Presentation 2017-12-15
A Novel Iterative Inter-radar Interference Suppression Technique for Automotive FMCW Radars
Takuya Nozawa, Yuya Makino, Xiaoyan Wang, Masahiro Umehira, Hiroshi Kuroda,
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Abstract(in English) Research and development of advanced driver assistance and automated driving technologies have been actively conducted aiming at safer mobility. Millimeter wave FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) radar has several attractive features such as excellent detection performance in rainy weather and/or in dark or harsh environments and its low cost implementation, thus wide deployment of many radar sensors will result in significant inter-radar interference among a number of FMCW radars in near future. The inter-radar interference causes signal to noise ratio (SNR) degradation, resulting in miss-detection of targets. To solve this problem, we have proposed a time-domain interference detection and suppression scheme to improve SNR degradation caused by the inter-radar interference however, inter-radar interference among multiple FMCW radars with various received level and/or different chirp rate remains for further study. This report proposes a novel iterative interference detection and suppression technique which can suppress inter-radar interference among multiple FMCW radars with various received level and chirp rate and describes performance evaluation results by computer simulation.
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Keyword(in English) Automotive radar / FMCW radar / Iterative processing / Time-domain processing
Paper # WBS2017-75,ITS2017-52,RCC2017-91
Date of Issue 2017-12-07 (WBS, ITS, RCC)

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Committee ITS / WBS / RCC
Conference Date 2017/12/14(2days)
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Place (in English) Tiruru/Okinawa Jichikaikan
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Topics (in English) ITS Communications, Reliable Communication and Control, Rader and Sensing, etc.
Chair Takayoshi Yokota(Tottori Univ.) / Fumiaki Maehara(Waseda Univ.) / Shinsuke Hara(Osaka City Univ.)
Vice Chair Masahiro Fujii(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Tomotaka Wada(Kansai Univ.) / Masanori Hamamura(Kochi Univ. of Tech.) / Fumie Ono(NICT) / Kazunori Hayashi(Osaka City Univ.) / Ryu Miura(NICT)
Secretary Masahiro Fujii(Meiji Univ.) / Tomotaka Wada(Saitama Univ.) / Masanori Hamamura(Mitsubishi Electric) / Fumie Ono(Ibaraki Univ.) / Kazunori Hayashi(Kagawa Univ.) / Ryu Miura(Hokkaido Univ.)
Assistant Msataka Imao(ME) / Yanlei Gu(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kenshi Saho(Toyama Prefectural Univ.) / Kouichiro Hashiura(Akita Prefectural Univ.) / Akira Nakamura(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Ryohei Nakamura(National Defense Academy) / Toshinori Kagawa(NICT) / Kentaro Kobayashi(Nagoya Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Intelligent Transport Systems Technology / Technical Committee on Wideband System / Technical Committee on Reliable Communication and Control
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Novel Iterative Inter-radar Interference Suppression Technique for Automotive FMCW Radars
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Automotive radar
Keyword(2) FMCW radar
Keyword(3) Iterative processing
Keyword(4) Time-domain processing
1st Author's Name Takuya Nozawa
1st Author's Affiliation Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Yuya Makino
2nd Author's Affiliation Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Xiaoyan Wang
3rd Author's Affiliation Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
4th Author's Name Masahiro Umehira
4th Author's Affiliation Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
5th Author's Name Hiroshi Kuroda
5th Author's Affiliation Hitachi Automotive Systems, Lmd.(Hitachi Automotive Systems)
Date 2017-12-15
Paper # WBS2017-75,ITS2017-52,RCC2017-91
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) WBS-346,ITS-347,RCC-348
Page pp.pp.227-232(WBS), pp.227-232(ITS), pp.227-232(RCC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-12-07 (WBS, ITS, RCC)