Radar system mounted on vehicle

Abstract

A radar system mounted on a vehicle is capable of properly measuring an angle even when a linearity is impaired without increasing a scale of hardware and a load on signal processing, and exhibiting a high performance at a low cost. This system is constructed of a transmit-receive shared antenna including a transmitting means for transmitting electromagnetic waves subjected to plural kinds of frequency modulations and a receiving means for receiving the receiving electromagnetic waves reflected by a target object, a signal processor for calculating a relative distance and a relative velocity to the target object and a receiving intensity on the basis of output data from the transmitting means and input data from the receiving means, and calculating a direction of the target object from the receiving intensity, and an antenna scan motor as a scan means, for deflecting a transmitting direction of the transmitting means and a receiving direction of the receiving means on the basis of an output from the signal processor. The signal processor executes an angle measuring process based on a combination of the receiving intensities in respective frequency-modulated phases in the plurality of directions, and uses what averages respective measured angle values as a result of measuring the angle.