Multimode electronically steerable monopulse radar

    公开(公告)号:US12044773B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17569536

    申请日:2022-01-06

    摘要: An electronically steerable phased array and switching network connected to an FMCW radar transceiver to enable a low-cost monopulse tracking system that covers a wide field of regard using electronic beam steering. In a first mode, beamformer integrated circuits (BFICs) at each element in the array are switched synchronously with transmit/receive (T/R) switches located at the subarray level. This allows the entire aperture to be switched between transmission and reception, enabling the FMCW radar transceiver to be operated in a pulsed configuration. In a second mode, a portion of the T/R switches at the subarray level and all of the connecting BFICs at the element level are fixed in either transmitting or receiving mode, allowing separate portions of the aperture to concurrently transmit or receive. The arrangement of transmitting and receiving subarrays can be dynamically reconfigured to allow for accurate bearing and azimuth estimation using alternating monopulse.

    Method for acquiring environment information by means of multiple radar sensors

    公开(公告)号:US11874370B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17281858

    申请日:2019-09-23

    摘要: A method for acquiring information in the spatial environment of a vehicle, comprising: providing at least two radar sensors arranged at different positions at the vehicle; transmitting radar signals by the radar sensors, the radar signals being assigned to the radar sensors; receiving reflected components of the radar signals assigned to the radar sensors at the respective radar sensors and further processing these reflected components of the radar signals as reception information; assigning time information to the reception information obtained from the respective radar sensors, the time information forming a time reference for the reception information; assigning location information to the reception information obtained from the respective radar sensors, the location information forming a location reference for the reception information; and processing the reception information obtained from the at least two radar sensors into common environment information by taking into account the time information and the location information.

    Device, system and method for localization of a target in a scene

    公开(公告)号:US11762085B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US17042188

    申请日:2019-03-27

    申请人: Sony Corporation

    IPC分类号: G01S13/87 G01S13/44 G01S13/46

    摘要: A device comprising circuitry configured to: obtain radar signal measurements simultaneously acquired by two or more radar sensors having overlapping fields of view, derive range information of one or more potential targets from samples of radar signal measurements of said two or more radar sensors acquired at the same time or during the same time interval, the range information of a single sample representing a ring segment of potential positions of a potential target at a particular range from the respective radar sensor in its field of view, determine intersection points of ring segments of the derived range information, determine a region of the scene having one of the highest densities of intersection points, select a ring segment per sensor that goes through the selected region, and determine the most likely target position of the potential target from the derived range information of the selected ring segments.

    Radar apparatus, method for controlling radar apparatus and detection system using radar apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11733371B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US16811164

    申请日:2020-03-06

    申请人: HL KLEMOVE CORP.

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a radar apparatus including: an antenna including a first transmitting antenna, a second transmitting antenna, and a receiving antenna; a transmitter including a first modulator for generating a first transmission signal having an inverted phase of a source signal and transmitting the first transmission signal through the first transmitting antenna, and a second modulator for generating a second transmission signal having a shifted phase of the source signal and transmitting the second transmission signal through the second transmitting antenna; a receiver for receiving a reflection signal of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal reflected from the object through the receiving antenna; and a controller for obtaining information for the object based on the reflection signal. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to efficiently detect the object using the antenna having a simple structure.

    Radar system with sparse primary array and dense auxiliary array

    公开(公告)号:US11644565B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-09

    申请号:US17153788

    申请日:2021-01-20

    IPC分类号: G01S13/87 G01S13/931

    摘要: This document describes techniques and components of a radar system with a sparse primary array and a dense auxiliary array. Even with fewer antenna elements than a traditional radar system, an example radar system has a comparable angular resolution at a lower cost, lower complexity level, and without aliasing. The radar system includes a processor and antenna arrays that can receive electromagnetic energy reflected by one or more objects. The antenna arrays include a primary subarray and an auxiliary subarray. The auxiliary subarray includes multiple antenna elements with a smaller spacing than the antenna elements of the primary subarray. The processor can determine, using the received electromagnetic energy, first and second potential angles associated with the one or more objects. The processor then associates, using the first and second potential angles, respective angles associated with each of the one or more objects.

    SECONDARY RADAR WITH OPTIMIZED SPATIO-TEMPORAL MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20190146078A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US16302062

    申请日:2017-06-19

    申请人: THALES

    发明人: Philippe BILLAUD

    IPC分类号: G01S13/78 G01S13/87 H01Q21/20

    摘要: A radar is provided which is mechanically and functionally independent of the primary radar; applies the principles of separation of emission pattern for each interrogation of any mode; of reception pattern for each reply of any mode; of assignment of the tasks which are specific thereto to distinct units. The radar includes one or more SSR/IFF interrogators dedicated at one and the same time to SSR surveillance and to gathering new mode S targets; and includes one or more other SSR/IFF interrogators for selective surveillance dedicated to mode S surveillance and to directed interrogations of IFF identification. The radar ensures simultaneous emission of the interrogations of the SSR/IFF interrogators in different azimuths, this simultaneous emission being enabled when the azimuthal spacing of the beams formed in emission ensures a decoupled level of jamming at the level of the transponders of the aircraft between the interrogations emitted by the respective sidelobes of the beams formed in emission.

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING RADAR SIGNALS

    公开(公告)号:US20180284258A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15944902

    申请日:2018-04-04

    IPC分类号: G01S13/87 G01S7/35

    摘要: A method for processing radar signals includes emitting a first radar signal via a transmitting antenna of a first radar unit, where the first radar signal is phase modulated using a first code and a first frequency offset is added to at least a portion of the first radar signal, and emitting a second radar signal via a transmitting antenna of a second radar unit, where the second radar signal is phase modulated using a second code. The first code and the second code are orthogonal to each other and the first radar unit and the second radar unit are loosely coupled with each other. The method further includes receiving a combined radar signal via a receiving antenna of the first radar unit, where the combined radar signal comprises a reflections of the first and the second radar signals, and processing the combined radar signal at the first radar unit.

    System and method for TCAS based navigation
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    发明授权
    System and method for TCAS based navigation 有权
    用于TCAS导航的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08952841B1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-10

    申请号:US13349975

    申请日:2012-01-13

    摘要: A traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) based navigation system including a TCAS equipped with a directional antenna, the TCAS configured to generate a RF transmission pattern at a selected frequency, the transmission pattern including a plurality of directional beams, receive a plurality of RF signals reflected from the ground across a selected frequency band, the selected frequency band including the selected frequency, and measure frequency differences between one or more beams of the plurality of RF beams and one or more beams of the plurality of RF signals reflected from the ground, and a computing systems in communication with the TCAS, the computing system configured to calculate a ground speed of the aircraft utilizing the measured frequency differences, calculate a drift angle of the aircraft utilizing the measured plurality of frequency differences, receive a heading reference of the aircraft, and determine an aircraft navigation parameter of the aircraft.

    摘要翻译: 一种基于交通碰撞避免系统(TCAS)的导航系统,包括配备有定向天线的TCAS,所述TCAS被配置为以选定的频率生成RF传输模式,所述传输模式包括多个定向波束,接收多个RF信号 从选定频带的地面反射所选择的频带,包括所选择的频率,并且测量多个射频波束的一个或多个波束与从地面反射的多个RF信号中的一个或多个波束之间的频率差, 以及与所述TCAS通信的计算系统,所述计算系统被配置为使用所测量的频率差计算所述飞行器的地面速度,使用所测量的多个频率差计算所述飞行器的漂移角度,接收所述飞机的航向参考 ,并确定飞机的飞行器导航参数。