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Design and Implementation Pulse Compression for S-Band Surveillance Radar Kalfika Yani; Fiky Y Suratman; Koredianto Usman
JMECS (Journal of Measurements, Electronics, Communications, and Systems) Vol 7 No 1 (2020): JMECS
Publisher : Universitas Telkom

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25124/jmecs.v7i1.2631

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The radar air surveillance system consists of 4 main parts, there are antenna, RF front-end, radar signal processing, and radar data processing. Radar signal processing starts from the baseband to IF section. The radar waveform consists of two types of signal, there are continuous wave (CW) radar, and pulse compression radar [1]. Range resolution for a given radar can be significantly improved by using very short pulses. Pulse compression allows us to achieve the average transmitted power of a relatively long pulse, while obtaining the range resolution corresponding to a short pulse. Pulse compression have compression gain. With the same power, pulse compression radar can transmit signal further than CW radar. In the modern radar, waveform is implemented in digital platform. With digital platform, the radar waveform can optimize without develop the new hardware platform. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is the best platform to implemented radar signal processing, because FPGA have ability to work in high speed data rate and parallel processing. In this research, we design radar signal processing from baseband to IF using Xilinx ML-605 Virtex-6 platform which combined with FMC-150 high speed ADC/DAC.
Robust Modified MVDR Scheme Using Chirp Signal for Direction of Arrival Estimation Kalfika Yani; Koredianto Usman; Fiky Y Suratman
JMECS (Journal of Measurements, Electronics, Communications, and Systems) Vol 6 No 1 (2020): JMECS
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25124/jmecs.v6i1.2630

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This research is about an effort to increase the robustness of the Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) algorithm to noise by using a chirp signal for direction of arrival estimation (DoA). DoA is a part of radar capability to estimate the angle of arrival on the object under observation. The conventional MVDR as proposed by J. Capon, was designed to work with the monochromatic sinusoidal signal. Even though the conventional MVDR work on low SNR up to 0 dB, however, the conventional method does not work well if chirp signal is used instead of monochromatic sinusoidal signal. The usage of MVDR chirp signal is essential in the case of a very low SNR environment such as in long distance object detection, which is typically more than 10 km. The problem to be solved in this research is how to modify the MVDR algorithm so that it can work well on chirp signal. In this research we offer a modified MVDR algorithm by adding the matched filter and the phase detector components before the MVDR algorithm is applied. Matched filter is responsible for the timing of the chirp signal detection, and the phase detector is to estimate the time delay estimation of each chirp signal from each antenna with a reference signal, which correspond to the phases. Based on the phase estimation, sinusoidal signal is generated and fed to the MVDR algorithm. On the technical aspect, the chirp signal is sent intermittently with a duration of 100 ?s and repeated in time interval of 1 ms. The antenna sensor using an array of Uniform Linear Array (ULA) which consist of N-elements. Computer simulation shows that the modified MVDR using the chirp signal improve the robustness of the algorithm up to -30 dB, while on the other hand the classical MVDR works only up to 0 dB SNR. -30 dB of SNR is the minimum requirement of 3D Radar existing.