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- the present disclosure relates to a radar device, a signal processor, a signal processing method, and a mobile object.
- a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar device is employed as a vehicle-mounted radar device in some cases.
- the ranging performed by the FMCW radar device is as follows.
- a chirp signal in which frequency linearly increases or decreases with time is emitted as a transmission signal from a transmitting antenna, and an echo signal reflected back from a target is caught by a receiving antenna.
- a local signal chirped at the same frequency as the transmission signal and the echo signal are multiplied by each other in a mixer and are subjected to direct conversion reception.
- the frequency of the local signal varies during the round trip time until the transmitted signal is reflected back from the target, so a beat signal of the frequency proportional to the distance to the target occurs.
- Patent Literature 1 JP H5-235643A
- the present disclosure provides a novel and improved radar device, signal processor, signal processing method, and mobile object, capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device.
- a radar device including: an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal; a transmitting antenna configured to emit a transmission signal based on the local signal; a receiving antenna configured to receive a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target; a mixer configured to multiply the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and a first shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.
- a signal processor including: an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal; a mixer configured to multiply a reflected wave in which a transmission signal based on the local signal is reflected from a target and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and a shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.
- a signal processing method including: oscillating, by an oscillator, a local signal; emitting a transmission signal based on the local signal from a transmitting antenna; receiving, by a receiving antenna, a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target; multiplying, by a mixer, the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and shifting, by a shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer, a phase of the local signal.
- a mobile object including the radar device described above.
- a novel and improved radar device, signal processor, signal processing method, and mobile object capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrated to describe a configuration example of an FMCW radar device.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a frequency of a transmission signal, a frequency of an echo signal, and a frequency of a beat signal, which vary with time.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrated to describe influence caused by a local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrated to describe a first configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrated to describe a beat signal derived from a transmission signal and a beat signal derived from a local feedthrough, in a first-time chirp and a second-time chirp.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrated to describe a second configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the present embodiment.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrated to describe a third configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the present embodiment.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a vehicle on which the FMCW radar device is mounted.
- an FMCW radar device is employed as a vehicle-mounted radar device in some cases.
- the ranging performed by the FMCW radar device is as follows.
- a chirp signal in which frequency linearly increases or decreases with time is emitted as a transmission signal from a transmitting antenna, and an echo signal reflected back from a target is caught by a receiving antenna.
- a local signal chirped at the same frequency as the transmission signal and the echo signal are multiplied by each other in a mixer and are subjected to direct conversion reception.
- the frequency of the local signal varies during the round trip time until the transmitted signal is reflected back from the target, so a beat signal of the frequency proportional to the distance to the target occurs.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrated to describe a configuration example of the FMCW radar device.
- a local oscillator outputs a local signal on the basis of a chirp control signal sent from an FMCW radar signal processor.
- the local signal output from the local oscillator is amplified by a power amplifier and then is emitted as a transmission signal from a transmitting antenna.
- the transmission signal is reflected from a target.
- the receiving antenna receives an echo signal reflected back from the target.
- the echo signal received by the receiving antenna is multiplied by the local signal in the mixer to produce a beat signal.
- the beat signal is sent to the FMCW radar signal processor and is used for ranging the distance to the target.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a frequency of a transmission signal, a frequency of an echo signal, and a frequency of a beat signal, which vary with time.
- the frequency of the transmission signal increases linearly with time from f 0 to f 0 +BW.
- the echo signal linearly increases with time from f 0 to f 0 +BW with a delay of a round trip time ⁇ until the transmission signal is reflected back from the target.
- the frequency f B of the beat signal is proportional to the round trip time ⁇ until the transmission signal is reflected back from the target.
- the FMCW radar device is capable of recognizing the distance to the target by getting to know the frequency f B of the beat signal.
- the transmission signal emitted from the transmitting antenna and the local feedthrough leaked from the receiving antenna are both chirp signals.
- the elimination using AC coupling or a high-pass filter fails to be achieved.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrated to describe the influence caused by local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device.
- the transmission signal emitted from the transmitting antenna is reflected from the target and becomes an echo signal 1 .
- the local feedthrough leaked from the receiving antenna is reflected from the target and becomes an echo signal 2 .
- the respective echo signals received by the receiving antenna are multiplied by the local signal in the mixer to produce beat signals 1 and 2 . These two beat signals fail to be separated because they have the same frequency, and the beat signal 2 caused by the local feedthrough fail to be eliminated using AC coupling or a high-pass filter.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrated to describe a first configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
- the first configuration example of the FMCW radar device is now described with reference to FIG. 4 .
- the FMCW radar device 100 includes an FMCW radar signal processor 110 , a signal processing unit 120 , a transmitting antenna 130 , and a receiving antenna 140 .
- the FMCW radar signal processor 110 controls the operation of the signal processing unit 120 and also calculates the distance between the FMCW radar device 100 and a target 10 .
- the FMCW radar signal processor 110 includes a beat signal memory 111 .
- the beat signal memory 111 temporarily stores a beat signal used to calculate the distance between the FMCW radar device 100 and the target 10 .
- the signal processing unit 120 includes a local oscillator 121 , a power amplifier 122 , a phase shifter 123 , and a mixer 124 .
- the local oscillator 121 generates a local signal whose frequency varies with time (chirped) on the basis of a chirp control signal from the FMCW radar signal processor 110 .
- the local oscillator 121 outputs the generated local signal to the power amplifier 122 and the phase shifter 123 .
- the power amplifier 122 amplifies the local signal generated by the local oscillator 121 .
- the local signal amplified by the power amplifier 122 is sent to the transmitting antenna 130 and is transmitted as a transmission signal from the transmitting antenna 130 .
- the phase shifter 123 shifts the phase of the local signal generated by the local oscillator 121 by a predetermined amount.
- the phase shifter 123 shifts the local signal by a shift amount based on a phase control signal that is output from the FMCW radar signal processor 110 .
- the present embodiment acquires twice the beat signal to eliminate the influence based on the local feedthrough.
- the phase shifter 123 shifts the phase of the local signal by 0 degrees (i.e., no change in phase) on the basis of the phase control signal.
- the phase shifter 123 shifts the phase of the local signal by 180 degrees (i.e., a change in phase opposite to the phase in the first-time acquisition) on the basis of the phase control signal.
- the mixer 124 multiplies the output of the phase shifter 123 by an echo signal received by the receiving antenna 140 .
- the mixer 124 when multiplying the two signals by each other, outputs the resultant multiplied signal (beat signal) to the FMCW radar signal processor 110 .
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrated to describe the beat signal derived from the transmission signal and the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough, in the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp.
- the beat signals generated twice are stored in the beat signal memory 111 . Then, the second-time beat signal is subtracted from the first-time beat signal.
- the phases of the beat signals derived from the transmission signal differ by 180 degrees between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp by the phase shifter 123 , so the beat signals are added by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal.
- the phases of the beat signals derived from the local feedthrough are the same between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp, so the beat signals are cancelled by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal.
- phase shifter 123 that shifts the local signal makes it possible for the FMCW radar device 100 according to the present embodiment to eliminate the influence based on the local feedthrough. Details thereof will be described later.
- the transmitting antenna 130 transmits the local signal amplified by the power amplifier 122 in a predetermined direction as a transmission signal.
- the receiving antenna 140 receives an echo signal in which the transmission signal transmitted from the transmitting antenna 130 is reflected back from the target 10 .
- the echo signal received by the receiving antenna 140 is sent to the mixer 124 described above.
- the first configuration example of the FMCW radar device is described above with reference to FIG. 4 .
- the operation of the FMCW radar device illustrated in FIG. 4 is now described.
- the frequency of the transmission signal increases linearly with time from f 0 to f 0 +BW by the chirp as expressed in Formula (1) below. Moreover, although this example illustrates that the frequency of the transmission signal increases linearly with time, the frequency can decrease linearly with time. In addition, the frequency of the transmission signal can increase or decrease with time in a form other than linear.
- the phase of the transmission signal is obtained by time integrating the frequency, so it becomes a quadratic function of the time t as expressed in Formula (2) below.
- phase of the echo signal is delayed by the time ⁇ when it takes the transmission signal to reciprocate the distance to the target, so resulting in Formula (3) below.
- the beat signal in the first-time chirp is first obtained.
- the shift amount by the phase shifter 123 is set to 0 degrees in the first-time chirp, so the phase has the same phase as the transmission signal, as expressed in Formula (4) below.
- ⁇ 2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted.
- the beat signal in the first-time chirp is as expressed in Formula (6) below.
- the beat signal in the second-time chirp is then obtained.
- the shift amount by the phase shifter 123 is set to 180 degrees in the second-time chirp, so the phase becomes a phase obtained by adding ⁇ to Formula (4), as expressed in Formula (7) below.
- the mixer 124 multiplies the local signal by the echo signal, the phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal becomes the phase of the beat signal as expressed in Formula (8).
- ⁇ 2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted, which is similar to Formula (5).
- the beat signal in the second-time chirp is as expressed in Formula (9) below.
- the second-time beat signal is subtracted from the first-time beat signal obtained in this way, resulting in Formula (10).
- the beat signal in the first-time chirp is first obtained.
- the shift amount by the phase shifter 123 is set to 0 degrees in the first-time chirp, so the phase has the same phase as the transmission signal, as expressed in Formula (11) below.
- the local feedthrough is the leakage of the local signal input to the mixer 124 , so the phase of the local feedthrough is the same as the phase of the local signal.
- the phase of the echo signal derived from the local feedthrough is delayed by the time ⁇ of reciprocating the distance to the target, so resulting in Formula (12) below.
- the phase of the beat signal is expressed by Formula (13) by allowing the mixer 124 to output the phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal.
- ⁇ 2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted.
- the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough in the first-time chirp is expressed in Formula (14) below.
- the beat signal in the second-time chirp is then obtained.
- the shift amount by the phase shifter 123 is set to 180 degrees in the second-time chirp, so the phase becomes a phase obtained by adding ⁇ to Formula (11), as expressed in Formula (15) below.
- the phase of the echo signal derived from the local feedthrough is delayed by the time ⁇ of reciprocating the distance to the target, so resulting in Formula (16) below.
- the phase of the beat signal is expressed by Formula (17) by allowing the mixer 124 to output the phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal.
- ⁇ 2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted, which is similar to Formula (13).
- the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough in the second-time chirp is as expressed in Formula (18) below.
- the beat signals caused by the local feedthrough are canceled in subtracting the beat signal caused by the second-time local feedthrough from the beat signal caused by the first-time local feedthrough when the phase is shifted by 180 degrees by the phase shifter.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrated to describe the second configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
- the second configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated in FIG. 6 differs from the first configuration example illustrated in FIG. 4 in that two phase shifters are provided.
- a phase shifter 123 a shifts the phase of the local signal generated by the local oscillator 121 by a predetermined amount, which is similar to the first configuration example illustrated in FIG. 4 .
- the phase shifter 123 a shifts the local signal by the shift amount based on the phase control signal that is output from the FMCW radar signal processor 110 .
- the phase shifter 123 a shifts the phase by 0 degrees or 180 degrees on the basis of the phase control signal.
- the output from the phase shifter 123 a is sent to the mixer 124 and a phase shifter 123 b.
- the shift amounts twice by the phase shifters 123 a and 123 b are set so that the phases are the same as the local signal generated by the local oscillator 121 .
- the shift amounts by the phase shifters 123 a and 123 b are set so that the beat signal derived from the transmission signal is different in phase by 180 degrees between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp, as in the first configuration example.
- the beat signal derived from the transmission signal is made to be different in phase by 180 degrees between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp by the phase shifter 123 a , as in the first configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated in FIG. 4 .
- the signals are added by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal.
- the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough is identical in phase between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp, so it is canceled by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal.
- phase shifter 123 that shifts the local signal makes it possible for the FMCW radar device 100 according to the present embodiment to eliminate the influence based on the local feedthrough.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrated to describe a third configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
- the third configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated in FIG. 7 differs from the first configuration example illustrated in FIG. 4 in that a transmission signal multiplier 126 a and a local signal multiplier 126 b are provided.
- the shift amount by a phase shifter 125 is determined on the basis of the multiplication amounts of the transmission signal multiplier 126 a and the local signal multiplier 126 b.
- the transmission signal multiplier 126 a multiplies the frequency of the local signal output from the local oscillator 121 by N times.
- the local signal multiplier 126 b multiplies the frequency of the local signal whose phase is shifted by the phase shifter 125 by N times.
- the phase shifter 125 shifts the phase of the local signal output from the local oscillator 121 by the shift amount based on the phase control signal output from the FMCW radar signal processor 110 . In the example illustrated in FIG. 7 , the phase shifter 125 shifts the phase of the local signal output from the local oscillator 121 by 0 degrees or X degrees.
- the shift amount X by the phase shifter 125 and the multiplication amount N by the transmission signal multiplier 126 a and the local signal multiplier 126 b are assumed to have the following relationship.
- the shift amount X by the phase shifter 125 is set to a value that becomes 180 when it is multiplied by N times and is wrapped at 360.
- the transmission signal multiplier 126 a provided as described above makes it possible for the transmission signal to increase in frequency and to be transmitted even when the local oscillator 121 fails to oscillate at a high frequency.
- the FMCW radar device 100 illustrated in FIG. 7 provided with the local signal multiplier 126 b makes it possible to make the phase of the local signal different by 180 degrees between two chirps, which is similar to the first configuration example and the second configuration example described above. Then, the FMCW radar device 100 illustrated in FIG. 7 cancels the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal.
- the FMCW radar device 100 is capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough, so it is applicable to a radar device of a system supporting safe driving of a car, which is necessary to perform ranging with high accuracy.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a vehicle 2 on which FMCW radar devices 100 a to 100 f are mounted.
- the FMCW radar devices 100 a to 100 f illustrated in FIG. 8 are assumed to be any of the FMCW radar devices 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure described above.
- the FMCW radar devices 100 a to 100 f are any of radar devices for short-range, medium-range, and long-range, and are used for detecting objects or the like around the vehicle 2 .
- the FMCW radar device 100 is applicable as a radar device of a system supporting safe driving of a vehicle, so it is possible to contribute to higher performance of the system described above.
- an FMCW radar device capable of eliminating the influence of the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough and performing ranging with high accuracy.
- the shift amount by the phase shifter is set to 180 degrees in the embodiment described above, the present technology is not limited to such example.
- the shift amount by the phase shifter is not necessarily set to exactly 180 degrees, but in one example, the shift amount by the phase shifter can fall within the range of 180 degrees ⁇ 22.5 degrees, in which 22.5 degrees is an angle corresponding to ⁇ /8, and cos ( ⁇ /8) is approximately 0.93.
- the subtraction for the beat signals obtained by a chirp two times makes it possible for the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough to be suppressed to 10% or less. Thus, it is possible to reduce significantly the influence of the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough without exactly setting the shift amount by the phase shifter to 180 degrees.
- present technology may also be configured as below.
- a radar device including:
- the radar device including:
- the radar device according to any of (1) to (10), further including:
- a signal processor including:
- a signal processing method including:
- a mobile object including:
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- This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/306,050 filed on Nov. 30, 2018, which is a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371 and claims the benefit of PCT Application No. PCT/JP2017/019628 having an international filing date of May 25, 2017, which designated the United States, which PCT application claimed the benefit of Japanese Patent Application No. 2016-141648 filed Jul. 19, 2016, the entire disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- The present disclosure relates to a radar device, a signal processor, a signal processing method, and a mobile object.
- A frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar device is employed as a vehicle-mounted radar device in some cases. The ranging performed by the FMCW radar device is as follows. A chirp signal in which frequency linearly increases or decreases with time is emitted as a transmission signal from a transmitting antenna, and an echo signal reflected back from a target is caught by a receiving antenna. Then, a local signal chirped at the same frequency as the transmission signal and the echo signal are multiplied by each other in a mixer and are subjected to direct conversion reception. Then, at the time of direct conversion reception, the frequency of the local signal varies during the round trip time until the transmitted signal is reflected back from the target, so a beat signal of the frequency proportional to the distance to the target occurs.
- It is known that the direct conversion reception causes occurrence of a DC component based on a local feedthrough where the local signal leaks from the receiving antenna due to incomplete isolation between LO (local) and RF of a mixer. Thus, in one example, there is a technique for eliminating the DC component based on the local feedthrough, as disclosed in
Patent Literature 1. - Patent Literature 1: JP H5-235643A
- However, in the case of the FMCW radar device, both the transmission signal and the local feedthrough are chirp signals, so it is difficult to apply the technique for eliminating the DC component as disclosed in
Patent Literature 1. - In view of this, the present disclosure provides a novel and improved radar device, signal processor, signal processing method, and mobile object, capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device.
- According to the present disclosure, there is provided a radar device including: an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal; a transmitting antenna configured to emit a transmission signal based on the local signal; a receiving antenna configured to receive a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target; a mixer configured to multiply the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and a first shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.
- In addition, according to the present disclosure, there is provided a signal processor including: an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal; a mixer configured to multiply a reflected wave in which a transmission signal based on the local signal is reflected from a target and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and a shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.
- In addition, according to the present disclosure, there is provided a signal processing method including: oscillating, by an oscillator, a local signal; emitting a transmission signal based on the local signal from a transmitting antenna; receiving, by a receiving antenna, a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target; multiplying, by a mixer, the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and shifting, by a shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer, a phase of the local signal.
- Further, according to the present disclosure, there is provided a mobile object including the radar device described above.
- According to the present disclosure as described above, there is provided a novel and improved radar device, signal processor, signal processing method, and mobile object, capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device.
- Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
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FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrated to describe a configuration example of an FMCW radar device. -
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a frequency of a transmission signal, a frequency of an echo signal, and a frequency of a beat signal, which vary with time. -
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrated to describe influence caused by a local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device. -
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrated to describe a first configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. -
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrated to describe a beat signal derived from a transmission signal and a beat signal derived from a local feedthrough, in a first-time chirp and a second-time chirp. -
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrated to describe a second configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the present embodiment. -
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrated to describe a third configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the present embodiment. -
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a vehicle on which the FMCW radar device is mounted. - Hereinafter, (a) preferred embodiment(s) of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the appended drawings. Note that, in this specification and the appended drawings, structural elements that have substantially the same function and structure are denoted with the same reference numerals, and repeated explanation of these structural elements is omitted.
- Moreover, the description will be given in the following order.
- 1. Embodiment of present disclosure
- 1.1. Overview
- 1.2. Configuration example
- 1.2.1. First configuration example
- 1.2.2. Second configuration example
- 1.2.3. Third configuration example
- 1.3. Application example
- 2. Concluding remarks
- An overview of an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described and then the embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail.
- As described above, an FMCW radar device is employed as a vehicle-mounted radar device in some cases. The ranging performed by the FMCW radar device is as follows. A chirp signal in which frequency linearly increases or decreases with time is emitted as a transmission signal from a transmitting antenna, and an echo signal reflected back from a target is caught by a receiving antenna. Then, a local signal chirped at the same frequency as the transmission signal and the echo signal are multiplied by each other in a mixer and are subjected to direct conversion reception. Then, at the time of direct conversion reception, the frequency of the local signal varies during the round trip time until the transmitted signal is reflected back from the target, so a beat signal of the frequency proportional to the distance to the target occurs.
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FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrated to describe a configuration example of the FMCW radar device. In the FMCW radar device illustrated inFIG. 1 , a local oscillator outputs a local signal on the basis of a chirp control signal sent from an FMCW radar signal processor. The local signal output from the local oscillator is amplified by a power amplifier and then is emitted as a transmission signal from a transmitting antenna. - The transmission signal is reflected from a target. The receiving antenna receives an echo signal reflected back from the target. The echo signal received by the receiving antenna is multiplied by the local signal in the mixer to produce a beat signal. The beat signal is sent to the FMCW radar signal processor and is used for ranging the distance to the target.
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FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of a frequency of a transmission signal, a frequency of an echo signal, and a frequency of a beat signal, which vary with time. The frequency of the transmission signal increases linearly with time from f0 to f0+BW. The echo signal linearly increases with time from f0 to f0+BW with a delay of a round trip time τ until the transmission signal is reflected back from the target. The frequency fB of the beat signal is proportional to the round trip time τ until the transmission signal is reflected back from the target. Thus, the FMCW radar device is capable of recognizing the distance to the target by getting to know the frequency fB of the beat signal. - It is generally known that the direct conversion reception causes a local feedthrough where the local signal leaks from the receiving antenna due to incomplete isolation between LO (local) and RF. In addition, it is known that, when the frequency of the local signal does not vary with time, the local feedthrough returns to the receiving antenna and the local feedthrough is multiplied by the local signal in the mixer, resulting in a DC component. Thus, in one example, as disclosed in
Patent Literature 1, there is a technique of eliminating the DC component based on the local feedthrough using AC coupling (serial capacitors) or a high-pass filter. - However, in the case of the FMCW radar device, the transmission signal emitted from the transmitting antenna and the local feedthrough leaked from the receiving antenna are both chirp signals. Thus, the elimination using AC coupling or a high-pass filter fails to be achieved.
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FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrated to describe the influence caused by local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device. The transmission signal emitted from the transmitting antenna is reflected from the target and becomes anecho signal 1. On the other hand, the local feedthrough leaked from the receiving antenna is reflected from the target and becomes anecho signal 2. The respective echo signals received by the receiving antenna are multiplied by the local signal in the mixer to producebeat signals beat signal 2 caused by the local feedthrough fail to be eliminated using AC coupling or a high-pass filter. - Thus, in view of the above-mentioned points, those who conceived the present disclosure have conducted intensive studies on the technology capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device. Accordingly, those who conceived the present disclosure have devised the technology capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device by using a phase shifter as described below.
- The overview of the embodiment of the present disclosure is described above. The embodiment of the present disclosure is now described in detail.
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FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrated to describe a first configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure. The first configuration example of the FMCW radar device is now described with reference toFIG. 4 . - As illustrated in
FIG. 4 , theFMCW radar device 100 includes an FMCWradar signal processor 110, asignal processing unit 120, a transmittingantenna 130, and a receivingantenna 140. - The FMCW
radar signal processor 110 controls the operation of thesignal processing unit 120 and also calculates the distance between theFMCW radar device 100 and atarget 10. The FMCWradar signal processor 110 includes abeat signal memory 111. Thebeat signal memory 111 temporarily stores a beat signal used to calculate the distance between theFMCW radar device 100 and thetarget 10. - The
signal processing unit 120 includes alocal oscillator 121, apower amplifier 122, aphase shifter 123, and amixer 124. - The
local oscillator 121 generates a local signal whose frequency varies with time (chirped) on the basis of a chirp control signal from the FMCWradar signal processor 110. Thelocal oscillator 121 outputs the generated local signal to thepower amplifier 122 and thephase shifter 123. - The
power amplifier 122 amplifies the local signal generated by thelocal oscillator 121. The local signal amplified by thepower amplifier 122 is sent to the transmittingantenna 130 and is transmitted as a transmission signal from the transmittingantenna 130. - The
phase shifter 123 shifts the phase of the local signal generated by thelocal oscillator 121 by a predetermined amount. Thephase shifter 123 shifts the local signal by a shift amount based on a phase control signal that is output from the FMCWradar signal processor 110. - The present embodiment acquires twice the beat signal to eliminate the influence based on the local feedthrough. In the first-time acquisition, the
phase shifter 123 shifts the phase of the local signal by 0 degrees (i.e., no change in phase) on the basis of the phase control signal. In the second-time acquisition, thephase shifter 123 shifts the phase of the local signal by 180 degrees (i.e., a change in phase opposite to the phase in the first-time acquisition) on the basis of the phase control signal. - The
mixer 124 multiplies the output of thephase shifter 123 by an echo signal received by the receivingantenna 140. Themixer 124, when multiplying the two signals by each other, outputs the resultant multiplied signal (beat signal) to the FMCWradar signal processor 110. -
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrated to describe the beat signal derived from the transmission signal and the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough, in the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp. The beat signals generated twice are stored in thebeat signal memory 111. Then, the second-time beat signal is subtracted from the first-time beat signal. - As illustrated in
FIG. 5 , the phases of the beat signals derived from the transmission signal differ by 180 degrees between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp by thephase shifter 123, so the beat signals are added by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal. On the other hand, as illustrated inFIG. 5 , the phases of the beat signals derived from the local feedthrough are the same between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp, so the beat signals are cancelled by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal. - In other words, the
phase shifter 123 that shifts the local signal makes it possible for theFMCW radar device 100 according to the present embodiment to eliminate the influence based on the local feedthrough. Details thereof will be described later. - The transmitting
antenna 130 transmits the local signal amplified by thepower amplifier 122 in a predetermined direction as a transmission signal. The receivingantenna 140 receives an echo signal in which the transmission signal transmitted from the transmittingantenna 130 is reflected back from thetarget 10. The echo signal received by the receivingantenna 140 is sent to themixer 124 described above. - The first configuration example of the FMCW radar device is described above with reference to
FIG. 4 . The operation of the FMCW radar device illustrated inFIG. 4 is now described. - The description is first given of the addition between the beat signals derived from the transmission signal in subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal when the phase is shifted by 180 degrees by the phase shifter.
- The frequency of the transmission signal increases linearly with time from f0 to f0+BW by the chirp as expressed in Formula (1) below. Moreover, although this example illustrates that the frequency of the transmission signal increases linearly with time, the frequency can decrease linearly with time. In addition, the frequency of the transmission signal can increase or decrease with time in a form other than linear.
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- In this event, the phase of the transmission signal is obtained by time integrating the frequency, so it becomes a quadratic function of the time t as expressed in Formula (2) below.
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- Further, the phase of the echo signal is delayed by the time τ when it takes the transmission signal to reciprocate the distance to the target, so resulting in Formula (3) below.
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- The beat signal in the first-time chirp is first obtained. In the phase of the local signal input to the
mixer 124, the shift amount by thephase shifter 123 is set to 0 degrees in the first-time chirp, so the phase has the same phase as the transmission signal, as expressed in Formula (4) below. -
- When the
mixer 124 multiplies the local signal by the echo signal, a phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal becomes the phase of the beat signal as expressed in Formula (5). -
- In Formula (5), τ2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted. Assuming that the amplitude of the beat signal is set to A, the beat signal in the first-time chirp is as expressed in Formula (6) below.
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- The beat signal in the second-time chirp is then obtained. In the phase of the local signal input to the
mixer 124, the shift amount by thephase shifter 123 is set to 180 degrees in the second-time chirp, so the phase becomes a phase obtained by adding π to Formula (4), as expressed in Formula (7) below. -
- When the
mixer 124 multiplies the local signal by the echo signal, the phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal becomes the phase of the beat signal as expressed in Formula (8). -
- In Formula (8), τ2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted, which is similar to Formula (5). Assuming that the amplitude of the beat signal is set to A, the beat signal in the second-time chirp is as expressed in Formula (9) below.
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- The second-time beat signal is subtracted from the first-time beat signal obtained in this way, resulting in Formula (10).
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- Thus, as expressed in Formula (10), when the phase is shifted by 180 degrees by the phase shifter, it is found that the beat signals derived from the transmission signal are added in subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal.
- Then, the description is given of the cancellation of the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough in subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal when the phase is shifted by 180 degrees by the phase shifter.
- The beat signal in the first-time chirp is first obtained. In the phase of the local signal input to the
mixer 124, the shift amount by thephase shifter 123 is set to 0 degrees in the first-time chirp, so the phase has the same phase as the transmission signal, as expressed in Formula (11) below. The local feedthrough is the leakage of the local signal input to themixer 124, so the phase of the local feedthrough is the same as the phase of the local signal. -
- The phase of the echo signal derived from the local feedthrough is delayed by the time τ of reciprocating the distance to the target, so resulting in Formula (12) below.
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- The phase of the beat signal is expressed by Formula (13) by allowing the
mixer 124 to output the phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal. -
- In Formula (13), τ2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted. Assuming that the amplitude of the beat signal is set to B, the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough in the first-time chirp is expressed in Formula (14) below.
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- The beat signal in the second-time chirp is then obtained. In the phase of the local signal input to the
mixer 124, the shift amount by thephase shifter 123 is set to 180 degrees in the second-time chirp, so the phase becomes a phase obtained by adding π to Formula (11), as expressed in Formula (15) below. -
- The phase of the echo signal derived from the local feedthrough is delayed by the time τ of reciprocating the distance to the target, so resulting in Formula (16) below.
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- The phase of the beat signal is expressed by Formula (17) by allowing the
mixer 124 to output the phase difference between the local signal and the echo signal. -
- In Formula (17), τ2 is sufficiently smaller than the other terms and so can be omitted, which is similar to Formula (13). Assuming that the amplitude of the beat signal is set to B, the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough in the second-time chirp is as expressed in Formula (18) below.
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- The subtraction of the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal obtained in this way produces Formula (19).
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[Math. 19] -
S Beat(t)=S Beat1(t)−S Beat2(t)=0 (19) - In other words, it can be found that, as expressed in Formula 19, the beat signals caused by the local feedthrough are canceled in subtracting the beat signal caused by the second-time local feedthrough from the beat signal caused by the first-time local feedthrough when the phase is shifted by 180 degrees by the phase shifter.
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FMCW radar device 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, when acquiring twice the beat signal obtained by allowing the phase shifter to shift the local signal by 180 degrees, makes it possible to cancel the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough, thereby obtaining only the beat signal derived from the local signal. TheFMCW radar device 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is capable of cancelling the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough and obtaining only the beat signal derived from the local signal, thereby achieving accurate measurement of the distance to the target. - A second configuration example of the FMCW radar device is now described.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrated to describe the second configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure. The second configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated inFIG. 6 differs from the first configuration example illustrated inFIG. 4 in that two phase shifters are provided. - A
phase shifter 123 a shifts the phase of the local signal generated by thelocal oscillator 121 by a predetermined amount, which is similar to the first configuration example illustrated inFIG. 4 . Thephase shifter 123 a shifts the local signal by the shift amount based on the phase control signal that is output from the FMCWradar signal processor 110. In one example, thephase shifter 123 a shifts the phase by 0 degrees or 180 degrees on the basis of the phase control signal. The output from thephase shifter 123 a is sent to themixer 124 and aphase shifter 123 b. - The
phase shifter 123 b further shifts the phase of the signal output from thephase shifter 123 a by a predetermined amount. Thephase shifter 123 b shifts the signal output from thephase shifter 123 a by the shift amount based on the phase control signal that is output from the FMCWradar signal processor 110. In one example, thephase shifter 123 b shifts the phase by 0 degrees or 180 degrees on the basis of the phase control signal. - The shift amounts twice by the
phase shifters local oscillator 121. In addition, the shift amounts by thephase shifters - Specifically, in the FMCW radar device illustrated in
FIG. 6 , the beat signal derived from the transmission signal is made to be different in phase by 180 degrees between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp by thephase shifter 123 a, as in the first configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated inFIG. 4 . Thus, the signals are added by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal. On the other hand, the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough is identical in phase between the first-time chirp and the second-time chirp, so it is canceled by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal. - In other words, the
phase shifter 123 that shifts the local signal makes it possible for theFMCW radar device 100 according to the present embodiment to eliminate the influence based on the local feedthrough. - A third configuration example of the FMCW radar device is now described.
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrated to describe a third configuration example of the FMCW radar device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure. The third configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated inFIG. 7 differs from the first configuration example illustrated inFIG. 4 in that atransmission signal multiplier 126 a and alocal signal multiplier 126 b are provided. In addition, in the third configuration example of the FMCW radar device illustrated inFIG. 7 , the shift amount by aphase shifter 125 is determined on the basis of the multiplication amounts of thetransmission signal multiplier 126 a and thelocal signal multiplier 126 b. - The
transmission signal multiplier 126 a multiplies the frequency of the local signal output from thelocal oscillator 121 by N times. In addition, thelocal signal multiplier 126 b multiplies the frequency of the local signal whose phase is shifted by thephase shifter 125 by N times. Thephase shifter 125 shifts the phase of the local signal output from thelocal oscillator 121 by the shift amount based on the phase control signal output from the FMCWradar signal processor 110. In the example illustrated inFIG. 7 , thephase shifter 125 shifts the phase of the local signal output from thelocal oscillator 121 by 0 degrees or X degrees. - The shift amount X by the
phase shifter 125 and the multiplication amount N by thetransmission signal multiplier 126 a and thelocal signal multiplier 126 b are assumed to have the following relationship. -
[Math. 20] -
mod(N·X,360)=180 (20) - In other words, the shift amount X by the
phase shifter 125 is set to a value that becomes 180 when it is multiplied by N times and is wrapped at 360. In one example, X=180/N or X=180+180/N if N is an even number, and X=180/N or X=180 if N is an odd number. - In the
FMCW radar device 100 illustrated inFIG. 7 , thetransmission signal multiplier 126 a provided as described above makes it possible for the transmission signal to increase in frequency and to be transmitted even when thelocal oscillator 121 fails to oscillate at a high frequency. In addition, theFMCW radar device 100 illustrated inFIG. 7 provided with thelocal signal multiplier 126 b makes it possible to make the phase of the local signal different by 180 degrees between two chirps, which is similar to the first configuration example and the second configuration example described above. Then, theFMCW radar device 100 illustrated inFIG. 7 cancels the beat signal derived from the local feedthrough by subtracting the second-time beat signal from the first-time beat signal. - The
FMCW radar device 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough, so it is applicable to a radar device of a system supporting safe driving of a car, which is necessary to perform ranging with high accuracy. -
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrated to describe an example of avehicle 2 on whichFMCW radar devices 100 a to 100 f are mounted. TheFMCW radar devices 100 a to 100 f illustrated inFIG. 8 are assumed to be any of theFMCW radar devices 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure described above. TheFMCW radar devices 100 a to 100 f are any of radar devices for short-range, medium-range, and long-range, and are used for detecting objects or the like around thevehicle 2. - As described above, the
FMCW radar device 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is applicable as a radar device of a system supporting safe driving of a vehicle, so it is possible to contribute to higher performance of the system described above. - According to the embodiment of the present disclosure as described above, there is provided an FMCW radar device capable of eliminating the influence of the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough and performing ranging with high accuracy.
- The preferred embodiment(s) of the present disclosure has/have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, whilst the present disclosure is not limited to the above examples. A person skilled in the art may find various alterations and modifications within the scope of the appended claims, and it should be understood that they will naturally come under the technical scope of the present disclosure.
- In one example, although the shift amount by the phase shifter is set to 180 degrees in the embodiment described above, the present technology is not limited to such example. The shift amount by the phase shifter is not necessarily set to exactly 180 degrees, but in one example, the shift amount by the phase shifter can fall within the range of 180 degrees±22.5 degrees, in which 22.5 degrees is an angle corresponding to π/8, and cos (π/8) is approximately 0.93. The subtraction for the beat signals obtained by a chirp two times makes it possible for the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough to be suppressed to 10% or less. Thus, it is possible to reduce significantly the influence of the beat signal caused by the local feedthrough without exactly setting the shift amount by the phase shifter to 180 degrees.
- Further, the effects described in this specification are merely illustrative or exemplified effects, and are not limitative. That is, with or in the place of the above effects, the technology according to the present disclosure may achieve other effects that are clear to those skilled in the art from the description of this specification.
- Additionally, the present technology may also be configured as below.
- (1) A radar device including:
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- an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal;
- a transmitting antenna configured to emit a transmission signal based on the local signal;
- a receiving antenna configured to receive a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target;
- a mixer configured to multiply the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and
- a first shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.
- (2) The radar device according to (1), further including:
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- a second shifter configured to shift a phase of a signal output by the first shifter between the first shifter and the transmitting antenna.
- (3) The radar device according to (1) or (2),
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- in which the first shifter sets a shift amount to a first value at first-time transmission of the transmission signal and sets the shift amount to a second value at second-time transmission of the transmission signal.
- (4) The radar device according to (3), including:
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- a calculation unit configured to perform subtraction between an output of the mixer at the first-time transmission of the transmission signal and an output of the mixer at the second-time transmission of the transmission signal.
- (5) The radar device according to (3) or (4),
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- in which a difference between the first value and the second value is approximately 180 degrees.
- (6) The radar device according to any of (3) to (5),
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- in which a difference between the first value and the second value is within a range of 180 degrees±22.5 degrees.
- (7) The radar device according to any of (1) to (6), further including:
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- a multiplier configured to multiply a frequency of a signal output by the first shifter by N times between the first shifter and the mixer.
- (8) The radar device according to (7), including:
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- a calculation unit configured to perform subtraction between an output of the mixer at first-time transmission of the transmission signal and an output of the mixer at second-time transmission of the transmission signal.
- (9) The radar device according to (7),
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- in which the first shifter sets a shift amount to a first value at first-time transmission of the transmission signal and sets the shift amount to a second value at second-time transmission of the transmission signal, and a difference between the first value and the second value is a value which becomes approximately 180 degrees when the difference is multiplied by N times and wrapped at 360.
- (10) The radar device according to (7),
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- in which the first shifter sets a shift amount to a first value at first-time transmission of the transmission signal and sets the shift amount to a second value at second-time transmission of the transmission signal, and a difference between the first value and the second value is within a range of 180 degrees±22.5 degrees when the difference is multiplied by N times and wrapped at 360.
- (11) The radar device according to any of (1) to (10), further including:
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- a multiplier configured to multiply a frequency of a signal output by the oscillator by N times between the oscillator and the first shifter.
- (12) The radar device according to any of (1) to (11),
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- in which the local signal is a signal whose frequency increases or decreases with time.
- (13) The radar device according to (12),
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- in which the local signal is a signal whose frequency linearly increases or decreases with time.
- (14) A signal processor including:
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- an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal;
- a mixer configured to multiply a reflected wave in which a transmission signal based on the local signal is reflected from a target and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and
- a first shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.
- (15) A signal processing method including:
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- oscillating, by an oscillator, a local signal;
- emitting a transmission signal based on the local signal from a transmitting antenna;
- receiving, by a receiving antenna, a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target;
- multiplying, by a mixer, the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and
- shifting, by a shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer, a phase of the local signal.
- (16) A mobile object including:
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- the radar device according to any of (1) to (13).
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- 100 FMCW radar device
- 110 FMCW radar signal processor
- 111 beat signal memory
- 120 signal processing unit
- 121 local oscillator
- 122 power amplifier
- 123 phase shifter
- 123 a phase shifter
- 123 b phase shifter
- 124 mixer
- 125 phase shifter
- 126 a transmission signal multiplier
- 126 b local signal multiplier
- 130 transmitting antenna
- 140 receiving antenna
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