Estimation of Angle of Arrival and Resolvable Multipath Components of an Ultra-Wideband Monopulse Radar

摘要

High range resolution is inherently provided with Ka-band ultra-wideband (UWB) vehicular radars. The authors have developed a prototype UWB monopulse radar equipped with a two-element receiving antenna array and reported its measurement results. In this paper, more detailed verification using the measurements is presented. The measurements were analyzed employing matched filtering and eigendecomposition, and then multipath components were extracted to examine the behavior of received UWB monopulse signals. Next, conventional direction finding algorithms based on narrowband assumption were evaluated using the extracted multipath components, resulting in acceptable angle-of-arrival (AOA) from the UWB monopulse signal regardless of wideband signals. Performance degradation due to a number of averaging of the received monopulses was also examined to design suitable radar's waveforms.