A DS-UWB Radar System With a Short Correlation Processing Time

Conference: European Wireless 2013 - 19th European Wireless Conference
04/16/2013 - 04/18/2013 at Guildford, UK

Proceedings: European Wireless 2013

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Lee, Youngpo; Shim, Jeongyoon; Lee, Youngseok; Lee, Jaewoo; Yoon, Seokho (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea)

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a direct sequence ultra wideband (DS-UWB) radar system which estimates a distance between the radar and an object with a short correlation processing time. Unlike conventional DS-UWB radar systems using multiple variable length pseudo noise (PN) sequences, the proposed radar employs a short-length PN sequence reducing the correlation processing time by virtue of correlation accumulation which averages out the noise in the correlator outputs. Numerical results show that the proposed DS-UWB radar estimates the distance with a shorter correlation processing time while providing a better estimation performance compared with the conventional DS-UWB radar systems.