The present invention is directed to radar systems, and more particularly to radar systems for vehicles.
The use of radar to determine range and velocity of objects in an environment is important in a number of applications including automotive radar and gesture detection. A radar system typically transmits radio signals and listens for the reflection of the radio signals from objects in the environment. By comparing the transmitted radio signals with the received radio signals, a radar system can determine the distance to an object. Using Doppler processing, the velocity of an object can be determined. Using various transmitter and receiver combinations, the location (angle) of an object can also be determined.
Methods and systems of the present invention provide for a shaped antenna pattern to enable a single radar system to support long, medium, and short range applications with a single set of sensing elements. An exemplary radar system of the present invention provides for an antenna pattern with a narrow, high-gain mainlobe for long range coverage and lower gain, broad shoulders for wider field of view or sensing (FOV) medium range and/or short range coverage. This exemplary radar system with the shaped antenna pattern reduces the overall number of sensors, and related cost, for vehicular applications. Difficulties, and cost of, integrating a large number of sensors on the vehicle are also mitigated.
A radar sensing system for a vehicle in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is operable to or configured to transmit a radio signal. The receiver is operable to or configured to receive the transmitted radio signal reflected from objects in the environment. The transmitter includes an antenna and is operable to or configured to transmit the radio signal via the antenna. The antenna includes a plurality of linear arrays of radiators. An arrangement of the linear arrays of radiators is selected to form a selected or desired shaped antenna pattern having a selected or desired mainlobe shape and selected or desired shoulder shapes to cover selected sensing zones without nulls or holes in the coverage.
In an aspect of the present invention, cost and size of an individual sensor is reduced as well when compared to the cost and size of a sensor with multiple sets of sensing elements assigned to different sensing zones.
In another aspect of the present invention, the shaped antenna pattern is tailored to the detection ranges required for the different sensing zones with a smooth pattern shape that avoids nulls or holes in the coverage pattern, thereby mitigating drawbacks inherent in the approach using antenna pattern sidelobes to cover selected sensing zones.
In another aspect of the present invention, compared to the phased array solution, the exemplary embodiment reduces costs. Furthermore, the exemplary embodiment is compatible with MIMO radar techniques which provide phased array type flexibility on receive via digital beamforming. MIMO radar techniques also offer advantages compared to phased array radar, including a synthetically enhanced virtual receive antenna with improved angle resolution and accuracy. Another advantage of MIMO radar with digital beamforming is the entire field of view or sensing (FOV) can be covered in a single, long duration dwell with improved Doppler resolution.
These and other objects, advantages, purposes and features of the present invention will become apparent upon review of the following specification in conjunction with the drawings.
The present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying figures, wherein numbered elements in the following written description correspond to like-numbered elements in the figures. The shaped antenna pattern of the present invention enables a single radar system with a single set of sensing elements to mitigate the number of sensors, as well as the number of sets of sensing elements per sensor, needed to cover multiple sensing zones. Multiple sensing zones are required for many current and future sensing applications, including those for vehicular active safety and autonomous driving. The present invention reduces the overall number and cost of the sensors per vehicle for these applications, as well as the cost and size of an individual sensor. Challenges and cost related to integration of a large number of sensors on a vehicle are also mitigated.
An exemplary MIMO radar system is illustrated in
The radar sensing system of the present invention may utilize aspects of the radar systems described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,575,160 and/or 9,599,702, and/or U.S. patent applications, Ser. No. 15/481,648, filed Apr. 7, 2017, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,689,967, Ser. No. 15/416,219, filed Jan. 26, 2017, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,772,397, and/or Ser. No. 15/292,755, filed Oct. 13, 2016, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,753,121, and/or U.S. provisional applications, Ser. No. 62/382,857, filed Sep. 2, 2016, Ser. No. 62/381,808, filed Aug. 31, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,003, filed Apr. 25, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,004, filed Apr. 25, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,005, filed Apr. 25, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,006, filed Apr. 25, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,015, filed Apr. 25, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,016, filed Apr. 25, 2016, Ser. No. 62/327,017, filed Apr. 25, 2016, which are all hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
Shaped Antenna Patterns:
Current and future vehicular applications related to active safety and autonomous driving envision long, medium, and short range sensing zones with unique requirements in terms of detection range and horizontal field of view (FOV). Current sensing solutions include separate long range, medium range, and/or short range sensors, resulting in high cost and challenges in vehicle integration. Other solutions including providing different sets of sensing elements within a single sensor, with the different sets of sensing elements covering different sensing zones. Multiple sensing elements increase the size and cost of the individual sensor.
Other current solutions for a single sensor with multiple sensing zones include the use of the radar antenna pattern main lobe to cover a long range, narrow FOV sensing zone and antenna pattern sidelobes to cover medium range and/or short range sensing zones with wider FOV. The use of antenna pattern sidelobes can often be insufficient in terms of detection range for the medium range sensing zone. Further, the nulls inherent in the antenna sidelobe structure may lead to unacceptable holes in the coverage pattern.
Still another solution for a single sensor includes the use of a phased array antenna with flexible gain, beamwidth, and scan angle. This solution provides the most flexibility, but is typically too expensive for vehicular radar.
The shaped antenna pattern of the present invention enables a single radar system with a single set of sensing elements to mitigate the number of sensors, as well as the number of sets of sensing elements per sensor, needed to cover multiple sensing zones.
The shaped antenna pattern of the present invention is realized in the horizontal dimension by an appropriate phase and amplitude distribution in the power combiner 740.
MIMO radar systems generally use a set of multiple transmit and receive antennas, as illustrated in
The exemplary embodiments of the present invention are not constrained to shaping of the horizontal antenna pattern tailored to specified horizontal sensing zones. For example, the present invention can be applied to shape the antenna pattern in the vertical dimension tailored to specified vertical sensing zones by using transmit and/or receive antennas composed of multiple horizontal rows of radiators combined into a single antenna port using a power combiner. As an example,
Vertical shaping of the antenna pattern may be appropriate, for example, when the specified vertical FOV and detection range varies substantially for long range, medium range and/or short range objects/targets. This is often the case for vehicular radar, as illustrated in
The present invention is also not constrained to pattern shaping in only a single dimension.
To shape an antenna pattern in the orthogonal dimension, an appropriate phase and amplitude distribution is realized along each row or column of radiators. Phase and amplitude along individual linear arrays of radiators can be controlled with known techniques including, for example, selecting a particular width and/or length of microstrip used to interconnect individual patch radiators of a linear array of patch radiators and/or particular dimensions of the individual patch radiators.
In another aspect of the present invention, the amplitude and phase along a linear array of radiators may be controlled using SIW slotted radiators with the position and dimension of each slot used to control the amplitude and phase of each radiator.
In yet another aspect of the present invention, a two-dimensional array of radiators may be implemented with both horizontal and vertical amplitude and phase distribution by use of a single or multi-layer corporate feed network to connect each individual radiator via power combiners.
The two-dimensional amplitude distribution for an array of patch radiators may be controlled by the dimensions of the individual patch radiators 1310 and the two-dimensional phase distribution may be controlled by the length of the microstrip feed line routed to each radiator, as illustrated in
In yet another aspect of the present invention, the amplitude distribution may be controlled over a two-dimensional array of patch radiators by varying the width of individual segments of the microstrip corporate feed network.
A variety of embodiments have been presented herein that allow for the selection of a desired antenna pattern shape using only a single sensor. As discussed herein, using a variety of patch radiator shapes, microstrip feedline lengths and thicknesses, horizontal and vertical antenna pattern shapes may be created. As also discussed herein, a given antenna pattern shape may be utilized as either a transmit antenna or as a receive antenna, or in the alternative as both.
Changes and modifications in the specifically described embodiments can be carried out without departing from the principles of the present invention, which is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims, as interpreted according to the principles of patent law including the doctrine of equivalents.
The present application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/IB2017/052375, filed Apr. 25, 2017, which claims the filing benefits of U.S. provisional application, Ser. No. 62/327,018, filed Apr. 25, 2016, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
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