A. Eblabla, B. Benakaprasad, Xu Li, D. Wallis, I. Guiney, C. Humphreys, K. Elgaid
{"title":"Passive components technology for THz-Monolithic Integrated Circuits (THz-MIC)","authors":"A. Eblabla, B. Benakaprasad, Xu Li, D. Wallis, I. Guiney, C. Humphreys, K. Elgaid","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008166","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a viable passive components and transmission media technology is presented for THz-Monolithic Integrated Circuits (THz-MIC). The developed technology is based on shielded microstrip (S-MS) employing a standard monolithic microwave integrated circuit compatible process. The S-MS transmission media uses a 5-µm layer of benzocyclobutene (BCB) on shielded metalized ground plates avoiding any substrate coupling effects. An insertion loss of less than 3 dB/mm was achieved for frequencies up to 750 GHz. To prove the effectiveness of the technology, a variety of test structures, passive components and antennas have been design, fabricated and characterized. High Q performance was demonstrated making such technology a strong candidate for future THz-MIC technology for many applications such as radar, communications, imaging and sensing.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127194516","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}
Fabian Roos, M. Sadeghi, Jonathan Bechter, N. Appenrodt, J. Dickmann, C. Waldschmidt
{"title":"Ghost target identification by analysis of the Doppler distribution in automotive scenarios","authors":"Fabian Roos, M. Sadeghi, Jonathan Bechter, N. Appenrodt, J. Dickmann, C. Waldschmidt","doi":"10.18725/OPARU-6515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-6515","url":null,"abstract":"In an automotive environment the presence of reflecting surfaces cannot be avoided. The electromagnetic wave returning from a target vehicle can get reflected on those surfaces causing a non existing so-called ghost target. For driver assistance systems ghost targets can lead to false decisions and, therefore, they should be detected and avoided. In this paper a model for describing those ghost targets and a procedure to distinguish them from real targets using the orientation and the motion state of a vehicle is presented.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125851267","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":"Maritime Moving Target Indication and localisation with GNSS-based multistatic radar: Experimental proof of concept","authors":"Hui Ma, D. Tzagkas, M. Antoniou, M. Cherniakov","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008213","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the feasibility of using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) as the transmitters of opportunity in a passive maritime surveillance radar, mainly for the applications of maritime Moving Target Indication (MTI), as well as the target localization. This can be achieved using multistatic GNSS acquisitions with multiple satellites and a single receiver, and applying multilateration techniques. For an experimental verification, the target localisation concept was applied to practical maritime measurement conducted with GNSS-based radar test bed and bistatic ranges of one target for two different satellites successfully gained. The experimental localisation results have a high coincidence with the ground truth and confirm the system concept.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123903735","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":"Compressive sensing of up-sampled model and atomic norm for super-resolution radar","authors":"Dongshin Yang, Y. Jitsumatsu","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008110","url":null,"abstract":"Compressive sensing (CS) for radar signal processing is known to be capable of various applications. This signal processing technique shows excellent performance for detecting objects. However, the grid problem of CS is an obstacle to more precise performance. In this paper, we introduce two methods to overcome this grid problem and evaluate the performance of the methods. The first method is an up-sampled model, which is a method of dividing the grids into smaller pieces. The second method is an atomic norm minimization, which is a detectable method for continuous parameters.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128337239","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":"Software-defined Multiband Array Passive Radar (SMARP) project: An overview","authors":"A. Capria, M. Conti, C. Moscardini, F. Berizzi","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008100","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of the Software-defined Multiband Array Passive Radar (SMARP) project. The objective of the project was to design and realize a multiband passive radar demonstrator based on a software-defined solution and oriented to coastal surveillance applications. This work has been conceived in the framework of the Italian National Plan for Military Research. The project overall duration was 36 months and it was composed by three phases. The system concept and the results of each phase are presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121083398","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":"Migration to the DVB-T2-standard for passive radar","authors":"V. Winkler, Clemens Klöck, M. Edrich","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008104","url":null,"abstract":"With the introduction of DVB-T2 in Germany and other European countries as new standard for Digital Video Broadcasting the underlying passive radar signal processing has also to be adapted, because the currently used predecessor, DVB-T, is not compatible to DVB-T2 on the physical layer. DVB-T2 has been improved in order to achieve a higher data rate and to allow more flexibility for different use cases. This leads to an increased computational effort. The basic concept for the pilot pattern is maintained so that for both standards additional peaks are generated in the ambiguity function. This problem can be fixed with the same filtering approach. Full reconstruction of the OFDM symbols isn't possible on all sub-carriers for DVB-T2 for several reasons, e.g. peak power canceling algorithm. A special challenge respresents also the MISO-Mode (Multiple Input Single Output), where a single frequency network can be split into transmitter groups so that different, but similar signals are broadcasted. For normal broadcast receivers the interference of two transmitters with similar power can be removed in this mode, but for passive radar processing the superposition according to the ambiguity function and the cross-coupling functions are of importance so that the separation of target signals from line-of-sight-components and clutter is more involved.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116870152","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}
Yann Briheche, F. Barbaresco, F. Bennis, D. Chablat
{"title":"Update rates constraints in fixed-panel Radar Search Pattern Optimization with limited time budget","authors":"Yann Briheche, F. Barbaresco, F. Bennis, D. Chablat","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008155","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic Phased-Array Radars offer new possibilities for Radar Search Pattern Optimization by using bi-dimensional beam-forming and beam steering, along both elevation and azimuth axes. The Radar Search Pattern Optimization problem can be approximated as a Set Cover problem and solved using Integer Programming methods. This approximation can be extended to account for direction-specific scan update rates constraints without the need to modify the optimization algorithm.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123631143","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":"Random sample consensus algorithm for multiple target tracking in over-the-horizon radar","authors":"Hua Lan, Zhishan Zhang, ZengfuWang, Q. Pan","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008099","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple target tracking in over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) suffers from two major challenges due to the multipath propagation phenomenon. The first is multipath detection that detects appearing and disappearing targets automatically, while one target may produce s tracks for s propagation paths. The second is multipath tracking that calculates the target-to-measurement-to-path assignment matrices to estimate target states, which is computationally intractable due to the combinatorial explosions. A joint multipath target detection and tracking method is proposed based on random sample consensus (RANSAC). Using the iterative hypothesize-and-test framework of RANSAC, the close loop between identification of target-to-measurement-to-path and estimation of target states is established, which is conducive to improving the tracking performance by utilizing multipath measurements. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127765514","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. Knott, S. Stanko, H. Wilden, M. González-Huici, J. Worms
{"title":"RADAR systems - technology and challenges","authors":"P. Knott, S. Stanko, H. Wilden, M. González-Huici, J. Worms","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008083","url":null,"abstract":"During the last decade, numerous developments have not only improved and matured technology and signal processing methods of RADAR systems, but also paved the road for many new applications besides its traditional domains in defence and space. The rapid progress in performance of highly integrated electronic components (digital, analogue or mixed-signal) has enabled several trends such as miniaturization and cost reduction of sensor devices, a migration to higher frequencies in the millimeter and Terahertz domain, or real-time execution of mathematically complex signal and array processing methods. On the other hand, the electromagnetic spectrum is a scarce and strongly controlled resource that is proving to be increasingly valuable. Radar devices must be able to handle more signal bandwidth with greater receiver sensitivity and are competing with an increasing number of other systems for communication, navigation, or wireless connectivity. In this environment, it is necessary to understand the different requirements and find strategies of a co-existence without performance degradation.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125878716","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. Caris, W. Johannes, S. Sieger, V. Port, S. Stanko
{"title":"Detection of small UAS with W-band radar","authors":"M. Caris, W. Johannes, S. Sieger, V. Port, S. Stanko","doi":"10.23919/IRS.2017.8008143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2017.8008143","url":null,"abstract":"The detection and defense of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) is becoming increasingly important for the protection of public and private areas. The low cost of micro- and mini-drones, the easy handling, and a considerable payload make them an excellent tool for unwanted surveillance or attacks. The platforms can be equipped with all kind of sensors or, in the worst case, with explosive devices. On the other hand, the size, material, and flight characteristics of these micro aerial vehicles is not advantageous for their detection with any kind of sensor. Therefore, great efforts are needed to ensure reliable detection, localization, tracking, and classification of the low, small, and slow systems.","PeriodicalId":430241,"journal":{"name":"2017 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123340936","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}