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Passive Radar

This document discusses passive radar systems. It begins by explaining how active radar systems work and then describes passive radar systems, which rely on detecting ambient signals and their reflections rather than transmitting their own signals. It outlines some of the challenges of passive radar, such as needing extra signal processing to detect reference signals. The document then details the current model for a passive radar system, which uses a beamformer, classifier, and detector. It closes by discussing future work needed, such as statistically classifying ambient signals and choosing a suitable reference signal.

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Passive Radar

This document discusses passive radar systems. It begins by explaining how active radar systems work and then describes passive radar systems, which rely on detecting ambient signals and their reflections rather than transmitting their own signals. It outlines some of the challenges of passive radar, such as needing extra signal processing to detect reference signals. The document then details the current model for a passive radar system, which uses a beamformer, classifier, and detector. It closes by discussing future work needed, such as statistically classifying ambient signals and choosing a suitable reference signal.

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Passive Radar

Mentor: Erik Johnson


By Koushik Roy
What is RADAR?
RAdio Detection And Ranging
A radio transmitter emits an electromagnetic
pulse and waits for the echo.
An object t seconds away produces an echo
reflection of the transmitted signal, delayed
by t seconds
Each reflection scales the amplitude of the
wave down by a factor.
Echoes from objects in the environment
consist of scaled and shifted (or delayed)
versions of the originally transmitted pulse.
A Modern Radar Detection
System
Passive or Active Radar?
Active radar systems transmit a known
signal.
Most systems are active.
Such systems can be detected and jammed.
Passive radar systems rely on ambient
signals, and their reflections.
Signal processing
Reference signal and reflection signals
Hard to detect or jam.
Efficient power usage

Challenges involved in Passive
Radar
Extra signal processing must occur to
select and detect the reference signal
Receiver and transmitter are in different
locations
Reference signal must be filtered out of
the input received by the receiver
Goals and Assumptions
Segment space into regions, and to
classify valid signals in each space.
Select a good reference signal.
Fits energy and modulation criterion
Receiver remains stationary
Use signals from the FM band
Simulations will provide much of the
environment for refining theories.

Progress
Radar signal processing theory
How can we use reflections to detect objects
What constitutes a typical radar system
What separates active from passive radar.
Electromagnetic Wave propagation theory
Time delays in reflections
Amplitude scaling in reflections
Beamforming and wavefronts
A coherent model of a passive radar system.
MATLAB code.
A radar simulator
A beamforming weights generator
A beamformer
The Current Model
Beamformer
Allows us to sweep the environment spatially
Segment space into different regions
Classifier
Determines the properties of ambient signals.
Statistically chooses a reference signal.
Detector
Filters out the reference signal
Determines the reflections of the reference signal
Conventional Radar Techniques
Beamformers
Typically implemented with a phased array of
omnidirectional antennas.
All electromagnetic plane waves have
wavefronts.
These wavefronts hit different receivers in
the phased array at different times, based on
the incident angle of the waves.
By applying digital weights to each antenna,
we can digitally steer the array of antennas.
Beamforming System
Simulator Output
3 Transmitters, 3 Point Reflectors, 6 Receivers

Inputs
Simulator Output
3 Transmitters, 3 Point Reflectors, 6 Receivers

Outputs
Work to be Done
Segmentation of the environment spatially
Statistically classify ambient signals
Analysis of the energy and frequency
modulation properties of signals.
Make a correct choice for a passive radar
reference signal.

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