Radar target simulator with complex-valued delay line modeling based on standard radar components

<p>With increasing radar activities in the automotive, industrial and private sector, there is a need to test radar sensors in their environment. A radar target simulator can help testing radar systems repeatably. In this paper, the authors present a concept of low-cost hardware for radar t...

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Main Authors: A. R. Diewald, M. Steins, S. Müller
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-12-01
Series:Advances in Radio Science
Online Access:https://www.adv-radio-sci.net/16/203/2018/ars-16-203-2018.pdf
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Summary:<p>With increasing radar activities in the automotive, industrial and private sector, there is a need to test radar sensors in their environment. A radar target simulator can help testing radar systems repeatably. In this paper, the authors present a concept of low-cost hardware for radar target simulation. The theoretical foundations are derived and analyzed. An implementation of a demonstrator operating in the 24&thinsp;GHz ISM band is shown for which the dynamical range simulation was implemented in a FPGA with fast sampling ADCs and DACs. By using a FIR filtering approach a fine discretization of the range could be reached which will furthermore allow an inherent and automatic Doppler simulation by moving the target.</p>
ISSN:1684-9965
1684-9973