A low-cost narrow-beamwidth DBF radar concept

Author

Tang, Yue ; Lu, Yilong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

320

Abstract

An innovative low-cost and higher than conventional angular resolution digital beamforming (DBF) array radar system is proposed and introduced in this paper. The proposed DBF radar system uses only one set of transceiver plus an additional microwave switch. Compared with conventional configurations with N sets of expensive microwave digital transceivers, the proposed concept can drastically reduce the system cost. Besides, we also propose an innovative DBF scheme that has narrower beamwidth the the conventional one-way or two-way beamforming configurations. The total system cost reduction factor is up to 2 times the number of array elements.

Keywords

array signal processing; microwave switches; radar antennas; radar resolution; DBF array radar system; angular resolution digital beamforming array radar system; array elements; innovative DBF scheme; low-cost narrow-beamwidth DBF radar; microwave digital transceiver; microwave switch; one-way beamforming configuration; system cost reduction; two-way beamforming configuration; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Arrays; Microwave communication; Radar; Radar antennas; Transceivers; Digital beamforming; phased array; radar system; smart antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0666-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333274

Filename

6333274