Title
State Observation Using The Phase And The Beat Frequency Of A Fmcw Radar For Precise Local Positioning And Line-Of-Sight Detection
Abstract
The accuracy of an FMCW radar working in a multipath environment is mainly limited by the radar signal bandwidth. Furthermore, the separation and identification of line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals are important and challenging problems in many radar and local positioning applications. In this article, a method is proposed to overcome these restrictions. A state observer is used for an improved fusion of the FMCW radar beat signal frequency and phase. It is shown that the concepts allow for an accuracy improvement of more than one order of magnitude. In addition, the new approach is able to distinguish between NLOS and LOS measurements. The robustness of the system is improved by the implementation of motion type detection algorithms. Practical experiments illustrate that the new technique is superior to standard FMCW radar location methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/VETECF.2008.145
68TH IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, FALL 2008
Keywords
Field
DocType
State Observation, secondary radar, radio navigatio, local positioning
Continuous-wave radar,Pulse-Doppler radar,Low-frequency radar,Radar imaging,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Bistatic radar,Radar lock-on,3D radar,Fire-control radar
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-2252
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephan Max100.34
Christian Bohn231.57
Martin Vossiek37014.35