KR20160054349A - Radar signal processing method and apparatus for eliminating clutter - Google Patents

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KR20160054349A
KR20160054349A KR1020140153876A KR20140153876A KR20160054349A KR 20160054349 A KR20160054349 A KR 20160054349A KR 1020140153876 A KR1020140153876 A KR 1020140153876A KR 20140153876 A KR20140153876 A KR 20140153876A KR 20160054349 A KR20160054349 A KR 20160054349A
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A radar signal processing apparatus and method for removing clutter are disclosed.
A method of processing a radar signal includes: transmitting a transmit radar signal via a transmit antenna; Receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object; Performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal; Performing zero-Doppler filtering on the converted received radar signal to remove clutter components included in the received radar signal; And determining a distance between the object and the transmitting antenna based on the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a radar signal processing apparatus and a radar signal processing method for removing a clutter,

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing a radar signal for removing a clutter from a received radar signal reflected on an object.

The FMCW (Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave) radar transmits a linear frequency modulated radar signal, receives the reflected signal from the object to be detected by the transmitted radar signal, Distance and speed can be detected.

A conventional radar signal processing apparatus of an FMCW radar can perform a first FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) of a received signal to determine a distance between an object and a radar. The conventional FMCW radar radar signal processing apparatus can perform the second fast Fourier transform of the stored first FFT result for each transmission period of the radar signal to determine the velocity of the object.

A conventional FMCW radar radar signal processing apparatus can detect the distance and speed of multiple targets through two fast Fourier transforms. However, when there is a strong clutter having a large reflected signal in the detection region, the conventional radar signal processing apparatus of the FMCW radar has a problem that an object, which is a week moving target with a small reflected signal, It may be masked by the clutter and may not be accurately detected.

Particularly, when only the distance information of the object is to be detected according to the application field of the radar, the masking effect of the object by the clutter may increase in the radar signal processing device of the conventional FMCW radar.

Accordingly, there is a demand for a method that can prevent masking even when a clutter occurs and accurately measure the distance or moving speed of the moving object.

The present invention can provide an apparatus and method for preventing a moving object to be detected from being masked by removing a clutter contained in a received radar signal using a zero Doppler filter.

A method of processing a radar signal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: transmitting a transmission radar signal through a transmission antenna; Receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object; Performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal; Performing zero-Doppler filtering on the converted received radar signal to remove clutter components included in the received radar signal; And determining a distance between the object and the transmitting antenna based on the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed.

The removing the clutter component of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include removing a clutter component using a Zero Doppler Filter (ZDF) different for each range bin of the transmitted radar signal And may filter the converted received radar signal.

The removing the clutter component of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: extracting the clutter component by processing the converted received radar signal for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal; And removing the clutter component from the transformed received radar signal using information of the extracted clutter component.

The determining of the distance of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: extracting a size of a received radar signal from which a clutter component is removed; And determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna using the size of the reception radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmission radar signal.

A method of processing a radar signal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: transmitting a transmission radar signal through a transmission antenna; Receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object; Performing a first FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal; Zero-Doppler filtering the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal to remove clutter components contained in the received radar signal; Performing a second fast Fourier transform of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed; And determining a moving speed of the object based on the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal.

The removing the clutter component of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include filtering the first FFT transformed received radar signal using a different zero Doppler filter for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal, can do.

The removing the clutter component of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: extracting the clutter component by processing the converted received radar signal for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal; And removing the clutter component from the transformed received radar signal using information of the extracted clutter component.

The method of processing a radar signal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may further include determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna based on a received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed.

The step of determining a moving speed of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: generating a distance-velocity map by extracting a size of a second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal; And determining a moving speed of the object using the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna and the distance-speed map.

The determining of the distance of the radar signal processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: extracting a size of a received radar signal from which a clutter component is removed; And determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna using the size of the reception radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmission radar signal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for processing a radar signal, comprising: a transmitter for transmitting a transmission radar signal through a transmission antenna; A receiving unit for receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object through a receiving antenna; A fast Fourier transform unit for performing a fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal; A clutter removal unit that performs zero-Doppler filtering on the converted received radar signal to remove clutter components included in the received radar signal; And a distance determination unit that determines a distance between the object and the transmission antenna based on the reception radar signal from which the clutter component is removed.

The clutter removing unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention can filter the converted received radar signal using different zero Doppler filters for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.

The clutter removing unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention processes the converted received radar signal according to the distance bin of the transmission radar signal to extract the clutter component and uses the extracted clutter component information And remove the clutter component from the converted received radar signal.

The distance determining unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention extracts the magnitude of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed, The distance between the object and the transmitting antenna can be determined.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for processing a radar signal, comprising: a transmitter for transmitting a transmission radar signal through a transmission antenna; A receiving unit for receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object through a receiving antenna; A first FFT unit for performing a first FFT on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal; CLAIMS 1. A clutter removal system for performing zero Doppler filtering of a first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal to remove clutter components contained in a received radar signal; A second fast Fourier transformer performing a second fast Fourier transform of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed; And a moving speed determiner for determining a moving speed of the object based on the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal.

The clutter removing unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may filter the first FFT-processed received radar signal using different zero Doppler filters for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.

The clutter removing unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention processes the converted received radar signal according to the distance bin of the transmission radar signal to extract the clutter component and uses the extracted clutter component information And remove the clutter component from the converted received radar signal.

The apparatus for processing a radar signal according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a distance determination unit that determines a distance between the object and the transmission antenna based on a reception radar signal from which the clutter component is removed.

The moving speed determining unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention extracts the size of the second fast Fourier transformed receiving radar signal to generate a distance-speed map, and calculates a distance between the object and the transmitting antenna, - The speed of movement of the object can be determined using a speed map.

The distance determination unit of the radar signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention extracts the magnitude of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed, And the transmission antenna.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to prevent the moving object to be detected from being masked by removing the clutter included in the received radar signal using the zero Doppler filter.

1 is a view showing a radar signal processing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing the operation of the radar signal processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating an operation of a zero Doppler filter according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a view showing a radar signal processing apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a view showing the operation of the radar signal processing apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 6 is an example of distance, or moving speed, determined in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a flowchart showing a radar signal processing method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a flowchart showing a radar signal processing method according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The radar signal processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention can be performed by a radar signal processing apparatus.

1 is a view showing a radar signal processing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a radar signal processing apparatus 100 for processing a received radar signal to determine a distance between an object and a transmitting antenna according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1, a radar signal processing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a transmitter 110, a receiver 120, a fast Fourier transformer 130, a clutter removal unit 140, And a determination unit 150 may be included.

The transmission unit 110 can transmit the transmission radar signal through the transmission antenna. Specifically, the transmission unit 110 may transmit a transmission radar signal generated by a frequency modulation continuous wave method. At this time, the transmission radar signal may have a pulse repetition interval (PRI) faster than a predetermined value. For example, if the PRI interval is the interval of each transmission period, the time of the PRI interval * N, which is the time interval for processing the radar signal, may be short enough such that the movement of the moving object is not measured. In addition, since the transmission period of the transmission radar signal is short, the distance bit frequency inversely proportional to the transmission period may be higher than that of the general signal.

The receiving unit 120 can receive the receiving radar signal, in which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by the object through the receiving antenna.

The fast Fourier transformer 130 may perform Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the received radar signal received by the receiving unit 120 for each transmission period of the transmitted radar signal transmitted by the transmitter 110. [

The clutter removing unit 140 may perform zero-Doppler filtering on the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 to remove clutter components included in the received radar signal. At this time, the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed may include only the signal component of the moving object.

Also, the zero Doppler values may be different for each range-bin of the transmission radar signal. Accordingly, the clutter removing unit 140 can filter the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 using different zero Doppler filters for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal. At this time, the distance bin is a basic unit for processing the received radar signal received from an arbitrary azimuth by unit distance, and may be expressed as a range gate. Also, the distance bins may be arranged one by one at a certain distance (bin space) starting from the transmitting antenna.

At this time, the zero Doppler filter processes the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 according to the distance bin of the transmission radar signal, extracts the clutter component, and outputs the clutter component to the fast Fourier transform unit 130 can remove the clutter component from the converted received radar signal.

The specific configuration and operation of the zero Doppler filter will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The distance determining unit 150 may determine a distance between the object and the transmitting antenna based on the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed from the clutter removing unit 140.

At this time, the distance determining unit 150 can determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna by extracting the size of the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed, and using the size of the receiving radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmitting radar signal .

The radar signal processing apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention can prevent the moving object to be detected from being masked by removing the clutter included in the received radar signal using the zero Doppler filter.

2 is a diagram showing the operation of the radar signal processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The transmitter 110 may transmit a transmission radar signal having a short transmission period (PRI) as shown in FIG. Then, the receiving unit 120 can receive the receiving radar signal 200 in which the transmitting radar signal is reflected on the object.

At this time, the receiving unit 120 may convert the received radar signal 200, which is an analog signal, into a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC)

The fast Fourier transformer 130 may perform a fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal converted into a digital signal by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 210 in each of the fast Fourier transformers 220.

In this case, the fast Fourier transform unit 130 should be performed every transmission period included in the time period for processing the radar signal, and the time interval may include N transmission periods. Accordingly, the fast Fourier transform unit 130 may include N fast Fourier transformers 220. [ The received radar signal converted into the digital signal may be input to the fast Fourier transformer 220 by the transmission period.

In addition, the fast Fourier transform unit 130 may perform one fast Fourier transform 220 to perform fast Fourier transform N times.

Next, the clutter removing unit 140 filters the fast Fourier transformed received radar signal 221 with a zero Doppler filter (ZDF) 230 to remove the clutter component contained in the received radar signal have.

Next, the distance determining unit 150 may input the received radar signal from which the clutter component has been removed to the ABS calculator 240. [ At this time, the ABS calculator 240 can perform an absolute value operation on the received received radar signal and extract the magnitude 241 of the received radar signal.

Next, the distance determining unit 150 may input the magnitudes of the received radar signals having the same distance bin among the magnitudes 241 of the received radar signals to one ACC (Accumulator) operator 250. At this time, the ACC calculator 250 can generate a range profile 251 by performing an accumulation operation on the magnitude (241) of the received received radar signal. At this time, the ACC calculator 250 can increase the gain of the received radar signal by performing an accumulation operation on the magnitude (241) of the received received radar signal.

Finally, the distance determiner 150 may determine the distance between the object and the transmit antenna according to the distance profile 251.

3 is a diagram illustrating an operation of a zero Doppler filter according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The zero Doppler filter 300 can be performed for each distance bin as shown in FIG. The zero Doppler filter 300 may include a clutter component extractor 310 and a clutter component extractor 320.

The clutter component extractor 310 can extract the clutter component by processing the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transformer 130. Specifically, the clutter component extracting unit 310 extracts a clutter component by applying a cumulative operation and a division operation to a complex (real & image) output result of the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 have.

The clutter component removing unit 320 can remove the clutter component from the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 using the clutter component information extracted by the clutter component extracting unit 310. [ Specifically, the clutter component removing unit 320 applies a subtraction operation that subtracts the real and imaginary values of the clutter component extracted by the clutter component extracting unit 310 from the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 Whereby the clutter component can be removed from the received radar signal.

4 is a view showing a radar signal processing apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

4 may be a radar signal processing apparatus 100 for processing a received radar signal according to an embodiment of the present invention to determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna and the moving speed of the object. 4, a radar signal processing apparatus 400 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a transmitter 410, a receiver 420, a first FFT unit 430, a clutter removal unit 440, A distance determining unit 450, a second fast Fourier transform unit 460, and a moving speed determining unit 470. [

The transmitting unit 410 can transmit the transmitting radar signal through the transmitting antenna. At this time, the transmitted transmission radar signal may be reflected to an object located within a certain distance from the transmission antenna.

The receiving unit 420 can receive the receiving radar signal whose transmitting radar signal is reflected by the object through the receiving antenna.

The first FFT unit 430 may perform a first FFT process on the received radar signal received by the receiving unit 420 for each transmission period of the transmitted radar signal transmitted from the transmitting unit 410. At this time, the first fast Fourier transform unit 430 may perform distance fast Fourier transform to determine the distance.

The clutter removal unit 440 may perform zero Doppler filtering on the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 430 to remove the clutter component included in the received radar signal. At this time, the clutter removing unit 440 may filter the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 430 using different zero Doppler filters for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.

The distance determining unit 450 can determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna based on the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed from the clutter removing unit 440. At this time, the distance determining unit 450 can determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna by extracting the size of the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed, and using the size of the receiving radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmitting radar signal .

The second fast Fourier transformer 460 can perform the second fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed in the clutter removing unit 440. At this time, the second fast Fourier transform unit 460 may perform Doppler fast Fourier transform to determine the moving speed.

The moving speed determination unit 470 can determine the moving speed of the object based on the second fast Fourier transformed receiving radar signal in the second fast Fourier transform unit 460. [

At this time, the movement speed determiner 470 may extract the size of the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal to generate the distance-speed map. The movement speed determiner 470 can determine the movement speed of the object using the distance-speed map generated and the distance between the object determined by the distance determiner 450 and the transmission antenna.

5 is a view showing the operation of the radar signal processing apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The transmitting unit 410 may transmit a transmitting radar signal having a short transmission period (PRI) as shown in FIG. Then, the receiving unit 420 can receive the receiving radar signal 500 in which the transmitting radar signal is reflected on the object.

At this time, the receiver 420 can convert the received radar signal 500, which is an analog signal, into a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 510.

The first fast Fourier transformer 430 can perform fast Fourier transform on each of the first fast Fourier transformers 520 by inputting the received radar signal converted into the digital signal by the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 510 . In this case, the first fast Fourier transformer 520 may be a fast Fourier transformer performing distance fast Fourier transform to determine the distance. In addition, the first FFT unit 430 may be performed every transmission period included in a time period for processing a radar signal, and the time interval may include N transmission periods. Accordingly, the first fast Fourier transformer 430 may include N fast Fourier transformers 520. In addition, the first fast Fourier transform unit 430 may perform the first fast Fourier transform N times by sharing one first fast Fourier transformer 520. [

Then, the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal 521

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May be the n th transmission period information of the m th distance index. In this case, m may represent a distance-frequency index by the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal 521 from 0 to M-1. And, n can represent a Doppler-frequency index from 0 to N-1.

The clutter removal unit 440 may then filter the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal 521 with a zero Doppler filter (ZDF) 530 to remove the clutter component contained in the received radar signal.

The second fast Fourier transform unit 460 may then perform a second fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal from which the clutter component has been removed using the second fast Fourier transformers 540. [ At this time, the second fast Fourier transformer 540 may perform a Doppler fast Fourier transform to determine the moving speed.

In addition, the second fast Fourier transformer 540 may perform a fast Fourier transform to detect a phase change of an object determined to be the same distance in the distance determining unit 450. [ That is, the second fast Fourier transformer 540 can perform fast Fourier transform on components having the same distance from the received radar signal. The second fast Fourier transform unit 460 may include M second fast Fourier transformers 540 since the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal 521 may have M distance values. Also, the second fast Fourier transform unit 460 may perform the second fast Fourier transform M times by sharing one second fast Fourier transform unit 540.

Finally, the movement speed determiner 470 may input the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal to the ABS calculator 550. [ At this time, the ABS calculator 550 can perform an absolute value operation on the received received radar signal and extract the magnitude of the received received radar signal. The movement speed determiner 470 may generate the distance-speed map 551 according to the magnitude of the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal.

The moving speed determining unit 470 can determine the moving speed of the object by applying the distance between the object determined by the distance determining unit 450 and the transmitting antenna to the generated distance-speed map.

Figure 6 is an example of distance, or moving speed, determined in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

6 shows an example in which the radar signal processing apparatus determines the distance or the moving speed of the moving object when there is one stationary object generating clutter and one moving object to be detected.

The distance detection result 610 and the distance detection result 630 are examples of determining the distance of the moving object using the conventional radar signal processing device. At this time, as shown in FIG. 6, the distance detection result 610 may appear to be much lower than the stationary object in which the signal size of the moving object is represented by clutter. On the other hand, the distance detection result 620, which is the result of detecting the same objects as the distance detection result 610 by the radar signal processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention, Only objects can appear.

In addition, the moving speed detection result 615 corresponding to the distance detection result 610 may vary in moving speed depending on the stationary object as shown in FIG. On the other hand, since only the moving object is detected in the moving speed detection result 625 corresponding to the distance detection result 620, the speed of the moving object can be accurately displayed as shown in FIG.

In addition, the distance detection result 630 may not be distinguishable because the signal size of the moving object is too low as shown in FIG. On the other hand, the distance detection result 640, which is a result of detecting the same objects as the distance detection result 620 by the radar signal processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention, is different from the distance detection result 630, Moving objects may appear.

In addition, the moving speed detection result 635 corresponding to the distance detection result 630 may appear to have little moving speed due to the stationary object as shown in FIG. On the other hand, since only the moving object is detected in the moving speed detection result 645 corresponding to the distance detection result 640, the speed of the moving object can be accurately displayed as shown in FIG.

7 is a flowchart showing a radar signal processing method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

In step 710, the transmitting unit 110 may transmit a transmitting radar signal through a transmitting antenna. At this time, the transmitted transmission radar signal can be reflected by the object.

In step 720, the receiving unit 120 may receive the receiving radar signal reflected by the object in step 710 via the receiving antenna.

In step 730, the fast Fourier transform unit 130 performs fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal received in step 720 for each transmission period of the transmitted radar signal.

At step 740, the clutter removal unit 140 may perform zero Doppler filtering of the received radar signal converted at step 730 to remove the clutter component contained in the received radar signal. At this time, the clutter removing unit 140 may filter the received radar signals converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 130 using different zero Doppler filters for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.

In step 750, the distance determining unit 150 may determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna based on the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed in step 740. At this time, the distance determining unit 150 can determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna by extracting the size of the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed, and using the size of the receiving radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmitting radar signal .

8 is a flowchart showing a radar signal processing method according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

In step 810, the transmitter 410 may transmit a transmit radar signal via a transmit antenna. At this time, the transmitted transmission radar signal may be reflected to an object located within a certain distance from the transmission antenna.

In step 820, the receiving unit 420 may receive the receiving radar signal reflected by the object in step 810 via the receiving antenna.

In step 830, the first FFT unit 430 may perform the first FFT on the received radar signal received in step 820 for each transmission period of the transmitted radar signal. At this time, the first fast Fourier transform unit 430 may perform distance fast Fourier transform to determine the distance.

In operation 840, the clutter removing unit 440 performs zero Doppler filtering on the received radar signal converted in operation 830 to remove the clutter component included in the received radar signal. At this time, the clutter removing unit 440 may filter the received radar signal converted by the fast Fourier transform unit 430 using different zero Doppler filters for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.

In step 850, the distance determining unit 450 may determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna based on the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed in step 840. At this time, the distance determining unit 450 can determine the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna by extracting the size of the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed, and using the size of the receiving radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmitting radar signal .

In step 860, the second fast Fourier transform unit 460 performs a second fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal from which the clutter component has been removed in step 840. At this time, the second fast Fourier transform unit 460 may perform Doppler fast Fourier transform to determine the moving speed.

In step 870, the moving speed determination unit 470 can determine the moving speed of the object based on the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal in step 860. At this time, the movement speed determiner 470 can extract the size of the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal in step 820 to generate the distance-velocity map. The moving speed determining unit 470 can determine the moving speed of the object using the distance-speed map generated and the distance between the object determined in step 850 and the transmitting antenna.

The present invention can prevent the moving object to be detected from being masked by removing the clutter contained in the received radar signal using the zero Doppler filter.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

100: radar signal processing device
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Transmitting a transmit radar signal via a transmit antenna;
Receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object;
Performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal;
Performing zero-Doppler filtering on the converted received radar signal to remove clutter components included in the received radar signal; And
Determining a distance between the object and the transmit antenna based on the received radar signal from which the clutter component has been removed
The radar signal processing method comprising:
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein removing the clutter component comprises:
And filtering the transformed received radar signal by using a Zero Doppler Filter (ZDF) that is different for each range-bin of the transmitted radar signal.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein removing the clutter component comprises:
Processing the transformed received radar signal by a distance bin of the transmitted radar signal to extract the clutter component; And
Removing the clutter component from the transformed received radar signal using information of the extracted clutter component
The radar signal processing method comprising:
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the determining the distance comprises:
Extracting a size of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed; And
Determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna using the size of the reception radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmission radar signal;
The radar signal processing method comprising:
Transmitting a transmit radar signal via a transmit antenna;
Receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object;
Performing a first FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal;
Zero-Doppler filtering the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal to remove clutter components contained in the received radar signal;
Performing a second fast Fourier transform of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed; And
Determining a moving speed of the object based on the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal
The radar signal processing method comprising:
6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein removing the clutter component comprises:
And filtering the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal using a different zero Doppler filter for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.
6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein removing the clutter component comprises:
Processing the transformed received radar signal by a distance bin of the transmitted radar signal to extract the clutter component; And
Removing the clutter component from the transformed received radar signal using information of the extracted clutter component
The radar signal processing method comprising:
6. The method of claim 5,
Determining a distance between the object and the transmit antenna based on the received radar signal from which the clutter component has been removed
And a radar signal processing method.
9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the determining the moving speed comprises:
Extracting a magnitude of the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal to generate a distance-velocity map; And
Determining a moving speed of the object using the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna and the distance-velocity map,
The radar signal processing method comprising:
9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the determining the distance comprises:
Extracting a size of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed; And
Determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna using the size of the reception radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmission radar signal;
The radar signal processing method comprising:
A transmitter for transmitting a transmission radar signal through a transmission antenna;
A receiving unit for receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object through a receiving antenna;
A fast Fourier transform unit for performing a fast Fourier transform on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal;
A clutter removal unit that performs zero-Doppler filtering on the converted received radar signal to remove clutter components included in the received radar signal; And
A distance determination unit for determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna based on the reception radar signal from which the clutter component is removed;
And a radar signal processing unit.
12. The method of claim 11,
The clutter removing unit includes:
And filters the transformed received radar signal by using a different zero Doppler filter for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.
12. The method of claim 11,
The clutter removing unit includes:
A radar signal processing unit for processing the transformed received radar signal according to the distance bin of the transmission radar signal to extract the clutter component and removing the clutter component from the converted received radar signal using the extracted clutter component information, Processing device.
12. The method of claim 11,
The distance determination unit may determine,
Wherein the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna is determined by extracting the size of the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed and using the size of the receiving radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmitting radar signal.
A transmitter for transmitting a transmission radar signal through a transmission antenna;
A receiving unit for receiving a receiving radar signal through which the transmitting radar signal is reflected by an object through a receiving antenna;
A first FFT unit for performing a first FFT on the received radar signal according to a transmission period of the transmission radar signal,
A first Fourier transformed first radar signal is subjected to zero Doppler filtering to remove a clutter component included in the received radar signal;
A second fast Fourier transformer performing a second fast Fourier transform of the received radar signal from which the clutter component is removed; And
A moving speed determining unit for determining a moving speed of the object based on the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal,
And a radar signal processing unit.
16. The method of claim 15,
The clutter removing unit includes:
And filters the first fast Fourier transformed received radar signal using a different zero Doppler filter for each distance bin of the transmitted radar signal.
16. The method of claim 15,
The clutter removing unit includes:
A radar signal processing unit for processing the transformed received radar signal according to the distance bin of the transmission radar signal to extract the clutter component and removing the clutter component from the converted received radar signal using the extracted clutter component information, Processing device.
16. The method of claim 15,
A distance determination unit for determining a distance between the object and the transmission antenna based on the reception radar signal from which the clutter component is removed,
Wherein the radar signal processing device further comprises:
19. The method of claim 18,
The moving speed determining unit may determine,
A radar signal processing unit for generating a distance-velocity map by extracting the size of the second fast Fourier transformed received radar signal and determining a moving speed of the object using the distance between the object and the transmission antenna and the distance- Device.
19. The method of claim 18,
The distance determination unit may determine,
Wherein the distance between the object and the transmitting antenna is determined by extracting the size of the receiving radar signal from which the clutter component is removed and using the size of the receiving radar signal extracted for each distance bin of the transmitting radar signal.
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