Integrated time-of-flight laser radar

Author

Palojärvi, Pasi ; Määttä, Kari ; Kostamovaara, Juha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Oulu Univ., Finland

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

1996

Firstpage

1378

Abstract

A small, hand-held pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) laser radar device was designed and tested. The aim was to implement the receiver channel and time-to-digital converter (TDC) with application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in order to reduce current consumption, cost, weight and size. The measurement range of the device is 1...20 m to a noncooperative target (reflectivity >0.3) and an accuracy of <35 mm is achieved with measuring time of 200 ms in a temperature range of -10...+30°C. Power consumption during continuous measurement is 0.84 W

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; optical radar; radar receivers; -10 to 30 C; 0.84 W; 1 to 20 m; 200 ms; ASIC; PIN diodes; TOF; accuracy; application-specific integrated circuits; cost; current consumption; hand-held pulsed laser radar; noncooperative target; optics; power consumption; receiver channel; reflectivity; size; temperature range; time-of-flight laser radar; time-to-digital converter; weight; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit testing; Costs; Integrated circuit measurements; Laser radar; Optical design; Optical pulses; Reflectivity; Temperature distribution; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1996. IMTC-96. Conference Proceedings. Quality Measurements: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality., IEEE

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3312-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1996.507597

Filename

507597