Range-Speed Mapping and Target-Classification Measurements of Automotive Targets using Photonic-Radar

Abstract

The frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar is an ideal choice for autonomous vehicle and surveillance-related industries due to its ability to measure the relative target-velocity, target-range, and target-characterization. Unlike conventional microwave radar systems, the photonic radar has the potential to offer wider bandwidth to attain high range-resolution at low input power requirements. Subsequently, a frequency-modulated continuous-wave photonic-radar is developed to measure the target-range and velocity of the automotive mobile targets concurrently with acceptable rang resolution keeping in mind the needs of the state-of-the-art autonomous vehicle industry. Furthermore, the target-identification is also an important parameter to be measured to enable the futuristic autonomous vehicles for the recognition of the objects along with their dimensions. Therefore, the reported work is extended to characterize the target-objects by measuring the specular-reflectance, diffuse-reflectance, the ratio of horizontal-axis to vertical-axis, refractive index constants of the targets using the bidirectional reflectance distribution function. Furthermore, the reflectance properties of the target-objects are also measured with different operating wavelengths at different incident angles to assess the influence of the operating wavelength and the angle at which the radar-pulses incident on the surface of the targets. Moreover, to validate the performance of the demonstrated work, a comparison is also presented in distinction with the conventional microwave FMCW-RADAR.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-020-02557-5
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
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Uncontrolled Keywords: BRDF,FMCW,LRCS,Photonic-radar,RADAR,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Publication ISSN: 1572-817X
Last Modified: 09 Apr 2024 07:16
Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2020 10:04
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2020-09-24
Accepted Date: 2020-09-18
Authors: Sharma, Vishal (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-3219-8958)
Sergeyev, Sergey (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-1515-5019)
Kumar, Love
Kbashi, Hani (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-6343-248X)

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