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Record W3136382407 · doi:10.3390/s21072296

A Signal Processing Algorithm of Two-Phase Staggered PRI and Slow Time Signal Integration for MTI Triangular FMCW Multi-Target Tracking Radars

2021· article· en· W3136382407 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSensors · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicRadar Systems and Signal Processing
Canadian institutionsDefence Research and Development Canada
FundersMinistère de la Défense Nationale
KeywordsContinuous-wave radarPulse-Doppler radarRadarComputer scienceSIGNAL (programming language)Pulse repetition frequencyFire-control radarMoving target indicationLow probability of intercept radarWaveformElectronic engineeringRadar imagingEngineeringTelecommunications

Abstract

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In this paper, a novel signal processing algorithm for mitigating the radar blind speed problem of moving target indication (MTI) for frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) multi-target tracking radars is proposed. A two-phase staggered pulse repetition interval (PRI) solution is introduced to the FMCW radar system. It is implemented as a time-varying MTI filter using twice the hardware resources as compared to a uniform PRI MTI filter. The two-phase staggered PRI FMCW waveform is still periodic with a little more than twice the period of the uniform PRI radar. We also propose a slow time signal integration scheme for the radar detector using the post-fast Fourier transformation Doppler tracking loop. This scheme introduces 4.77 dB of extra signal processing gain to the signal before the radar detector compared with the original uniform PRI FMCW radar. The validation of the algorithm is done on the field programmable logic array in the loop test bed, which accurately models and emulates the target movement, line of sight propagation and radar signal processing. A simulation run of tracking 16 s of the target movement near or at the radar blind speed shows that the total degradation from the raw post-fast Fourier transformation received signal to noise ratio is about 2 dB. With a 20 dB post-processing signal to noise ratio of the proposed algorithm for the moving target at around a 20 km range and with about a −3.5 dB m2 radar cross section at a 1.5 GHz carrier frequency, the tracking errors of the two-dimensional angles with a 4×4 digital phased array are less than 0.2 degree. The range tracking error is about 28 m.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.721
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it