Method for radar detection and digitally modulated radar robust to IQ imbalance

    公开(公告)号:US12025729B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US17527796

    申请日:2021-11-16

    申请人: Imec vzw

    IPC分类号: G01S7/35 G01S13/32 G01S13/58

    摘要: A method is provided for facilitating radar detection robust to IQ imbalance. The method comprises the step of generating a radar signal in digital domain comprising a number of M periodic repetitions of a code sequence with a length Lc, multiplied with a progressive phase rotation





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    j
    ·

    π
    K

    ·
    n


    ,




    where Lc and M are integers, K is an integer or a non-integer, and n is a discrete integer variable. The method further comprises the step of generating a process input signal in digital domain from a reflection signal corresponding to the radar signal by multiplying the reflection signal with a progressive phase rotation






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    j

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    π
    K

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    n


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    In this context, K is defined such that a ratio





    Lc
    K




    is a non-integer, and M is defined such that a ratio






    Lc
    ·
    M

    K




    is an integer.

    RADAR TRANSCEIVER
    13.
    发明公开
    RADAR TRANSCEIVER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240175977A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18434704

    申请日:2024-02-06

    IPC分类号: G01S7/03 G01S7/35 G01S13/931

    摘要: A device, e.g., a radar transceiver, includes a receiver and a transmitter. One such device includes a phase shifter having a first input to receive an oscillating signal and a second input to receive a control signal. The device also includes a signal generator having a quadrature (Q) channel output to output a quadrature phase version of the oscillating signal; and a Q channel mixer having an input coupled to the Q channel output. A feedback path of the device includes a filter having an output and an input coupled to an output of the Q channel mixer, and an integrator having an input coupled to the output of the filter. The integrator has an output coupled to the second input of the phase shifter, in which the integrator outputs the control signal to the phase shifter.

    Frequency-converted frequency-modulated self-injection-locked radar

    公开(公告)号:US11747458B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US17197132

    申请日:2021-03-10

    IPC分类号: G01S13/34 G01S7/35

    CPC分类号: G01S13/341 G01S7/358

    摘要: A FCFMSIL radar includes a SILO, a frequency conversion unit, an antenna unit, a demodulation unit and a processing unit. The frequency conversion unit converts an oscillation signal of the SILO into a FMCW signal. The antenna unit transmits the FMCW signal to an area as a transmitted signal and receives a reflected signal from the area as a received signal. The frequency conversion unit converts the received signal into an injection signal and injects it into the SILO. The demodulation unit demodulates the oscillation signal into an in-phase demodulated signal and a quadrature demodulated signal. The processing unit processes the in-phase and the quadrature demodulated signals to obtain a baseband signal and thus acquire a phase and a frequency of a tone in the frequency-domain baseband signal, and determines the tone corresponding to one or multiple objects based on the phase and frequency of the tone.

    Method and system for frequency offset modulation range division MIMO automotive radar

    公开(公告)号:US11662427B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-30

    申请号:US16707224

    申请日:2019-12-09

    申请人: NXP USA, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01S7/35 G01S7/03 H04J3/02

    摘要: A radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided for generating a transmit reference or chirp signal to produce a plurality of transmit signals having different frequency offsets from the transmit reference signal for encoding and transmission as N radio frequency encoded transmit signals which are reflected from a target and received at a receive antenna as a target return signal that is down-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and converted by a high-speed analog-to-digital converter to a digital signal that is processed by a radar control processing unit which performs fast time processing steps to generate a range spectrum comprising N segments which correspond, respectively, to the N radio frequency encoded transmit signals transmitted over the N transmit antennas.