Radar System Modeling

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12BEC1087-VAMSI NIKHILESH
12BEC1040-SAMPATH REDDY

 This example shows how to set up a

radar system simulation consisting of
the transmitter, channel with target
and a receiver. This is a key multidiscipline problem in the Aerospace
Defense industry. The RF sections in
the transmitter and receiver are
modeled using SimRF.

 This example requires the following

products:
Signal Processing Toolbox
DSP System Toolbox
Communications System Toolbox
SimRF

System Architecture
A radar pulse generator, which outputs a chirp with a power
of 1 mW at 2% duty cycle(On time = 2 ms, period =
100ms).
An RF transmitter section consisting of a filter and amplifier.
This section is implemented by using blocks from the SimRF
circuit envelope library. Since the filter is a linear device and
the amplifier being non-linear we split them up and house
them in two independent subsystems. In addition the set of
simulation frequencies is different in both subsystems as we
require more frequencies in the non-linear subsystem to
capture the effect of a finite IP3. It is important to note that
this approach represents a trade-off between an increase in
simulation speed and the loss of inter-stage loading effects
available in a cascaded chain.

 An ideal antenna element with

specified boresight gain, operating at
2.1 GHz.
The Target is a theoretical
implementation of a moving target
that fully reflects the entire incident
signal off of its cross- sectional
surface. The surface is perpendicular
to the direction of travel of the
incident radar pulses.

 The RF Receiver is built using the SimRF Circuit

Envelope library. A direct conversion structure is
implemented in the receiver together with an LNA and
matching networks. A touchstone file is used to model
the LNA (receiveamp.s2p). The local oscillator includes
a phase noise model. Similar to the RF transmitter we
have split the model into independent linear and nonlinear subsystems such that, the matching networks,
LNA and filter are in the linear section, while the mixers
and final stage amplifiers are in the non-linear section.
The Receive Module in this example serves two
purposes. First, the module contains a matched filter
detector for target detection. Also, this module serves
as a test bench where a theoretical filter
implementation is realized via Simulink blocks, the
output of each of these filters is compared, and the
difference is plotted.