Nxp B.v.

Nxp Usa, Inc.

Ryan Haoyun Wu

Maik Brett

Dongyin Ren

Michael Andreas Staudenmaier

Jun Li

Arunesh Roy

Satish Ravindran

Douglas Alan Garrity

Filip Alexandru Rosu

René Geraets

Wendi Zhang

Chunshu Li

Jayakrishnan Cheriyath Mundarath

Feike Guus Jansen

Gustavo Adolfo Guarin Aristizabal

Arnaud Sion

Adam Fuks

Tudor Bogatu

Sili Lu

Daniel Silion

Christian Tuschen

Jihwan Youn

Ruud Van Sloun

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a radar system and method of operation thereof, whereby a spectrogram is generated by processing circuitry of a radar system by converting samples, of reflections of transmitted radar signals reflected by an object in an environment of the radar system, into a time-frequency domain, determining at least one threshold based on at least one MIN-of-MAX value for magnitudes of a frequency signal of the spectrogram, generating an interference-suppressed spectrogram by removing or attenuating interference components from the spectrogram based on the at least one threshold, and generating interference-suppressed samples based on the interference-suppressed spectrogram.

Radar communication with interference suppression

A signal processing system and method includes a first input configured to receive an input signal range profile. The input signal range profile includes near-range interference signals. A second input is configured to receive a reference signal range profile; and a processor is configured to perform steps including: executing a recursive least squares operation to determine coefficient values of a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, wherein the coefficient values are selected to minimize a difference between the input signal range profile and the reference signal range profile when the reference signal range profile is filtered through the FIR filter to generate a filtered reference signal range profile, and subtracting the filtered reference signal range profile from the input signal range profile to remove the near-range interference signals from the input signal range profile.

Near-range interference mitigation for automotive radar system

A radar system includes transmitter and receiver antennas positioned to illuminate and receive reflections from a ground surface, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The processor obtains ground reflections, the corresponding ranges, and measured radial velocities, and determines a set of test ego velocities. For each test ego velocity and ground reflection, the processor generates a test radial velocity. The processor determines an absolute difference between the test radial velocity and the measured radial velocity, and whether the absolute difference satisfies a criterion. In response to satisfying the criterion, the absolute difference is accumulated into a total cost for the test ego velocity. After each ground reflection and test ego velocity is analyzed, the processor compares the total costs for the test ego velocities to obtain a smallest total cost and corresponding test ego velocity. The test ego velocity is an ego velocity of the radar system.

Ego velocity estimator for radar systems

A distributed aperture radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided for generating a completed virtual array aperture by using a radar control processing unit to construct a sparse forward-backward matrix from one or more sparse measurement array vectors and to generate beamforming outputs of a completed virtual array aperture by performing forward-backward matrix completion processing of the sparse forward-backward matrix to construct a completed forward-backward matrix by filling holes in the sparse MIMO virtual array aperture to suppress spurious sidelobes caused by holes in the sparse forward-backward matrix, thereby enabling computation of one or more super resolution direction of arrival (DoA) estimation values based on the completed forward-backward matrix.

Super-resolution MIMO sparse array automotive radar based on forward and backward hankel matrix completion

A linear chirp radar system, apparatus and method use a radar control processing unit to control an LFM radar front end which includes a frequency-scanning transmit antenna and a frequency-scanning receive antenna which respectively sweep a transmit and receive energy focus across an angle space with each linear chirp signal, where the radar control processing unit processes digital output signals generated from target return signals received in response to transmitted linear chirp signals and extracts target range-angle information by applying time-frequency analysis processing to the digital output signals to generate a first range-angle map which includes range-biased angle information, and then applying a group delay compensation process to generate a second range-angle map which includes target range-angle information that is generated by selectively adjusting the range-biased angular information in the first range-angle map with an angular adjustment.

Linear chirp automotive radar using millimeter wave metamaterial antennas

A linear chirp radar system, apparatus and method use a radar control processing unit to control an LFM radar front end which generates analog-to-digital (ADC) sample signals from one or more target return signals received in response to transmitted linear chirp radar signals, where the radar control processing unit is connected and configured to mitigate range migration by directly filtering the ADC samples using a modified Doppler filter that is tuned to fast-time scaled, slow-time frequencies to generate a focused ADC Doppler cube, and by applying a Fourier Transform on each Doppler cell in the focused ADC Doppler cube to generate a focused range-Doppler cube.

Automotive radar with range migration mitigation capability

Embodiments of systems and methods for estimating direction of arrival are disclosed. A device includes a signal processing unit that includes processing circuitry and memory coupled to the processing circuitry, where the processing circuitry includes multiple vector processing units, each vector processing unit configured to receive an antenna input vector, receive an angular spectrum vector, retrieve a first and second weighting vectors from the memory, generate a processed antenna input vector by performing a circular convolution of the antenna input vector with the first weighting vector, generate a processed angular spectrum vector by performing a circular convolution of the angular spectrum vector with the second weighting vector, and generate a refined angular spectrum vector, which indicates angular position of one or more radar targets, by applying a non-linear activation function to a sum of the processed antenna input vector and the processed angular spectrum vector.

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using circular convolutional network

A distributed radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method is provided for coherently combining physically distributed radars to jointly produce target scene information in a coherent fashion without sharing a common local oscillator (LO) reference by configuring a first (slave) radar to apply fast and slow time processing steps to target returns generated from a second (master) radar, to compute an estimated frequency offset and an estimated phase offset between the first and second radars based on information derived from the fast and slow time processing steps, and to apply the estimated frequency offset and estimated phase offset to generate a bi-static virtual array aperture at the first radar that is coherent in frequency and phase with a mono-static virtual array aperture generated at the second radar, thereby achieving better sensitivity, finer angular resolution, and low false detection rate.

Distributed aperture automotive radar system

Described are method and systems that implement time frequency domain threshold interference and localization fusion to resolve interference issues in an automotive radar system, that produces spectrograms using Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) for all receiving antennas of the automotive radar system. For each STFT frequency a suppression threshold is determined. Interference is isolated for each STFT frequency by removing the interference from samples that are above the suppression threshold by using a filter. Direction of Arrival (DoA) is estimated for each interference spectrogram cell using measurements from all the receiving antennas. Interference samples are clustered using the DoA into epochs of chirps.

Automotive radar with time-frequency-antenna domain threshold interference isolation and localization fusion

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to radar and radar processing. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments involving multi-input multi-output (MIMO) co-prime radar signals transmitted by a plurality of transmitters and reflected from at least one target, the reflected radar signals are processed by resolving ambiguities associated with a range-Doppler detection based on unique pulse repetition frequencies (PRF)s associated with respective chirp groups of the reflected radar signals. Phase compensation is applied to compensate for motion-induced phased biases and, thereafter, Doppler estimates are reconstructed to provide a dealiased version of the reflected radar signals.

Radar communication with disparate pulse repetition frequency groups

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to radar communications with disparate pulse repetition intervals, as may be implemented with radar transmission, receiver and processing circuitry. As may be utilized in accordance with one or more embodiments herein, time division multiplexing (TDM) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar signals are transmitted by transmitting sets of successive radar signals, each set having a pulse repetition interval (PRI) that is different than the PRI of sets of radar signals transmitted in another one of the sets. Positional characteristics of a target may be ascertained based on the PRI used in each of the sets and on phase characteristics of ones of the radar signals reflected from the target.

Radar communications with disparate pulse repetition intervals

A vehicle radar system, apparatus and method use a radar control processing unit to generate a target response signal in at least a first dimension from compressed radar data signals and to perform cell-averaging constant false alarm rate (CA-CFAR) target detection by convolving the target response signal with a weighted kernel window signal in a frequency domain using a Fast Fourier Transform hardware accelerator, an element-wise multiplier, and an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform hardware accelerator to generate an output signal having a sign that indicates a target detection decision.

Automotive radar with hardware accelerated target detection capability

A device for a radar sensor is disclosed, the device comprising: transmission circuitry configured to generate transmission signals with a linear frequency chirp modulation in a predetermined frequency band for output to a radar antenna; reception circuitry configured to receive reflection signals corresponding to reflection of the transmitted radar signals from one or more physical objects; and control circuitry configured to select a frequency range within said predetermined frequency band and/or a timing pattern for said transmission signals; wherein said device is configured to: receive a further signal from a further radar sensor; determine, from said further signal, a frequency range and/or timing pattern in use by said further radar sensor for transmission of further transmission signals; and select a frequency range within said predetermined frequency band and/or a timing pattern for said transmission signals which does not conflict with the frequency range and/or timing pattern of said further transmission signals.

Device for radar sensor, IC for a radar sensor and a radar sensor

A radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided with a transmitter that produces a plurality of distinct FanTOM signals that are transmitted as N RF-encoded transmit signals in an overlapped fashion such that the pulse repetition interval and frame length are kept short; a receiver that processes target return signals reflected from the N RF-encoded transmit signals with a mixer to produce an IF signal which is filtered with one or more notch filters clocked with a sampling clock frequency to control harmonic notch frequencies to suppress transmitter spill-over and close-in self-clutter interference, thereby producing a filtered IF signal that is converted to a digital signal with an analog-to-digital converter that is clocked with the sampling clock frequency; and a radar processor that processes the digital signal to generate a range spectrum comprising N segments that correspond, respectively, to the N RF-encoded transmit signals.

Frequency and time offset modulation (FANTOM) chirp MIMO automotive radar with N-path notch filter

In one example, a radar circuit uses computer processing circuitry for processing data corresponding to reflection signals via a sparse array. Output data indicative of signal magnitude associated with the reflection signals is generated, and then angle-of-arrival information is discerned therefrom by (e.g., iteratively): correlating the output data with at least one spatial frequency support vector indicative of a correlation peak for the output data; generating upper-side and lower-side support vectors which are neighbors along the spatial frequency spectrum for said at least one spatial frequency support vector, and providing, via a correlation of the upper-side and lower-side support vectors and said at least one spatial frequency support vector, at least one new vector that is more refined along the spatial frequency spectrum for said at least one spatial frequency support vector.

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Ryan Haoyun Wu