Benjamin Nuss, A. Diewald, Jan Schoepfel, D. Martini, N. Pohl, T. Zwick
{"title":"76GHz OFDM Radar Demonstrator with Real-Time Processing for Automotive Applications","authors":"Benjamin Nuss, A. Diewald, Jan Schoepfel, D. Martini, N. Pohl, T. Zwick","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299057","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) has attracted lots of attention in research as a possible modulation scheme for future radars. Due to increasing hardware capabilities, the focus of OFDM development has been broadened even by automotive applications despite its challenging requirements on sampling rates and processing power. This paper presents a demonstrator dealing with these demands by using a baseband unit with broadband digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, a field-programmable gate array for real-time signal processing and monolithic microwave integrated circuits designed particularly for digital modulation schemes like OFDM. The setup can operate in the automotive radar band between 76 and 81GHz and provides two quadrature transmit and receive channels in a multiple-input multiple-output configuration.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"274 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132821850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Doan, E. Pistono, P. Coquet, Jianxiong Wang, D. Baillargeat, Joseph M. de Saxcé, S. Bila, F. Podevin
{"title":"Potentialities of Air-Filled Substrate Integrated Waveguides based on Carbon Nanotubes in E-band","authors":"P. Doan, E. Pistono, P. Coquet, Jianxiong Wang, D. Baillargeat, Joseph M. de Saxcé, S. Bila, F. Podevin","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a classic architecture of a 4 × 4 Butler matrix in an innovative air-filled waveguide technology based on carbon nanotubes for beam pointing or beam tracking activities for 5G applications. The working frequencies concern particularly the E-band (71-86 GHz). The model used to simulate the waveguides, couplers and crossovers needed for the Butler matrix is presented as well as the expected results in terms of S parameters. The expected insertion loss is extremely low thanks to the considered technology, 0.02 dB/mm in E-band, making the carbon nanotubes very attractive in this context. The transitions that allow connecting the waveguides to planar transmission lines have also been developed and are introduced in this paper. Their maximum insertion losses are 0.6 dB for a matching better than 17 dB over the entire E-band.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133730262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASGARDI: A Novel Frequency-based Automotive Radar Target Simulator","authors":"Fahimeh Rafieinia, K. Haghighi","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299008","url":null,"abstract":"Creating realistic, rich and dynamic environment for testing automotive radars is highly demanded for different applications from early-stage radar development to functions development, verification and validation for driver assistance or autonomous driving. This requires a radar target simulator (RTS) capable of generating many point targets with arbitrary trajectories. This paper introduces a fundamentally different RTS approach compared with the existing delay-line based methods. In this approach, the perception of a moving target is created in the spectrum domain. The result is a flexible and affordable RTS. It has some advantages desirable for automotive industry such as the possibility to simulate close-to-zero minimum distances and multiple targets. Since there is no processing delay, this method is suitable for safety-critical tests in over-the-air hardware-in-the-loop setups.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124545983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 79GHz 4RX-2TX SiGe-Integrated Sequential Sampling Pulse Radar","authors":"A. Leibetseder, C. Wagner, A. Stelzer","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299079","url":null,"abstract":"A 79GHz, SiGe-integrated, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sequential sampling pulse radar is presented. The radar sensor is equipped with two transmit channels and four coherent receive channels and is manufactured in a 250GHz fT SiGe BiCMOS technology. The fabricated chip is tested by in-system measurements using a uniform patch antenna array, which is fabricated on an RF PCB.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122085267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On UWB Pulse Distortion Caused by Amplifiers and Mismatched Antennas","authors":"David Veit, M. Gadringer, E. Leitgeb","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299019","url":null,"abstract":"This publication examines the influence of amplifiers and antenna mismatch on an ultra-wideband pulse. Using a state of the art ultra-wideband chip and an external power amplifier, we analyzed the impact of gain compression on the estimated channel impulse response. In addition, the impact of multiple reflections between a mismatched antenna and the amplifier output was investigated for different electrical lengths between the two. We showed that the peak power of an ultra-wideband signal is significant for the dynamic range of the calculated cross correlation function. Furthermore, we discussed which distortion and multipath effects really have an influence on the ranging estimate of an UWB system.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129894408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bayesian Grouping of Multi Sensor Radar Fusion for effective Pedestrian Classification in Automotive Surround View","authors":"Santhana Raj, Dipanjan Ghosh","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299033","url":null,"abstract":"Surround view for automotive are being performed using cameras to provide a complete view of the vehicle surrounding for parking assist or to avoid any blind spot while driving. Radar based surround view for automotive further improves the object detection capability. This paper explains the point cloud processing that has been performed on multi sensor Radar data and the increased advantage for further processing. The initial processing handles the merging of four radar sensors’ point cloud data which are positioned on four sides of the automobile. Once the data is merged by appropriate transformation, based on sensor position and facing angle, a Bayesian approach to grouping of object points which appear in the overlapping field of view is implemented to avoid it being detected as multiple objects. This merged object provides additional information which can be effectively utilized for pedestrian classification. This paper details the specific challenges related to achieving surround view by using a 77GHz radar sensor and the advantages in pedestrian classification.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126218770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ICMIM 2020 TOC","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/icmim48759.2020.9299087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icmim48759.2020.9299087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126521213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Batra, V. Vu, Yamen Zantah, M. Wiemeler, M. Pettersson, D. Goehringer, T. Kaiser
{"title":"Sub-mm Resolution Indoor THz Range and SAR Imaging of Concealed Object","authors":"A. Batra, V. Vu, Yamen Zantah, M. Wiemeler, M. Pettersson, D. Goehringer, T. Kaiser","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299034","url":null,"abstract":"In radar systems, the frequency range is being extended to high frequencies such as THz for sub-mm resolution. The spectrum offers high resolution but on the contrary, propagation distance and penetration depth are limited because of smaller wavelength. It suffers from higher atmospheric absorption in comparison to sub-GHz systems. In comparison to optical technology, the radar technique majorly benefits with respect to the penetration property such as cloud/smoke cover penetration and detection of concealed objects. However, the THz range and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of concealed objects are not very well established. Therefore, this paper examines this property at THz. A testbed has been set up with a bandwidth of 110 GHz at a carrier frequency of 275 GHz. The imaging is performed of a very small metal object. Firstly, the sub-mm resolution is validated with the experiment after that the range and SAR imaging are performed in which this object is covered with different types of materials. The backscattered data is processed with the image reconstruction algorithms and the results are presented in this paper with respect to sub-mm resolution and detection.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"335 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113999404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamad Basim Alabd, Lucas Giroto de Oliveira, Benjamin Nuss, W. Wiesbeck, T. Zwick
{"title":"Time-Frequency Shift Modulation for Chirp Sequence based Radar Communications","authors":"Mohamad Basim Alabd, Lucas Giroto de Oliveira, Benjamin Nuss, W. Wiesbeck, T. Zwick","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9298987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9298987","url":null,"abstract":"Combining radar and communication systems plays a vital role in designing future wireless systems due to its growing success in reducing spectrum congestions. In this paper, measurements in an anechoic chamber and simulations are presented to verify the adaptation on the typical fast chirp radar signal structure for enabling a communication feature. Moreover, a correction method is suggested to preserve the use of 2D-FFT for radar signal processing, which can be easily implemented using the current radar sensors. The measurement setups have been implemented using software-defined radios (SDRs), and symbol error rate curves (SER) are shown related to the investigated measurement and simulation scenarios, which support the revamping of the conventional chirp waveform.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124003999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Passafiume, M. Lucarelli, G. Collodi, A. Cidronali
{"title":"A Road-Side Unit Architecture Suitable for Concurrent Multi-Lane Vehicular Communications","authors":"M. Passafiume, M. Lucarelli, G. Collodi, A. Cidronali","doi":"10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIM48759.2020.9299002","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a novel approach for concurrent synchronous multi-lane communications between Road Side Units (RSUs) and On-Board Units (OBUs), based on the flexibility of software defined radio receivers. By exploiting frequency multiplexing, the proposed technique guarantees the concurrent communications of two RSUs with the same OBU across the road, without any need for additional selective filtering. The technique applies to the electronic toll collecting systems operating under the ETSI ES200674 communication standard, in which it enables the free-flow application. Experimental validations show a behavior backing the suggested technique, and field tests demonstrate a communication area compatible with the real-case scenario usage.","PeriodicalId":150515,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130793203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}