R. Blázquez-García, P. Almorox-Gonzalez, M. Burgos-García, Carlos Callejero-Andres, Julio Pantoja-Dominguez, Ignacio Gómez-Maqueda
{"title":"Perimeter surveillance radar in W-band based on vehicle collision avoidance technology","authors":"R. Blázquez-García, P. Almorox-Gonzalez, M. Burgos-García, Carlos Callejero-Andres, Julio Pantoja-Dominguez, Ignacio Gómez-Maqueda","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346290","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for portable and high-resolution radar systems that carry out surveillance functions in hostile environments. There are several works about radar systems in millimeter-wave frequencies for automotive applications and the objective is to go beyond and to develop a lightweight, small and low-cost surveillance radar based on vehicle collision avoidance technology. In this paper, the design of the radar sensor at 77 GHz and the implemented signal and data processing are presented. The sensor is based on hybrid technology: microstrip, waveguide and MMIC. The signal and data processing carries out a Doppler processing and a target tracking.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128238105","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}
X. Ding, Aret Carlsen, J. Schaefer, Matthew Marple, Dirk Klotzbucher, Walter Poiger, Bjorn Brust, Florian Trompeter
{"title":"Theory and practice: A two-channel automotive radar for three-dimensional object detection","authors":"X. Ding, Aret Carlsen, J. Schaefer, Matthew Marple, Dirk Klotzbucher, Walter Poiger, Bjorn Brust, Florian Trompeter","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346288","url":null,"abstract":"A two-channel automotive Doppler radar for three-dimensional, including azimuth, elevation, and range, object detection has been designed. In order to achieve both high quality AEB performance and low cost, two separate RX-systems (mid-range and short-range) and two TX-antenna arrays oppositely squinted in elevation and separated by half of the operating frequency wavelength along the y-axis, are arranged carefully on a 4-layer RF-PCB. The radar operates in two frequency bands: 24.00 ~ 24.25GHz ISM band and 24.25 ~ 25.65GHz UWB band. A statistical algorithm is applied to determine target elevation.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129248858","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}
N. del-Rey-Maestre, D. Mata-Moya, P. Jarabo-Amores, P. Gomez-del-Hoyo, J. Martin-de-Nicolas
{"title":"Single MLP-CFAR for a radar Doppler processor based on the ML criterion. Validation on real data","authors":"N. del-Rey-Maestre, D. Mata-Moya, P. Jarabo-Amores, P. Gomez-del-Hoyo, J. Martin-de-Nicolas","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346235","url":null,"abstract":"This paper tackles the evaluation of radar detectors with real data in a scenario composed by targets with unknown Doppler shift and sea clutter. A Neural Network-based Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) technique, NN-CFAR, is compared with reference detection schemes based on Doppler processors and conventional CFAR detectors. In these reference solutions, although CFAR techniques are designed for a desired false alarm rate, PFA, we prove that the final PFA rate is higher than the desired one. In this paper, a detection performance improvement is obtained with a detector that is a better approximation to the Neyman-Pearson detector based on the generalized Likelihood Ratio (selecting the maximum filter bank output), and uses a unique CFAR detector. Due to the non-linear nature of the maximum function, conventional CFAR detectors are not suitable. The improved detector is designed and applied to real data acquired by a coherent and pulsed radar system at X-band frequencies. Results prove that the NN-CFAR provides a higher probability of detection while fulfilling the PFA requirement.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"401 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115918805","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}
H. Zemmour, G. Baudoin, C. Hamouda, A. Diet, M. Biancheri-Astier
{"title":"Impact of soil on UWB buried antenna and communication link in IR-UWB WUSN applications","authors":"H. Zemmour, G. Baudoin, C. Hamouda, A. Diet, M. Biancheri-Astier","doi":"10.1109/EUMC.2015.7346028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUMC.2015.7346028","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSN) consists of buried sensors nodes which are expected to communicate through the soil. The significantly high attenuation caused by the soil properties is the main challenge for their feasibility. This challenge is accentuated with Impulse Radio Ultra-Wide Band (IR-UWB) WUSN because of the very low transmitted power. This paper first studies the impact of the soil on performances of a new small UWB buried antenna and then analyzes the effect of soil properties on the communication link from underground to aboveground. This study includes the effect of soil moisture, burial depth and frequency. Measurements are achieved in a sample of soil composed of standard pebbles used in railway (railroad ballast). The simulations and measurements results show that with short distances and low soil moisture underground to aboveground UWB communication is possible.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117344082","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}
F. Barbaresco, P. Jugé, Patrick Bruchec, D. Cañal, M. Klein, J. Maintoux, F. Orlandi, C. Rahatoka, Y. Ricci, J. Schneider
{"title":"Eddy Dissipation Rate (EDR) retrieval with ultra-fast high range resolution Electronic-Scanning X-band airport radar: Results of European FP7 UFO Toulouse Airport trials","authors":"F. Barbaresco, P. Jugé, Patrick Bruchec, D. Cañal, M. Klein, J. Maintoux, F. Orlandi, C. Rahatoka, Y. Ricci, J. Schneider","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346258","url":null,"abstract":"At airports, runway operation is the limiting factor for the overall throughput; specifically the fixed and overly conservative ICAO wake turbulence separation minima. The wake turbulence hazardous flows can dissipate quicker because of decay due to air turbulence or be transported out of the way on oncoming traffic by cross-wind, yet wake turbulence separation minima do not take into account wind conditions. Indeed, for safety reasons, most airports assume a worst-case scenario and use conservative separations. However, with the aid of accurate EDR (Eddy Dissipation Rate) retrieval by Ultra-Fast High-Range Resolution X-band Electronic-Scanning radar sensors, more efficient intervals can be set, particularly when atmosphere is unstable and turbulent, accelerating Wake-Vortex decay. Depending on traffic volume, these adjustments can generate capacity gains, which have major commercial benefits. This paper presents Electronic scanning radar trials at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport for UFO (Ultra-Fast wind sensOrs for wake-vortex hazards mitigation) project, funded by European FP7 program, on Radar EDR retrieval & Calibration.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131821960","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. Mehmood, M. Nikfalazar, M. Sohrabi, R. Jakoby, M. Hovhanisyan, M. Letz
{"title":"Bulk-glass ceramic based stacked dielectric resonator antenna as phased array element","authors":"A. Mehmood, M. Nikfalazar, M. Sohrabi, R. Jakoby, M. Hovhanisyan, M. Letz","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346299","url":null,"abstract":"Stacked dielectric resonator antenna from high-k low loss bulk-glass ceramic material have been investigated. Two resonators are stacked with an air gap which has been realized with a low loss foam material. The antenna showed a wide bandwidth with the dimension of 7.7×6.7×2.5mm for the lower dielectric resonator and 8.7×7.7×3.3mm for the upper dielectric resonator. Thus the maximum dimension is 0.23 λ0×0.20 λ0 at 8GHz which is very compact. This makes it very appropriate for array applications to reduce the direct mutual coupling through near-field. The antenna has been manufactured and characterized. For the fabricated antenna the -10 dB impedance bandwidth is 20% and operating frequency from 7.4 to 9GHz. The measured gain at 8GHz is 7.23 dB.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130328742","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":"Approximate fractality of sea clutter fractional fourier transform spectrum","authors":"Ningbo Liu, Hao Ding, Yonghua Xue, Yong Huang","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346251","url":null,"abstract":"As a generalization of the classical Fourier Transform (FT), the Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT) has many applications in several fields, such as optics and signal processing. In this paper, the scaling property of the FRFT spectrum is studied in depth and the approximate similarity between the FRFT spectra is presented. The analytical results show that the approximate similarity can be observed in some specific FRFT spectra of a time signal, which correspond to some specific transform orders (or rotating angles). In other words, the FRFT spectra of a time signal are approximate fractal at some specific transform orders. In the end, X-band and C-band real radar data is used for the verification of the conclusion.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130671252","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. Lamanna, P. Monsurrò, P. Tommasino, A. Trifiletti
{"title":"Spectrum estimation for cognitive radar","authors":"M. Lamanna, P. Monsurrò, P. Tommasino, A. Trifiletti","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346270","url":null,"abstract":"One of the critical functions of a cognitive radar is to examine a large frequency spectrum in real time, in order to detect the presence of narrowband emitters, which radiate on the same frequencies as a wideband radar. The final goal of spectrum monitoring is to recognize which frequency channels of the radar spectrum are occupied over a certain time period. In order to analyze the whole wide spectrum in real time, the time signal samples must be collected at a much lower rate than the Nyquist rate corresponding to the highest frequency of the considered spectrum. This paper proposes a novel approach based on the suitable correlation and averaging of a number of parallel asynchronous channels, each of which is heavily undersampled with respect to the Nyquist rate. We demonstrate that the analysis of the large spectrum is possible by applying our approach by using a limited number of asynchronous channels.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134467004","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":"Target detection using space-time adaptive processing (STAP) and a multi-band, multi-channel software defined passive radar","authors":"Mubashir Alam, K. Jamil, S. Alhumaidi","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346360","url":null,"abstract":"The use of passive radar for detection of targets of different type has gained considerable popularity in recent times. This radar uses the so-called the “signals of the opportunities” which are already in the environment. These opportunistic signals can be of different types, both in terms of frequency and modulation type. Therefore, instead of designing a separate hardware receiving system, a better approach will be design a single software defined receiver having capability to capture any signal of interest by just changing antenna system. This paper presents the development of a state of the art multi-channel, multi-band software defined passive radar. The complete hardware system with multi-channel receiver, and different antenna system has been designed, to give the system software-defined radio capability. The full chain of the signal processing algorithms for target detection will be presented. The algorithms include beamforming, space-time adaptive processing (STAP), and constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) detector framework. More emphasizes will be on the STAP algorithm and CFAR detector. Actual experimental data captured with a circular array is used to validate the system design and signal processing algorithms.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132313153","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 signal detection with mainlobe cancellation interference in Multisite Radar Systems and MIMO radars","authors":"V. Chernyak","doi":"10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURAD.2015.7346256","url":null,"abstract":"Signal detection in a background of mainlobe interference is one of the most difficult problems in radar practice because interference cancellation is usually accompanied with signal suppression. This problem is successfully solved in Multisite Radar Systems (MSRSs) with uncorrelated signal fluctuations at the inputs of receiving stations. There are published works where the capability of MIMO radars to cancel mainlobe interference without signal suppression using a number of different waveforms transmitted with arbitrary phases is declared. It is important to ascertain this capability of MIMO radars.","PeriodicalId":376019,"journal":{"name":"2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132809705","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}