Anticollision radar, especially for an aircraft when taxiing, and anticollision system

    公开(公告)号:US10585186B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-10

    申请号:US15034371

    申请日:2014-11-07

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A radar attached laterally to airplane fuselage to detect obstacles on a collision course with a portion of the airplane facing the radar. The radar includes an emission antennal channel and reception antennal channels in the same plane. The radar Establishing in a radar coordinate system a first distance/Doppler map allowing echoes to be separated into distance and Doppler resolution cells in reception antennal channels; Establishing a second distance/Doppler map of smaller size by selecting a subset of distance/Doppler resolution cells corresponding to possible positions of targets liable to collide with the airplane; Establishing new distance/Doppler maps by forming beams computationally from the subsets of distance resolution cells; and Temporal integration, in each beam, of successive distance/Doppler maps.

    Multi-resolution FMCW radar detection method and radar implementing such a method

    公开(公告)号:US10551488B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US15649356

    申请日:2017-07-13

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A detection method implementing an FMCW waveform is provided, the emitted waveform is formed of a recurring pattern of given period Tr covering an emission frequency band of given width B, each pattern being divided into a given number P of sub-patterns of duration Tr/P covering an excursion frequency band ΔF=B/P, the sub-patterns being mutually spaced by a frequency interval equal to ΔF. The radar performs: a first distance-compression processing operation carrying out a low-resolution distance compression at the scale of each recurring pattern on a fraction B/P of the emission band of width B corresponding to the frequency band covered by each of the sub-patterns; a Doppler processing operation on a given number N of successive recurrences so as to form P ambiguous distance-Doppler maps of low distance resolution, the maps being segmented into various speed domains; a second distance-compression processing operation of resolution that differs depending on the speed domain to which the relative speed of the target with respect to the radar belongs.

    Aircraft-landing-assistance method and device for aligning an aircraft with a runway

    公开(公告)号:US11137492B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-05

    申请号:US16691005

    申请日:2019-11-21

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: The method includes a step of forming, with a radar, a number N of beams of equal angular width that irradiate a runway and a portion of the surroundings of the runway; a step of dividing the zone irradiated by the beams into distance-angle boxes, the beams delineating the boxes anglewise; a step of taking measurements of backscattered power received from distance-angle boxes, the measurements being carried out for a set of pairs of boxes, a pair being composed of two boxes of same distance one of which, called the right box, crosses the right edge (3D) of the runway, and the other of which, called the left box, crosses the left edge (3G); a step of computing, for each pair, the difference in backscattered power between the right box and the left box, the aircraft being aligned with the axis when the difference is zero for at least two pairs of distance-angle boxes.

    Method for deleting a signal coming from an on-board radar

    公开(公告)号:US10782387B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US16011626

    申请日:2017-01-04

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A method including providing a replica of a signal emitted by an on-board radar, receiving by a radar detector a signal, the received signal being the sum of a first signal depending on the signal emitted by the on-board radar and a second signal independent of the signal emitted by the on-board radar, the first signal being able to be represented by a linear combination of elementary signals each having an amplitude coefficient and a delay relative to the signal emitted by the on-board radar, processing the received signal, determining the amplitude coefficients and the delays of the elementary signals of the first signal relative to the signal emitted by the on-board radar, from the provided replica and the processed received signal, and eliminating, in the processed received signal, the first signal to obtain the second signal, from the provided replica.

    Radar with low interception probability

    公开(公告)号:US09664778B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-30

    申请号:US14382513

    申请日:2013-02-28

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A radar and method for making a radar undetectable, comprising comprises: on a transmit antenna consisting of N individual subarrays that are non-directional in at least one plane in transmission, each being linked to a waveform generator, generating, for each of the individual subarrays, a waveform so as to make each of the individual subarrays transmit continuous or quasi-continuous signals according to a temporal and periodic pattern by using transmission patterns made up of N different subarrays and which are deduced from one another by an individual delay, on the receive antenna comprising M individual subarrays adapted to pick up the reflected signals obtained from the transmission of the N individual subarrays of the transmit antenna, performing a compression of the received signal in space and in time of the received signals.

    RADAR WITH LOW INTERCEPTION PROBABILITY
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    发明申请
    RADAR WITH LOW INTERCEPTION PROBABILITY 有权
    具有低截距概率的雷达

    公开(公告)号:US20150061928A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-05

    申请号:US14382513

    申请日:2013-02-28

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: A radar and method for making a radar undetectable, comprising comprises: on a transmit antenna consisting of N individual subarrays that are non-directional in at least one plane in transmission, each being linked to a waveform generator, generating, for each of the individual subarrays, a waveform so as to make each of the individual subarrays transmit continuous or quasi-continuous signals according to a temporal and periodic pattern by using transmission patterns made up of N different subarrays and which are deduced from one another by an individual delay, on the receive antenna comprising M individual subarrays adapted to pick up the reflected signals obtained from the transmission of the N individual subarrays of the transmit antenna, performing a compression of the received signal in space and in time of the received signals.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于制造雷达不可检测的雷达和方法,包括:在由传输中的至少一个平面中的非方向性的N个单独子阵列组成的发射天线上,每个子阵列被链接到波形发生器,为每个个体生成 子阵列,波形,以使每个单独的子阵列通过使用由N个不同子阵列组成的并由各个延迟相互推断的传输模式,根据时间和周期性模式传输连续或准连续的信号 所述接收天线包括M个单独的子阵列,其适于拾取从所述发射天线的N个独立子阵列的传输获得的反射信号,在接收到的信号的时间和时间内执行接收信号的压缩。

    Processing method for coherent MIMO radar using DDMA waveforms

    公开(公告)号:US11726171B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-15

    申请号:US17084495

    申请日:2020-10-29

    Applicant: THALES

    CPC classification number: G01S7/288 G01S13/582 G01S7/2883 G01S13/913

    Abstract: A method for processing coherent MIMO radar processing DDMA waveforms includes: generating waveforms on transmitters, the waveforms, modulo the pulse repetition frequency, being identical from one transmitter to the next, to within a phase ramp specific to each transmit path; generating, for at least one receiver, a Range-Doppler representation of echoes of transmitted waveforms, where, for each receiver, echoes of a transmitter occupy at least one frequency cell in the Doppler spectrum, each signal band specific to a transmitter, placement of the signal bands in the Doppler spectrum being determined by phase ramp applied to each transmitter, the waveforms generated to leave a portion of Doppler spectrum between two signal bands unoccupied; identifying the transmitter corresponding to each signal band, due to Range-Doppler representation of echoes of transmitted waveforms. The method is suitable for the millimetre band, automotive or aircraft radar, for detection of target relative to the carrier.

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