Whole system radar modelling:: Simulation and validation

Jithin Kannanthara; Darren Griffiths; Mohammed Jahangir; Jonathan M. Jones; Chris J. Baker; Michail Antoniou; Colin J. Bell; Kai Bongs; Yeshpal Singh; Henry J White

doi:10.1049/rsn2.12399

Whole system radar modelling: Simulation and validation

Jithin Kannanthara^*, Darren Griffiths, Mohammed Jahangir, Jonathan M. Jones, Chris J. Baker, Michail Antoniou, Colin J. Bell, Kai Bongs, Yeshpal Singh, Henry J White

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Abstract

The ever-expanding horizon of radar applications demands solutions with high-end radar functionalities and technologies and is often limited by the available radar equipment, cost and time. A practical method to tackle the situation is to rely on the modelling and simulation of radar systems based on the user requirements. The comprehensive system-level modelling of a pulsed Doppler radar in MATLAB/Simulink consisting of all the fundamental blocks in the transmit chain, the environment, the receive chain, and the data processing chain is presented in this article. The first half of the article discusses the high-fidelity simulation of each building block in the radar model. In the second half of the article, the range-Doppler plot generated from the high-fidelity radar model is compared and validated using the range-Doppler plot from a real radar trial. The radar phase noise plays a crucial role in the detection of slowly moving, low radar cross-section targets in the presence of strong clutter. The article also briefly discusses the effects of radar oscillator phase noise in the range-Doppler plot. The validated, fully flexible radar model has the advantage of supporting the addition of further building blocks and optimising the parameters based on user requirements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1050-1060
Number of pages	11
Journal	IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
Volume	17
Issue number	6
Early online date	30 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12399
Publication status	Published - Jun 2023

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Acknowledgments:
This work was partly supported by the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensing and Timing (Project EP/T001046/1), European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (820404—IQ clock project), and BAE Systems I-CASE PhD. The authors would also like to thank Bill Stafford and Caitlin Percy (ex-members of BAE systems). Additionally, the authors would also like to thank Stephen Harman (Aveillant) and Aveillant Ltd.

Keywords

Doppler radar
modelling
Oscillators
phase noise
radar signal processing
thermal noise

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Whole system radar modelling: Simulation and validation

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