ECE 492/592: Intro to Radar Systems

Description:

Introduction to basic principles of radar; radar range equation, phenomenology (target reflectivity models, clutter, stealth and scattering), radar measurements of range and velocity, basic radar waveforms, pulse compression, coherency.  Radar system design with low-cost, low-power radio frequency (RF) sensors for applications such as health monitoring, human-computer interaction, and cyber-physical human systems. Hands-on experience will be gained through lab experiments/projects conducted using software-defined CW/FMCW radars.

Recommended Pre-Requisites:

ECE 211/ECE 331 Circuit Analysis and ECE 301 Linear Systems (or equivalents)

Textbooks:

  • Primary: Principles of Modern Radar, volume 1: Basic Principles (Richards, Scheer, Holm)
  • Fun to Read: Introduction to Airborne Radar (George Stimpson)

Topics:

1. Radar History

2. Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Matter

3. Radar Range Equation (Point Target and Distributed)

4. Radar Clutter Modeling

5. Radar Cross Section (RCS)

6. Basic Radar Measurements and Transmit Waveforms

7. FMCW Radar and Stretch Processing

8. Micro-Doppler: Time-Frequency Analysis of Radar Data

9. Statistical Modeling of Signals and Radar Target Detection

10. Synthetic Aperture Radar

11. Cognitive (Fully-Adaptive) Radar

12. Applications to Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS)

   

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