Automatic target detection and localization using ultra-wideband radar

Dounia Daghouj (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)
Marwa Abdellaoui (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)
Mohammed Fattah (Moulay Ismail University)
Said Mazer (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)
Youness Balboul (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)
Moulhime El Bekkali (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 12, No 2: April 2022

The pulse ultra-wide band (UWB) radar consists of switching of energy of very short duration in an ultra-broadband emission chain, and the UWB signal emitted is an ultrashort pulse, of the order of nanoseconds, without a carrier. These systems can indicate the presence and distances of a distant object, call a target, and determine its size, shape, speed, and trajectory. In this paper, we present a UWB radar system allowing the detection of the presence of a target and its localization in a road environment based on the principle of correlation of the reflected signal with the reference and the determination of its correlation peak.