Target detection and ranging with the 2.4 GHz MIT Coffee Can radar

Author

Gurbuz, Sevgi Zubeyde ; Ozcan, Mustafa Bugra ; Panni, Ali Burak ; Demirhan, Seda ; Hayran, Zeki ; Karaduman, Melis Cansu ; Seyfioglu, Mehmet Saygin ; Tekeli, B. ; Cagliyan, Bahri

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., TOBB Univ. of Econ. & Technol., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 April 2014

Firstpage

1450

Lastpage

1453

Abstract

For the purpose of increasing the undergraduate student interest in and knowledge of radar, a 2.4 GHz FMCW MIT Coffee Can radar was built by 2^nd and 3^rd year undergraduates in the TOBB ETÜ Radar Systems Laboratory, and used for target detection and ranging. The radar was constructed both on a protoboard and on a printed circuit board (PCB). SPICE simulations were conducted to aid in debugging and demonstrate the proper functioning of the transmitter and receiver. The potential to discriminate slow-moving targets was assessed by measuring the micro-Doppler of walking and running people, low-speed vehicles, and bicyclists. The project was successful in increasing student interest in radar and signal processing. In the future, it is aimed to further develop the system at an RF circuit design level into a pulse Doppler radar.

Keywords

CW radar; Doppler effect; FM radar; engineering education; object detection; printed circuits; radar detection; 2nd year undergraduates; 3rd year undergraduates; FMCW MIT Coffee Can radar; PCB; RF circuit design level; SPICE simulations; TOBB ETÜ Radar Systems Laboratory; bicyclists; frequency 2.4 GHz; low-speed vehicles; micro-Doppler; printed circuit board; pulse Doppler radar; ranging; receiver; running people; signal processing; slow-moving targets; target detection; transmitter; undergraduate student interest; walking people; Conferences; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Radar imaging; Radio frequency; Signal processing; FMCW; education; radar hardware;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2014 22nd

Conference_Location

Trabzon

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIU.2014.6830513

Filename

6830513