A Study on the Methods to Simulate the Target Reflective Signal in a Wideband Radar

It is essential for the near-field receiving measurement to make beam pattern and check the performance of a active phased array antenna system. Also, we could obtain compensation value for mono-pulse function through the near-field receive test, however, if the radar has many frequency channel, the test would take long time and hard effort. So it is needed that frequency channels are selected for measurement and calculates the values for other frequency channels to improve efficiency in development and manufacture. In this case, the phase variations in sum and del channels would be checked. The phase measurement includes un-linear characteristic because of wrapping effect. Generally, radars have similar path length in sum and del channel, but if a radar has a electrical length gap between sum and del channel, errors could occur by phase's wrapping effect. In this paper, the interpolation method's error caused by electrical length gap is checked and the effective method for frequency channel selection to avoid wrapping effect is introduced.

A Study on Sample Frequency Channel Selection of Near-Field Receiving Measurement for the Active Phased Array Antenna for Mono-Pulse Accuracy

Kwon¹,

Yoon²,

Yoo³

et al. 2017

Clustering Method Using a Monopulse for Divided Detection of Closely Spaced Airborne Targets

Kong¹,

Sohn²,

Moon³

et al. 2021

In a radar system, a clustering algorithm is mainly used to group adjacent cells using CFAR algorithm results. However, in closely spaced airborne targets, it is difficult to divide the targets using common clustering methods. Therefore, this paper proposes a clustering method using a monopulse rather than increasing the range and Doppler resolution. Even with adjacent hits, if the monopulse value is more than a specified threshold, the results are not grouped into one cluster.

Software-in-Loop Simulation System Implementation for Fighter Radar Developments

Kim¹,

Jeon²,

Lee³

et al. 2022

Herein, we implement a software-in-loop simulation (SILS) system for fighter radar systems. The implemented SILS system simulates fighter radar environments and hardware by mathematical modeling, generates radar-simulated digital signals, and stores/analyzes simulation results. It includes a personal computer (PC)-based virtual radar processing unit, which can be used to develop radar control and process algorithms and codes and can also examine the functions and performance of the software and code of actual radar processing equipment by connecting actual equipment. Because antenna and transceiver models are included, the performance of the initial hardware designs at the system level can be examined in the simulation environment, thereby increasing the hardware design and development speed. We demonstrate the validity and usefulness of the SILS system, implemented using the radar environment and hardware mathematical models obtained from the development of fighter radars for numerous years, through SILS-based test results.