Radar device, signal processing device and signal processing method for radar device

• US 10,408,920 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2016
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurono, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Gregory, Bernarr E
• Application Number:
  US15/271,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20170131385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,084 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/343 using sawtooth modulation
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/42 Simultaneous measurement of distance and other co-ordinates indirect measurement G01S13/46
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/584 adapted for simultaneous range and velocity measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/352 Receivers

Abstract

There is provided a radar device. A transmitting unit transmits a transmission signal in which an up period and a down period are repeated. A receiving unit receives reception signals from a target. A distance measuring unit computes the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the up period, as an up-side distance, and computes the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the down period, as a down-side distance. An aliasing determining unit determines whether velocity aliasing has occurred, based on the up-side distance and the down-side distance. A velocity measuring unit computes the relative velocity between the target and the radar device, based on the result of determination on velocity aliasing, and one of the reception signal of the up period and the reception signal of the down period.

Claims

1. A radar device comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a transmission signal in which an up period in which the frequency increases and a down period in which the frequency are repeated;

a receiver configured to receive the reflected waves of the transmission signal from a target, as reception signals; and

a processor configured to execute a program to;

compute the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the up period, as an up-side distance, and compute the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the down period, as a down-side distance;

determine whether velocity aliasing has occurred, on the basis of the up-side distance and the down-side distance; and

compute the relative velocity between the target and the radar device, on the basis of the result of determination on velocity aliasing, and at least one of the reception signal corresponding to the up period and the reception signal corresponding to the down period.

2. The radar device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor obtains the number of times of aliasing on the basis of the difference between the up-side distance and the down-side distance, and

wherein the processor corrects a relative velocity obtained on the basis of at least one of the reception signal corresponding to the up period and the reception signal corresponding to the down period, on the basis of the number of times of aliasing, thereby computing the relative velocity of the target.

3. The radar device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor obtains the number of times of aliasing on the basis of the difference between the up-side distance and the down-side distance, and

wherein the processor obtains a plurality of velocity measurement results regardless of the possibility of aliasing, on the basis of at least one of the reception signal corresponding to the up period and the reception signal corresponding to the down period, and selects the relative velocity of the target from the plurality of velocity measurement results, on the basis of the number of times of aliasing.

4. A signal processing device for a radar device, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive the reflected waves of a transmission signal in which an up period in which the frequency increases and a down period in which the frequency are repeated, from a target, as reception signals, and compute the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the up period, as an up-side distance, and compute the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the down period, as a down-side distance; and

a processor configured to execute a computer program to;

determine whether velocity aliasing has occurred, on the basis of the up-side distance and the down-side distance; and

compute the relative velocity between the target and the radar device, on the basis of the result of determination on aliasing, and at least one of the reception signal corresponding to the up period and the reception signal corresponding to the down period.

5. A signal processing method for a radar device, comprising:

receiving the reflected waves of a transmission signal in which an up period in which the frequency increases and a down period in which the frequency are repeated, from a target, as reception signals, and computing the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the up period, as an up-side distance, and computing the distance between the target and the radar device based on a reception signal corresponding to the down period, as a down-side distance;

determining whether velocity aliasing has occurred, on the basis of the up-side distance and the down-side distance; and

computing the relative velocity between the target and the radar device, on the basis of the result of determination on aliasing, and at least one of the reception signal corresponding to the up period and the reception signal corresponding to the down period.