Abstract:
A vehicle travel assistance apparatus includes a transceiver that transmits radio waves and receives reflected waves, a detector that detects a forward vehicle traveling ahead of a vehicle and a pedestrian based on intensities of the reflected waves, and a controller that, in a case the detector detects a stop state of the forward vehicle, a stop state of the vehicle and a presence of the pedestrian during the forward vehicle following, continues a stationary state of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A transmitting array antenna includes a second antenna group placed in a position inside a first antenna group in a first direction and a position different from the first antenna group in a second direction. A receiving array antenna includes a fourth antenna placed in a position outside a third antenna group arranged in the first direction and a position different from the third antenna group in the second direction. An interelement spacing between a receiving antenna of the third antenna group located at an end on a second side is identical to an interelement spacing in the first direction between a transmitting antenna of the first antenna group on the first side and each of the second antenna group. In a case where the first antenna group and the third antenna group are identical in position in the second direction, positions of antennas are different.
Abstract:
A vehicle movement estimation device has a radar that is provided in a vehicle and that performs transmission of a radar wave and reception of a reflected wave that is the radar wave reflected by an object, a radar movement estimator that estimates a radar movement velocity and a radar movement direction of the radar based on the received reflected wave, an angular velocity estimator that estimates a rotational angular velocity of the vehicle, and a vehicle movement estimator that estimates a movement velocity and a movement direction of a prescribed position of the vehicle based on the estimated radar movement velocity and radar movement direction, the estimated rotational angular velocity, and a spatial relationship between the radar and the prescribed position.
Abstract:
A transmission system is provided with a pulse sequence generator that generates a pulse sequence including Golay code or Spano code, a π/2-BPSK modulator that applies π/2-BPSK modulation to the pulse sequence generated by the pulse sequence generator, and a phase rotator that provides phase rotation for every pulse for output of the π/2-BPSK modulator and a reception system is provided with a phase rotator that provides a phase opposite to a phase provided by the phase rotator of the transmission system and a correlator that performs correlation calculation for output of the phase rotator, based on the output of the π/2-BPSK modulator.
Abstract:
In a direction estimator, a horizontal array maximum likelihood estimator calculates first maximum likelihood values corresponding to NW angles in a first direction by performing a maximum likelihood estimation process on the first direction using signals received by a first virtual linear array and extracts first candidate angles of arrival of incoming waves in the first direction. A vertical array maximum likelihood estimator calculates second maximum likelihood values corresponding to the NW angles in a second direction by performing a maximum likelihood estimation process on the second direction using signals received by a second virtual linear array and extracts second candidate angles of arrival of incoming waves in the second direction. A horizontal/vertical maximum likelihood estimator estimates, using the first and second candidate angles of arrival, angles of arrival of the NW incoming waves in a two-dimensional plane extending in the first and second directions.
Abstract:
A radar apparatus includes an antenna that receives echo signals, each of the echo signals being a radar signal reflected by one or more objects; a Doppler-frequency acquirer that acquires Doppler frequencies at each range bin from the received echo signals; a direction correlation power-value calculator that calculates direction correlation power values for respective combinations of the Doppler frequencies and at least one of a distance to the one or more objects and an arrival direction of the echo signals, each direction correlation power value indicating a strength of a corresponding echo signal; and a normalized direction correlation-value calculator that calculates, for the respective combinations, normalized direction correlation values, each normalized direction correlation value indicating a probability of the arrival direction of the corresponding echo signal.
Abstract:
A radar apparatus is mountable on a vehicle, transmits a radar signal, and includes a radio receiver that receives reflected wave signals being the radar signal reflected by multiple objects present in the viewing angle of the radar apparatus via a receiving antenna mountable on a side of the vehicle, a signal processing unit that determines the azimuths of the objects, the Doppler speeds between the radar apparatus and the objects, and the intensities of the reflected wave signals by using the reflected wave signals, and a radar state estimation unit that estimates the speed and traveling direction of the radar using the azimuths of the objects, the Doppler speeds, and the intensities.
Abstract:
In a position estimation processing unit, by using the reflected wave signal of an array composed of receiving antennas arranged in a first direction among a plurality of receiving antennas, a maximum likelihood value extraction unit extracts the angle of arrival of a reflected wave signal in a first direction. An angle spread detection unit detects the angle spread in the first direction around the angle of arrival by using the reflected wave signal of the array. A target height estimation unit estimates the position of the target in the first direction by using the angle of arrival and the angle spread.
Abstract:
A radar device includes: a transmission beam controller that selects, every first period, a transmission beam set used for transmission of a radar signal from among a plurality of transmission beam sets each including at least two transmission beam directions; and a radar transmitter that transmits the radar signal in a predetermined transmission period by using the selected transmission beam set, wherein the transmission beam controller switching, every second period within the first period, among the at least two transmission beam directions included in the transmission beam set.