A novel motion compensation algorithm for automotive SAR : Simulations and experiments

Author

Wu, Huaming ; Zwick, Thomas

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech. und Elektron., Karlsruher Inst. fur Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2010

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

226

Abstract

In this paper a novel motion compensation algorithm for automotive SAR is presented. Aiming at automotive applications, the motion compensation algorithm utilizes only one 1-axis MEMS accelerometer instead of a 6 Degrees of Freedom inertial sensor. A complete motion compensation procedure is presented and its performance is analyzed quantitatively. The critical system parameters are designed with the help of a fully characterized simulator and Monte Carlo simulations. The experiment results demonstrate that the motion compensation algorithm together with a standard low-cost accelerometer can yield very useful images for automotive applications.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; motion compensation; radar imaging; road vehicle radar; synthetic aperture radar; 1-axis MEMS accelerometer; Monte Carlo simulation; automotive SAR; automotive application; low-cost accelerometer; motion compensation; system parameter; Accelerometers; Automotive applications; Automotive engineering; Frequency; Motion compensation; Radar applications; Radar cross section; Radar signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2010 German

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4933-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-9812668-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

5498293