Frequency Estimation of Short Range Radar Using Adaptive FIR Notch Filter and SAGC for Velocity Detection

This research proposes the velocity detection for short range radar using an adaptive FIR notch filter and a sinusoidal automatic gain control scheme (SAGC). A HB 100 module with amplifying gain of 20 times produces Doppler signal and this signal is fed to a laptop through a sound card with sampling frequency of 8000 Hertz. The signal is processed by the SAGC to amplify the amplitude of the signal to be unity. To detect the frequency of the signal, an algorithm of indirect frequency estimation based on adaptive FIR notch filter is performed. After that, the resulting frequency is converted to velocity. All procedures in this work are processed by MATLAB program. The results of the proposed method have better signal to noise ratio compared with existing method. In addition, the presented work consumes low computational time.