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AbstractThis paper presents the development results of In this paper, a SDR platform development is presented
the software-defined radar (SDR) platform testbed. The SDR with the performance test results for a micro motion
platform consists of a RF and digital hardware modules as detection. Architecture of the SDR platform testbed are
well as reconfigurable software module. As a test result, the introduced in Section II, and the performance test
spectrogram analysis shows that the micro-Doppler
procedure is in Section III. The test results are discussed in
signature of the small pendulum motion can be accurately
detected and discriminated using the developed SDR Section IV, and finally conclusions are made in section V.
platform testbed.
II. ARCHITECTURE OF SDR PLATFORM TESTBED
Index TermsSoftware Defined Radar (SDR), radar
system design, micro Doppler detection The SDR system consists of a general RF module
and a reconfigurable software module. Radar
I. INTRODUCTION components, such as mixers, filters, modulators,
Software defined radar (SDR) has many advantages in demodulators, and detectors, have been constructed in
achieving a multipurpose radar system by re-using the RF the hardware. The components are implemented using
and signal processor hardware with a programmable software on a PC, DSP or FPGA in SDR. The block
software. Due to its high flexibility, SDR platform can diagram of SDR testbed is presented in Figure 1.
perform various detection functions using a software Antenna and RF module are located in the analog signal
programming because the system is composed of the domain. Signal processor module and software module are
reconfigurable hardware. Thus SDR makes faster located in the digital signal domain. In this SDR platform
development and lower production costs in the radar development, RF module and signal processing module
markets where conventional radars are dedicated to the can be combined to form a transceiver. Detailed block
fixed mission and also relatively expensive. Based on the diagram of SDR transceiver is shown in Figure 2. RF
potential capability of SDR, its applications can be module consists of mixer, VCO PLL, BPF, LNA and
extended to various functions such as human motion, amplifier. Signal processing module consists of DAC,
detection, security, traffic monitoring, collision avoidance, ADC, DSP and FPGA.
and micro motion detection [1] [ 2] [ 3] [4].
Fig. 1. Block diagram of SDR platform testbed Fig. 2. Detailed block diagram of SDR transceiver
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Figure 3 shows the detailed S-band RF module which is Table I shows the characteristics of the SDR platform
divided into two channels of transmitter chain and receiver testbed. Reconfigurable capability enables user to generate
chain. Particularly, the receiver channel has a two input ports various waveform and apply various signal processing
from the antenna in order to use for the mono-static as well as algorithms depending on the various applications.
bi-static mode of radar operation in the particular radar Table II shows the key specifications of the SDR testbed.
environment. Figure 4 shows the detailed digital signal For this micro Doppler experimental application, the main
processing module which consists of direct IF receiver and frequency is selected to S-band of 2.4 GHz range and its
waveform generator, and signal processor board. The IF bandwidth is 25MHz. The output power is limited to 10 mW
frequency of 70MHz is directly sampled and separated into the for the short range detection, along with the small patch
I/Q channels in the digital domain. The waveform generator antenna gain of 8 dBi. The CW waveform is used for the micro
uses a DDS chip enabling to generate the arbitrary CW and Doppler detection. The signal processor can receive the IF
Pulse waveforms. The signal processor board using DSP and frequency of 70MHz for direct digitization to generate the I/Q
FPGA is connected to the host PC through the high speed signal in the processing board.
Gigabit Ethernet. The operation mode can be displayed on the
monitor with GUI for user interface.
TABLE I. CHARACTERISTICS OF SDR PLATFORM TESTBED
Gain 8 dBi
Antenna
Beam Width 70r
Frequency Range 24002483.5 MHz
RF Module Pulse
Bandwidth 25 MHz
Mode
Output power 10 mW
Tx Frequency 200 MHz
Rx Frequency 70 MHz
Fig. 4. Detailed block diagram of Signal Processor Module Dynamic Range 80dBc
Dual ARM Cortex-
Processor Core
A9
G
Fig. 5. Hardware implement of SDR platform Testbed
V. CONCLUSION
The development of the SDR platform testbed is presented
with the micro Doppler test performance. As a result, the
spectrogram analysis shows that the micro-Doppler signature
can be accurately detected and discriminated using the
pendulum micro motion of the metallic sphere hanged with the
cylinder motion target. It is verified that small micro motion
embedded in large motion target can be discriminated through
the spectrogram analysis.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was partly supported by the ICT R&D program
of MSIP/IITP (No. 14911-01004, SDR Radar Sensor Platform
Development) .
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