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Efficient Implementation of FMCW Radar Signal Processing Parts Using Low Cost DSP

저가형 DSP를 사용하는 FMCW 레이더 신호처리부의 효율적 구현 방안

  • Oh, Woojin (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
  • Received : 2016.03.07
  • Accepted : 2016.03.23
  • Published : 2016.04.30
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Abstract

Active driving safety systems for vehicle, such as the front collision avoidance, lane departure warning, and lane change assistance, have been popular to be adopted to the compact car. For improving performance and competitive cost, FMCW radar has been researched to adopt a phased array or a multi-beam antenna, and to integrate the front and the side radar. In this paper we propose several efficient methods to implement the signal processing module of FMCW radar system using low cost DSP. The pulse width modulation (PWM) based analog conversion, the approximation of time-eating functions, and the adoption of vector-based computation, etc, are proposed and implemented. The implemented signal processing board shows the real-time performance of 1.4ms pulse repetition interval (PRI) with 1024pt-FFT. In real road we verify the radar performance under real-time constraints of 10Hz update time.

차량용 능동안전 시스템은 전방충돌방지, 차선이탈 경보, 차선변경 지원 등이 있으며 소형차에 도입될 정도로 대중화되고 있다. 대표적인 능동안전 시스템인 FMCW 레이더는 가격 경쟁력과 성능개선을 위해 전방과 측면용 레이더의 통합과 위상배열이나 다중 안테나의 적용이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 차량용 FMCW레이더 시스템의 신호처리부를 저가의 DSP로 구현하기 위한 효율적인 방안들을 제안한다. PWM기반의 아날로그 변환, 계산량을 줄이는 근사화 기법, 효율적인 벡터연산 등을 제안하고 구현하였다. 구현된 신호처리 보드는 1.4ms의 펄스 반복간격에서 1024길이의 FFT 처리가 실시간 성능을 보였다. 실제 도로 실험에서 10Hz의 갱신율로 실시간 동작과 성능을 확인하였다.

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