Method and Arrangement for the Detection of an Object in a Radar Field

• US 20140152490A1
• Filed: 12/03/2012
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jenoptik Robot GmbH (Jenoptik AG)
• Original Assignee: Michael Lehning
• Inventors: LEHNING, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/692,618
• Publication Number:
  US 20140152490A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/169
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/867 Combination of radar systems with cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/91 for traffic control G01S13/93 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/92 for velocity measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/006 using shared front-end circuitry, e.g. antennas G01S13/765, G01S13/825 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4004 of parts of a radar system
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4026 Antenna boresight
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4052 by simulation of echoes
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4056 specially adapted to FMCW
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4091 during normal radar operation
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4095 the external reference signals being modulated, e.g. rotating a dihedral reflector or modulating a transponder for simulation of a Doppler echo
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/14 Traffic procedures, e.g. traffic regulations
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/54 Simulation of radar G09B9/40 takes precedence

Abstract

A method and arrangement for detecting an object in a radar field (2.2) in which a simulator (3) arranged in a stationary manner in a radar field (2.2) of a radar device (2), which is outfitted with a radar transmitter (2.1) and a radar receiver (2.3), is suitable for simulating a speed profile which is defined by temporally consecutive speed changes. The simulator (3) is actuated in such a way that it simulates at least one predetermined atypical speed profile which cannot be associated with any expectable moving object so that, in addition to reflection signals from objects moving through the radar field (2.2), the radar receiver (2.3) receives simulator signals caused by the simulator (3), and status information associated with the atypical speed profile derived from these simulator signals.

Claims

1. A method for detecting an object in a radar field of a radar device, comprising arranging a simulator in a stationary manner in said radar field, said radar device having a radar transmitter and a radar receiver capable of simulating a speed profile which is defined by temporally consecutive speed changes, actuating said simulator so as to simulate at least one predetermined atypical speed profile which cannot be associated with any expectable moving object, receiving simulator signals at said radar receiver caused by said simulator, and receiving status information associated with the atypical speed profile derived from said simulator signals, in addition to receiving reflection signals from objects moving through said radar field.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said speed profile is determined by abruptly changing speeds.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said status information is deduced from unchanged reception of simulator signals to the effect that no object is stopped in a line of sight between said radar device and said simulator and, correspondingly, when there is no reception, status information is deduced to the effect that at least one object is located in the line of sight.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said status information is deduced from the reception of indeterminately changed simulator signals to the effect that a misalignment of the radar device has occurred.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising selectively actuating said simulator for simulation of different speed profiles in timed correspondence to changing switch states of a traffic signal device in order to deduce the different switch states as status information from the different simulator signals.

6. The method according to one of claim 2, further comprising actuating a camera, depending on the deduced status information, when said radar receiver receives reflection signals.

7. The method according to one of claim 3, further comprising actuating a camera, depending on the deduced status information, when said radar receiver receives reflection signals.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising actuating a camera, depending on the deduced status information, when said radar receiver receives reflection signals.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein different switch states of said signal device relate to a display of different permissible maximum speeds, and the different simulator signals represent different permissible maximum speeds and are compared with speeds that were derived from the reflection signals.

10. An arrangement for practicing a method according to claim 1, comprising a stationary radar device for determining a radar field, said radar device having a radar transmitter and a radar receiver, a stationary simulator in said radar field, said simulator and said radar device forming a line of sight, said simulation being suitable for the simulation of at least one predefined atypical speed profile which cannot be associated with any expectable moving object and which is determined by temporally consecutive speed changes, and a simulator control for actuating said simulator for simulation of different predefined speed profiles.

11. The arrangement according to claim 10, wherein said simulator control communicates with a traffic signal device whose switch states can change, and wherein said simulator control is configured so that said simulator can be actuated simultaneous with the change in the switch state in order to simulate different atypical speed profiles during different switch states.

12. The arrangement according to claim 10, further comprising at least one reflector arranged in said line of sight between said radar device and said simulator.

13. The arrangement according to claim 11, further comprising at least one reflector arranged in said line of sight between said radar device and said simulator.