EP1794613A1 - Radarsystem mit heterodynem mischer zur verbesserten detektion von nahbereichssignalen - Google Patents
Radarsystem mit heterodynem mischer zur verbesserten detektion von nahbereichssignalenInfo
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- EP1794613A1 EP1794613A1 EP05771892A EP05771892A EP1794613A1 EP 1794613 A1 EP1794613 A1 EP 1794613A1 EP 05771892 A EP05771892 A EP 05771892A EP 05771892 A EP05771892 A EP 05771892A EP 1794613 A1 EP1794613 A1 EP 1794613A1
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- antenna
- frequency
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q25/00—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns
- H01Q25/002—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns providing at least two patterns of different beamwidth; Variable beamwidth antennas
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S13/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose nature or wavelength is irrelevant or unspecified
- G01S13/88—Radar or analogous systems specially adapted for specific applications
- G01S13/93—Radar or analogous systems specially adapted for specific applications for anti-collision purposes
- G01S13/931—Radar or analogous systems specially adapted for specific applications for anti-collision purposes of land vehicles
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S7/00—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
- G01S7/02—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S13/00
- G01S7/03—Details of HF subsystems specially adapted therefor, e.g. common to transmitter and receiver
- G01S7/032—Constructional details for solid-state radar subsystems
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
- H01Q21/24—Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q25/00—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns
- H01Q25/001—Crossed polarisation dual antennas
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S13/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose nature or wavelength is irrelevant or unspecified
- G01S13/003—Bistatic radar systems; Multistatic radar systems
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S13/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose nature or wavelength is irrelevant or unspecified
- G01S13/87—Combinations of radar systems, e.g. primary radar and secondary radar
Definitions
- the invention relates to an antenna radar system which can preferably be used in the automotive industry and to a method for its operation according to the preambles of the respective independent claims.
- LRR radar systems are used for remote detection of detection targets.
- Nahradarsystemen SRR
- close range detection for example, to carry out distance measurements in vehicle convoys (automatic starting in traffic jam rides or the like.) Or for use as a parking aid.
- the detection field for short-range applications generally has a much larger aperture angle compared to long-range applications.
- EIRP value due to a smaller so-called EIRP value in short-range applications, these also have a shorter range.
- the said EIRP (Equivalent Isotropy Radiated Power) value represents a purely arithmetic quantity and indicates with which transmission power one would have to supply an antenna uniformly radiating in all spatial directions (isotropically) in order to achieve the same power flux density in the far field as with a focusing directional antenna in your Main transmission direction. For these reasons, it is nearly impossible to provide a common antenna aperture for the LRR and SRR functions.
- antenna radar systems already used outside the automotive industry and optimized for near range detection / detection currently only achieve a minimum measuring distance in the range of 0.5 m. In the above-mentioned driving situations (traffic jams, etc.), however, the smallest possible minimum measuring distance in the range of a few decimeters is desired.
- the invention is therefore based on the object to further develop an antenna radar system of the type described above to the effect that said short-range weakness of the known systems is eliminated.
- this development should be based as far as possible on existing antenna radar systems in order to keep the development and production costs as low as possible.
- the invention proposes, in an antenna radar system concerned in one
- Nahtsch.nnenpfad provide a push-pull mixer, which uses a same or at least very similar intermediate frequency as there known as provided phase-locked loop (PLL).
- PLL phase-locked loop
- the inventively proposed Antennenradarsystem can be by means of
- the push-pull mixer thus suppresses the most present on the LO path amplitude modulation noise, which together with the carrier frequency of
- Transmission signal is automatically mixed in arranged around the intermediate frequency sidebands.
- the carrier frequency itself does not vary in amplitude. Rather, the modulation occurs in the form of signal components with frequencies slightly above and below the carrier frequency, which signal components are commonly referred to as "sidebands".
- the LO of the push-pull mixer is fed with the fourth (4th) harmonic of a reference oscillator; however, instead of using the fourth harmonic, two frequency doublers may also be provided, which has the added advantage that maximum LO power can be maintained for the balanced mixer.
- the antenna radar system according to the invention can be designed for this purpose so that the apertures of the distance and Nah Schlsfunktion are operated cross-polarized, wherein by means of switchable transmitter preamplifier in the transmission path of the remote and Nah Schlsradarfunktion a temporal multiplexing remote / Nahmode is realized. Due to the known antenna characteristic of radar antennas, ie the - A -
- Antenna radar system can be integrated.
- an existing predominantly long-range antenna radar system can be expanded by a high-resolution close-range detection, for example a
- the antenna radar concept according to the invention can be used with the advantages mentioned in addition to monostatic antennas in bistatic antennas, which are known to have separate transmission and reception paths. Already due to this path separation crosstalk of the transmission signal is minimized in the receiver.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a receiver circuit with heterodyne detection according to the prior art
- FIG. 2a legs an overview of the principle occurring in down and up mixers by means of a mixer shown in Figure 1;
- Fig. 3 is an electronic circuit diagram of a preferred embodiment of the erf ⁇ ndungswashen Antennenradarsystems;
- FIG. 5 shows a transmission power mask of a combination LRR-SRR sensor according to the invention.
- the antenna radar systems included here have a phase-locked loop (phase-locked loop) enabling the reception of very short wavelengths, with the associated relatively high spatial resolution.
- PLL ') 70 which is modulated by a digital divider N and which has an integrated voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), which is used to generate a carrier signal.
- VCO voltage controlled oscillator
- the VCO additionally acts as a so-called local oscillator for the mixer 20, for example for the receiver, which down-converts or converts the high-frequency received signal f_E to a lower intermediate frequency f_ZF. This principle of frequency conversion or frequency reduction has been used for many decades in radio receivers.
- the input signal f_E is converted or mixed before the demodulation by means of the mixer 20 to the fixed intermediate frequency f_ZF. Accordingly, on the (not shown here) transmitter side, the modulation is often performed not on the transmission frequency, but also on a smaller intermediate frequency and the resulting
- the necessary beat frequency is also supplied by a VCO covering, for example, the frequency range of 300 to 450 MHz.
- Such a mixer provides grds. a three-port with the inputs for the input frequency f_E and the local oscillator frequency f_LO and with an output for the intermediate frequency f_ZF, wherein the mixing a non- represents a linear process in which at least two of said variables are multiplied together.
- An ideal mixer behaves between the gates, E 'and, ZF' as a matched, lossy two-port, which simply makes a frequency shift in addition.
- the local oscillator signal with the frequency f_LO is supplied, which determines the difference between f_E and f_ZF and is generally much stronger than the other two signals.
- F ZF +/- (f_E - f_LO).
- the input signal at the frequency f_E is higher-frequency than the desired output signal f_ZF.
- f_E is greater or less than f_LO
- the positive or negative sign applies in the above equation.
- FIGS. 2a and 2b The relationship between these three frequencies is shown in FIGS. 2a and 2b.
- Fig. 2a shows the frequencies occurring at a down-converter
- Fig. 2b comprises the frequencies resulting from an up-converter.
- the downward arrows correspond to input signals
- the meaning of the image frequency is that an external signal having the image frequency, at a given local oscillator frequency, is converted (mixed) into the same intermediate frequency f_ZF as the desired input signal of the frequency f_E. Therefore, the image frequency is usually by means of a suitable
- the disturbing "image frequency" f_SP represents a mirror-image (at a distance of the intermediate frequency) from the oscillator frequency and usually undesirable second reception option.
- f_SP f_E - (2 * f_ZF).
- the antenna radar system according to the invention shown in Fig. 3 comprises at the same time a far-range (LRR) function comprised by reference numerals 210-305 and a short-range (SRR) function comprised by reference numerals 310-365 and reference numerals 230 and 237.
- LRR far-range
- SRR short-range
- the LRR function 210-305 and the SRR Function 310 - 365 are synchronously in the present exemplary embodiment, ie not operated in time multiplex operation by means of a changeover switch, multiplexer or the like. It should be noted, however, that the present invention is basically also applicable to such time-division multiplex systems.
- Bias bias 235 powered preamplifier 230 Bias bias 235 powered preamplifier 230.
- VCO voltage-controlled oscillator
- the oscillation signal generated by the VCO (in this case transmitting VCO) 205 is generated by means of a power divider 210, 215 fed to the short-range transmission antenna 237.
- This input signal 200 is fed by means of a preferably capacitive coupling element 310 to a mixer 320 whose input signal in turn comes from a source 340.
- Said fourth harmonic is generated in the present embodiment from the signal supplied by the reference oscillator 340 by means of two series-connected frequency doublers 330, 335.
- the frequency generated at 330, 335 and 340 is applied to a balanced mixer 345-360.
- the exact mode of operation of push-pull mixer 345-360 will be described in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 4a and 4b.
- the frequency dependencies of potential detection targets fall far outside the phase noise of the LO 330, 335 and 340.
- the phase noise is mixed, for example, by reflection at the RX feed 365 in a DC-near frequency range.
- the AM noise of the LO 330, 335 and 340 is mixed directly into the DC-near frequency range by rectification in the mixer.
- VCO VCO, PLL, reference StaLO, etc.
- the far-field antenna (LRR) path 210 - 305 has four unaligned single-diode mixers 270 - 285 for downconverting the signal provided by the VCO 205 here.
- the mixing diodes 270-285 each lie separately in the path of each Tx / Rx feed 290-305.
- the mixing diodes 270-285 functionally correspond to switches which are opened and closed in time with the oscillator 205.
- the Tx signals arrive via a further four patch antennas 290, likewise designed as patch arrays.
- a focusing unit e.g., lens
- the reflected components reach the patch antennas 290-305 via the focusing unit and are mixed into the baseband by means of the mixing diodes 270-285.
- the low-frequency IF signal resulting from the down-conversion by means of the mixing diodes 270-285 is then applied via the patch antennas 290-305 and the
- Mixer diodes 270-285 in turn, the TP 202 - 265, the entire received power converging TP structure supplied - in turn, a second, supplied with a bias voltage 225 preamplifier 220.
- Figures 4a and 4b illustrate the operation of a single-diode mixer ( Figure 4a) and a balanced mixer ( Figure 4b) in direct comparison. Respective corresponding components are provided for convenience with corresponding, above-painted reference numerals.
- a transformer coil 400 or 400 '
- a (mixer) diode 410 is arranged, whereas on the lower leg both a local oscillator (LO) 420 and a LO downstream resistor 430 are arranged.
- LO local oscillator
- a voltage U IF oscillating with the intermediate frequency ZF is dropped across a load resistor RL 440 arranged at the output.
- the oscillator signal U LO periodically controls the diode 410 non-linearly.
- the input signal US sees in the diode 410 a linear, temporally periodically variable network, ie the LO 420
- the balanced mixer has two symmetrically connected (i.e., balanced) diodes 410 ', 415 which are driven in the same direction by an LO 420'.
- the LO 420 'and a resistance 430' associated therewith are arranged on an additional line branch arranged symmetrically (in the middle) with respect to the upper and lower line branches. The resulting isolation between LO 420 'and IF suppresses the LO noise at the IF gate.
- FIG. 4 In the right half of Fig. 4 are shown typical resulting in the two mixers output voltage waveforms.
- the uppermost diagram shows the voltage curves of the predetermined signals U S 470 and U LO 460.
- the upper diagram shows the conventional circuit diagram of a single-diode mixer and the lower diagram shows the circuit diagram of a conventional push-pull mixer.
- FIG. 5 shows a transmission power mask (EIRP over frequency) for the far range with frequencies of 76-77 GHz as well as the near range with frequencies of 79-81 GHz.
- EIRP transmission power mask
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DE102004046632A DE102004046632A1 (de) | 2004-09-25 | 2004-09-25 | Antennenradarsystem mit heterodyner Frequenzumsetzung (Mischung) von Eingangs/Ausgangssignalen |
PCT/EP2005/053816 WO2006032569A1 (de) | 2004-09-25 | 2005-08-03 | Radarsystem mit heterodynem mischer zur verbesserten detektion von nahbereichssignalen |
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