WO2019158251A1 - Antennenanordnung für einen radarsensor - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
- H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
- H01Q1/32—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
- H01Q1/3208—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the application wherein the antenna is used
- H01Q1/3233—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the application wherein the antenna is used particular used as part of a sensor or in a security system, e.g. for automotive radar, navigation systems
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- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
- H01Q21/0006—Particular feeding systems
- H01Q21/0037—Particular feeding systems linear waveguide fed arrays
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- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
- H01Q21/24—Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction
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- H01Q25/00—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns
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- H01Q25/002—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns providing at least two patterns of different beamwidth; Variable beamwidth antennas
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
- H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart
- H01Q21/061—Two dimensional planar arrays
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- Antennenanordnuna for a radar sensor
- the invention relates to an antenna arrangement for a radar sensor, having an antenna which can be operated as a group antenna and can be operated as a transmitting antenna and an antenna configuration which can be operated as a receiving antenna.
- the invention is concerned with radar sensors used in motor vehicles for locating vehicles ahead and other objects 20 and having a relatively long range of 120 m or more.
- Conventional antenna arrangements for such radar sensors have, as transmitting antenna or as combined transmitting and receiving antenna, a group antenna with a relatively large aperture, which generates a radar lobe which is relatively strongly focused at least in the azimuth.
- Antenna arrangements are also known in which, in addition to the strongly focusing transmitting antenna, a plurality of smaller aperture receiving antennas are provided which are capable of transmitting radar echoes even in a larger angular range around the main radiating direction (0 ° direction) of the antenna arrangement to receive around.
- the directional characteristic of the strongly focusing group antenna has pronounced minimums or zeros, so that the radar sensor is virtually blind for objects lying in this direction.
- these zeros are in the directional characteristic at the azimuth angles in the order of ⁇ 30 °.
- Another way to increase the zero-digit range around the 0 ° direction in a long-range radar sensor is to adequately tap the individual antenna columns of the array antenna. By this is meant that the width and height of the individual antenna patches is varied within the antenna column.
- the object of the invention is therefore to provide an antenna arrangement which has a large range zero range-free area around the 0 ° direction around and can be reproducibly finished.
- This object is achieved in accordance with the invention in that, in addition to the antenna configured as a group antenna, the arrangement has a second antenna operable as transmitter antenna, which has a smaller aperture than the first antenna, that the first and the second antenna for transmission of Ra - Darwellen are formed with mutually orthogonal polarization, and that the operable as a receiving antenna configuration is sensitive to both polarization directions.
- the antenna configuration operable as a receiving antenna can be formed by the first and the second antenna, which are also used for transmitting the radar waves.
- the second antenna has a smaller azimuth
- the second antenna in elevation has a smaller aperture than the first antenna, so that one obtains an extended detection angle range in elevation.
- the passage of the radar waves through the radome of the radar sensor and / or through the bumper of the vehicle results in a certain damping, which depends on the polarization direction of the radar waves.
- the mutually orthogonal polarization directions are chosen so that the attenuation at the radome and / or bumper is minimized.
- a vertical polarization of the radiation emitted by the first antenna with the larger aperture is advantageous.
- the first antenna is formed by a group antenna having a plurality of parallel antenna columns, while the second antenna is formed by a single antenna column.
- the so-called phase source points of the two antennas ie the electronic reference points of the antennas, are in the same position. This ensures that there is no destructive interference, even if the angles deviate greatly from the 0 ° direction (and also in the case of imperfect polarization decoupling).
- the zero-clear area of the directivity need not be quite as large, there may be some skew between the phase source points, if deemed desirable from other points of view.
- the antenna configuration operable as a receive antenna comprises a first receive antenna configured as a group antenna, which has a higher sensitivity for the polarization direction of the first transmit antenna than for the polarization direction of the second transmit antenna, and a second, smaller aperture receive antenna has a higher sensitivity for the polarization direction of the second transmitting antenna than for the polarization direction of the first antenna.
- the first receiving antenna can be identical to the first transmitting antenna and the second receiving antenna can be identical to the second transmitting antenna (monostatic antenna concept).
- the antenna configuration operable as a receive antenna is polarization-pure, ie, each of at least two receive antennas is almost exclusively sensitive to one of the two polarization directions, so that twice the number of evaluation channels is available and with a single radar sensor can cover both the long-range and the near range.
- FIG. 1 shows an example of an antenna arrangement according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 shows a directional characteristic of the antenna arrangement according to FIG. 1.
- the antenna arrangement shown in FIG. 1 has a first antenna 10 in the form of a planar array antenna with six parallel antenna columns 12.
- the six antenna columns 12 are arranged in two groups of three columns each. divided between which there is a gap, which is filled by a second antenna 14.
- the six columns of the first antenna 10 and the single column of the second antenna 14 are serially fed by a common feed network 16 with a high frequency signal of wavelength l.
- the connection points of all seven antenna columns to the feed network 16 lie at regular intervals, which correspond to the wavelength l, so that all the antenna columns receive in-phase signals.
- the connection point of the single-column antenna 14 lies in the middle between the connection points of the antenna columns 12, and the first antenna 10 and the second antenna 14 have a common phase source point 18.
- each antenna column 12 of the first antenna consists of five antenna patches 20 which are each tapered in the vertical direction (or alternatively also or only in the horizontal direction) and each have the height l / 2.
- the first antenna 10 thus emits radar radiation which is polarized in a first polarization direction z.
- the antenna arrangement is formed on a board of a radar sensor which is installed in a motor vehicle which vertically orientates the board and thus the plane of the antennas 10, 14 and the normal on this plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the antenna Vehicle runs.
- the radar radiation of the first antenna 10 is then vertically polarized, and because of the large aperture of the antenna 10 in the azimuth, the radiation is sharply focused in the horizontal direction.
- the second antenna 14 formed by a single column has ten patches 22, which, however, extend at right angles from the associated feed line (alternately in opposite directions) and thus radar radiation which is linearly polarized in a second polarization direction y, at right angles to the first polarization direction z. Since the aperture of the second antenna 14 in the azimuth is only about 1/7 of the aperture of the first antenna 10, the radiation emitted by the second antenna 14 is relatively widely fanned in the azimuth, so that-at a shorter range-a clear larger angle range is covered than with the radar radiation from the first antenna 10.
- the first antenna 10 and the second antenna 14 in the radar sensor considered here have both the function of transmitting antennas and the function of receiving antennas.
- the received radar echo is then decoupled in a known manner by means of a coupler connected to the feed network 16 and separated from the transmission signal, so that one receives from both antennas 10, 12 together only a single received signal in a single evaluation channel.
- Fig. 2 the directional characteristic of the antenna arrangement shown in Fig. 1 is shown graphically.
- This directional characteristic indicates the antenna gain G as a function of the azimuth angle Q. It can be seen that the gain at the azimuth angle 0 ° has a maximum that is flanked by minima at about ⁇ 30 °, but overall only shows relatively small fluctuations. If, instead, the directivity of the first antenna 10 were considered on its own, then at about ⁇ 30 °, the minima would be much more pronounced, so that practically no signal would be detected by objects which were located at these angles would. By the signal of the second antenna 14, these gaps are filled.
- the invention thus enables a reliable location of objects over a very large azimuth angle range, wherein the sensitivity is only slightly reduced in the vicinity of the minima at ⁇ 30 °.
- a bistatic antenna concept could also be implemented, in which the antenna arrangement shown in FIG. 1 is present at least twice, once as a transmitting antenna and once as a receiving antenna.
- an antenna arrangement would be conceivable in which the arrangement shown in FIG. 1 is used with the antennas 10 and 14 as a transmitting antenna and two separate receiving antennas are provided for receiving the radar signals, one of which exclusively for the vertical polarization z and the other is sensitive only to the horizontal polarization direction y.
- the different polarized radar returns can be evaluated separately in two receiving channels, one receiving channel corresponding to one long-range sensor and the other receiving channel to a short-range sensor.
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