H. Kabakchiev, V. Behar, I. Garvanov, D. Kabakchieva, A. Kabakchiev, H. Rohling, M. Bentum, J. Fernandes
{"title":"Feasibility of Cosmic Object Detection Using an X-ray FSR System","authors":"H. Kabakchiev, V. Behar, I. Garvanov, D. Kabakchieva, A. Kabakchiev, H. Rohling, M. Bentum, J. Fernandes","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768195","url":null,"abstract":"The feasibility of an X-ray Forward Scatter Radar (FSR) system, which exploits X-ray pulsars as opportunity transmitters, is examined. We provide a power budget estimate for detection of large cosmic objects using such a FSR system and assume the use of the high-resolution X-ray telescopes mounted on a satellite as the receivers. The numerical results are obtained for three types of pulsars and small asteroids, whose diameters equal and overcome 50m.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122517174","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}
L. Daniel, D. Phippen, E. Hoare, M. Cherniakov, M. Gashinova
{"title":"Image Segmentation in Real Aperture Low-THz Radar Images","authors":"L. Daniel, D. Phippen, E. Hoare, M. Cherniakov, M. Gashinova","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768106","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the proof of concept of a methodology for radar image segmentation in real aperture low-THz high resolution radar imagery, ultimately as a method to identify traversable free space for path planning for autonomous vehicles. The segmentation method, based on histogram thresholding of super-pixel statistical means is described and then applied to candidate high resolution radar images to show the potential for region finding. The subsequently segmented images are then qualitatively analysed, relevant features such as shadow and anomalous statistical regions are discussed related to identification of hazard areas for path planning.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132821795","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":"SE-Workbench-RF: Performant and High-Fidelity Raw Data Generation for Various Radar Applications","authors":"N. Douchin, C. Ruiz, J. Israel, H. Mametsa","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768180","url":null,"abstract":"Guidance of weapon systems relies on sensors to analyze targets signature. Defense weapon systems also need to detect and then identify threats also using sensors. One important class of sensors is radar systems that are very efficient for all weather detection. High frequency radars can produce high quality images with very complex features such as dihedral and corner reflector high scattering contributors, shadows and layover effects. Besides, image quality is very dependent on the carrier velocity and trajectory. Such sensors systems are so complex that they need simulation to be tested in a large variety of operational conditions. This paper presents a state-of-the-art solution, called SE-Workbench-RF, for generating raw data dedicated to radar simulation based on the exploitation of synthetic environments, which means physical modelling of targets and backgrounds (terrains, buildings, vegetation and other entities). The paper gives an overview of the models and their implementation in SE-RAY-EM, which is the rendering module of SE-Workbench-RF, including specific features related to radar simulation in the maritime environment with targets moving on the dynamic sea surface. Several technical topics are also discussed, such as the rendering technique (ray tracing vs. rasterization), the implementation (CPU vs. GP GPU) and the tradeoff between physical accuracy and computational performance.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130637751","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}
Stefan Haag, B. Duraisamy, H. Blöcher, J. Dickmann, M. Fritzsche, W. Koch
{"title":"Effects of Radar Interference on Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion on Automotive Applications","authors":"Stefan Haag, B. Duraisamy, H. Blöcher, J. Dickmann, M. Fritzsche, W. Koch","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768093","url":null,"abstract":"Demanding intelligent applications in automotive safety and autonomy domain leads to integration of many different types and number of radar sensors in the vehicles. Due to this factor, interference effects among the different radars from ego and other traffic participants becomes an unavoidable issue. Among other destructive effects, radar interference can cause range reduction. This lead to impact on applications such as Extended Object Tracking operating on the radar detection level data and this problem has to be investigated. In this investigation, missing radar detection data and the detection range reduction caused by radar interference effects are simulated with a Point Processes obtained from real world radar data. This paper introduces method for radar interference simulation on the detection level and examines the impact of simulated radar interference on radar Extended Object Tracking algorithm.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130886205","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":"Synthetic Aperture Radar Towards Automotive Applications","authors":"Thomas Gisder, M. Meinecke, E. Biebl","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768173","url":null,"abstract":"Today, in almost all vehicle classes automotive radars are used to increase driver safety by assistance systems like active cruise control (ACC) or blind spot detectors. Due to the continuous improvement of the measurement accuracies new fields of applications arise for radar like free space detection or localization. For example, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) makes it possible to improve the azimuth resolution by exploiting the driveway. The quality of the image, however, depends significantly on the accuracy of the motion estimation of the antenna. Current researches in this area use the vehicle odometry to estimate the antenna position. The following paper investigates an approach to carry out synthesis of an artificial aperture by means of radar-based motion estimation.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116916717","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}
Mohammad Mahdi Feraidooni, M. Alaee-Kerahroodi, Sadjad Imani, D. Gharavian
{"title":"Designing Set of Binary Sequences and Space-Time Receive Filter for Moving Targets in Colocated MIMO Radar Systems","authors":"Mohammad Mahdi Feraidooni, M. Alaee-Kerahroodi, Sadjad Imani, D. Gharavian","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768146","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we focus on designing set of discrete phase sequences (preferably binary) to enhance Signal to Noise Ratio (SINR) of colocated Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radar systems. To this end, we assume the reflected signal of a moving target, is contaminated with noise and clutter, and jointly design transmit waveform and receive filter by SINR maximization. The design problem is constrained and non-convex in general where using the Coordinate Descent (CD) framework, we propose an efficient algorithm to tackle it. Numerical examples that are provided in this paper, indicate excellent performance of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122643947","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}
G. Atkinson, Alp Sayin, C. Underwood, M. Cherniakov, M. Antoniou
{"title":"Passive SAR Satellite System (PASSAT): First airborne trials","authors":"G. Atkinson, Alp Sayin, C. Underwood, M. Cherniakov, M. Antoniou","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768099","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents progress made on the development and execution of an airborne experimental campaign, conducted as part of the ongoing investigation into the passive SAR satellite (PASSAT) concept. The proposed system uses terrestrial digital television broadcasting stations as illuminators of opportunity while the receivers are based on low-cost, nano-satellite platforms on low earth orbit. A hardware demonstrator was developed and mounted on an airborne platform and was used to image a rural area. The first airborne SAR image results are presented, as well as a point spread function analysis which validates the demonstrator and the image formation algorithms used","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115986657","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}
Daniel A. Brooks, Olivier Schwander, F. Barbaresco, J. Schneider, M. Cord
{"title":"Complex-valued neural networks for fully-temporal micro-Doppler classification","authors":"Daniel A. Brooks, Olivier Schwander, F. Barbaresco, J. Schneider, M. Cord","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768161","url":null,"abstract":"Micro-Doppler analysis commonly makes use of the log-scaled, real-valued spectrogram, and recent work involving deep learning architectures for classification are no exception. Some works in neighboring fields of research directly exploit the raw temporal signal, but do not handle complex numbers, which are inherent to radar IQ signals. In this paper, we propose a complex-valued, fully temporal neural network which simultaneously exploits the raw signal and the spectrogram by introducing a Fourier-like layer suitable to deep architectures. We show improved results under certain conditions on synthetic radar data compared to a real-valued counterpart.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125991023","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. Alaee-Kerahroodi, M. R. Bhavani Shankar, K. Mishra, B. Ottersten
{"title":"Meeting the Lower Bound on Designing Set of Unimodular Sequences with Small Aperiodic/Periodic ISL","authors":"M. Alaee-Kerahroodi, M. R. Bhavani Shankar, K. Mishra, B. Ottersten","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8768085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768085","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we aim at designing set of unimodular sequences with very small Integrated Sidelobe Level (ISL) values that are very close to the available lower bound on the ISL. The set of sequences designed in this paper, are applicable in Code-Division-Multiplexing Multiple Input Multiple Output (CDM-MIMO) radar systems which are attractive for emerging applications in automotive. The resulting problem is formulated as a constrained optimization, whereby we use the Coordinate Descent (CD) framework to tackle it, iteratively. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the robustness and performance improvements of the proposed method in meeting the lower bound on the ISL.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132453579","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}
C. Degen, C. Domnik, A. Kürten, M. Meuleners, M. Notz, R. Pohle-Fröhlich, E. Naroska
{"title":"Driver Assistance System for Pedelecs","authors":"C. Degen, C. Domnik, A. Kürten, M. Meuleners, M. Notz, R. Pohle-Fröhlich, E. Naroska","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2019.8767453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8767453","url":null,"abstract":"Driver assistance systems in cars are standard nowadays, using a wide range of sensors and appropriate signal processing for sensor fusion. Radar systems play a major role within such systems, being combined with cameras and further sensors. This paper elaborates on transferring such systems to pedelecs or e-bikes in order to support mainly elderly people in challenging traffic situations. The concept as well as first results with a prototype are described, focusing on sensor fusion between radar and camera. Moreover, power consumption is an important issue for this pedelec application, so that power saving concepts are highlighted in this paper.","PeriodicalId":155427,"journal":{"name":"2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115742641","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}