimation algorithm, which has been well developed for tracking radar. The application of the monopulse...

Target Localization Using MIMO-Monopulse: Application on 79 GHz FMCW Automotive Radar

A novel target azimuth estimation algorithm called ”MIMO-Monopulse” is proposed by combining monopulse approach with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. Chebyshev and Zolotarev weighting are applied to synthesis sum and difference pattern of MIMO-monopulse. A new visualization method for monopulse ratio is discussed. Finally, the...