Technique for compensation of transmit leakage in radar receiver

Abstract

A radar system () radiates a radar transmit signal, has a radar signal receiver () and a canceller () for canceling leakage of the transmit signal into the radar signal receiver (). The canceller () comprises a digital waveform generator () for generating a first digital signal converted to an analog waveform. The analog waveform is amplified after a fixed delay () to generate a first cancellation signal input into a circulator (). The circulator combines the first cancellation signal with the leakage to generate a first corrected signal. A summer () combines the first corrected signal from the circulator with a second cancellation signal to generate a second corrected signal. The second cancellation signal is generated by a digital cancellation filter (). The digital cancellation filter () has as an input the first digital signal from the digital waveform generator (). The digital cancellation filter () is controlled using weight adjustments computed by an adaptive weight processor (). The adaptive weight processor () samples the second corrected signal and computes the weight adjustments to optimize the second cancellation signal.