TARGET TRACKING USING REGION COVARIANCE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180275265A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15467465

    申请日:2017-03-23

    CPC classification number: G01S13/723 G01S13/931

    Abstract: A vehicle, system and method for tracking an object with respect to the vehicle. A radar system receives a first plurality of detections from an object during a first time frame and a second plurality of detection during a second time frame. A region covariance matrix is calculated for a cluster formed from the first plurality of detections. An updated covariance matrix for the cluster is calculated from the region covariance matrix of the first time frame. A region covariance matrix is calculated for each of a plurality of clusters formed from the second plurality of detections. A metric is determined between the updated covariance matrix and each region covariance matrix from the second time frame. The object is tracked by associating the region covariance matrix from the second time frame having the smallest metric to the region covariance matrix of the first time frame.

    ADAPTIVE PROCESS NOISE DESCRIPTION FOR IMPROVED KALMAN FILTER TARGET TRACKING

    公开(公告)号:US20180252804A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-06

    申请号:US15447376

    申请日:2017-03-02

    Abstract: A system and method to perform target tracking with a radar system that uses a Kalman filter include predicting a predicted target position of a target detected by the radar system in a frame. The frame is a period of time to transmit from every transmit element of the radar system in turn and receive the reflections from a range of the target. The method also includes determining an actual target positon of the target detected by the radar system based on reflections received by the radar system for the frame, and computing a process noise covariance matrix Q for a next frame, immediately following the frame, based on the predicted target position and the actual target position. Predicting a position of the target in the next frame is based on the process noise covariance matrix Q.

    RADAR I-Q MISMATCHING MEASUREMENT AND CALIBRATION

    公开(公告)号:US20180252798A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-06

    申请号:US15450549

    申请日:2017-03-06

    CPC classification number: G01S7/4021 G01S13/32 G01S13/58 G01S13/931

    Abstract: A method of calibrating a radar system of a vehicle is disclosed. A source signal is transmitted from a transmitter at a target at a selected location from the radar system. An echo signal is received as a reflection of the source signal from the target at an in-phase channel and quadrature channel of a receiver. A range space for the echo signal is obtained that includes a target peak corresponding to the target, wherein the range space includes a ghost peak for the target resulting from an IQ difference between the in-phase and quadrature channels. The IQ difference between the in-phase and quadrature channels is adjusted to reduce an amplitude of the ghost frequency peak.

    LOW LATENCY DECODING IN MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT RADAR

    公开(公告)号:US20170371030A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-28

    申请号:US15190392

    申请日:2016-06-23

    Abstract: A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar system and method of performing low-latency decoding in a MIMO radar system. The method includes transmitting a different linear frequency-modulated continuous wave (LFM-CW) transmit signal from each of N transmit elements of the MIMO radar system, each transmit signal associated with teach of the N transmit elements including a respective code, and receiving reflections associated with each of the transmit signals from each of the N transmit elements at each receive element of the MIMO radar system. Processing each symbol corresponding with each received reflection on a symbol-by-symbol basis is done to obtain a respective decoded signal prior to receiving all the received reflections associated with all the N transmit elements, wherein the processing includes using a Hadamard matrix with N columns in which each column is associated with the respective code transmitted by each of the N transmit elements.

    CURVED SENSOR ARRAY FOR IMPROVED ANGULAR RESOLUTION

    公开(公告)号:US20170222332A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-03

    申请号:US15409865

    申请日:2017-01-19

    CPC classification number: H01Q21/20 H01Q1/125 H01Q15/16

    Abstract: A method is disclosed for optimizing an angular resolution across a field-of view for an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements positioned along a curved surface. The method includes selecting a position along the curved surface for a first antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements and calculating subsequent positions for each of the remaining plurality of antenna elements on the antenna array, wherein the subsequent positions are determined relative to the position of the first antenna element and wherein the subsequent positions represent positions at which a maximum angular resolution is achieved for all angles in the field-of-view.

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