Dspace Gmbh

Tim Fisch

Jeffrey Paul

Jonathan Watkins

Albrecht Lohoefener

Bastian Hellweg

Chris Hoffmann

A method and a radar target simulator for generating a simulated radar echo signal. A radar signal is sent with known bandwidth from a radar sensor to be tested. The radar signal is received in the radar target simulator. The radar signal is filtered via a low-pass filter with known filter curve. The frequency spectrum of the filtered radar signal over the full bandwidth of the low-pass filter is determined. A corrected frequency spectrum and the power of a radar signal corresponding to the corrected frequency spectrum are calculated. A scaled radar signal from the filtered radar signal and the radar echo signal as a reflection of the scaled radar signal are calculated. The radar echo signal is sent from a transmitting antenna of the radar target simulator to the radar sensor to be tested.

Method and radar target simulator for generating a simulated radar echo signal

A testing device for testing a distance sensor includes: a receiver for receiving an electromagnetic free-space wave as a receive signal; an analog-to-digital converter configured to, in a simulation mode, convert the receive signal into a sampled signal; a signal-processing unit configured to: delay the sampled signal or a modulated sampled signal to form a delayed sampled signal or a modulated delayed sampled signal; and modulate, upon the sampled signal or upon the delayed sampled signal, a predeterminable Doppler signature as a characteristic motion profile of a reflecting object to be simulated to form the modulated sampled signal or the modulated delayed sample signal; a digital-to-analog converter configured to convert the modulated or the modulated delayed sampled signal into a simulated reflected signal; and a transmitter configured to radiate the simulated reflected signal or a simulated reflected signal derived from the simulated reflected signal as an output signal.

Testing device for testing a distance sensor that operates using electromagnetic waves

A method for calibrating a target simulator for an active environment detection system includes: calibrating a complete signal path comprising a first signal path and a second signal path by determining a first deviation of a first value of at least one signal parameter from a first reference value of the at least one signal parameter; calibrating one of the first signal path and the second signal path by determining a second deviation of a second value of the at least one signal parameter from a second reference value of the at least one signal parameter; and calibrating the other of the first signal path and the second signal path by offsetting of the first deviation with the second deviation.

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Paderborn, Germany

Tim Fisch