Technical solutions for automotive intermodulation radar for detecting vulnerable road users

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Viikari, Ville ^a   Kantanen, Mikko ^a   Varpula, Timo ^a   Lamminen, Antti ^a   Alastalo, Ari ^a   Mattila, Tomi ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Pursula, Pekka ^a   Saebboe, Jone ^b   Cheng, Shi ^c   Al Nuaimi, Mustafa ^c   Hallbjörner, Paul ^c   Rydberg, Anders ^c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TRIAD as Lilleström ^*  (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Harmonic radar; Road vehicle radar; Transponders; Wearable antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; BUILDING BLOCKES; DETECTION RANGE; HARMONIC RADAR; INTERMODULATION FREQUENCIES; MIXING ELEMENTS; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; RADAR REFLECTORS; ROAD USERS; ROAD VEHICLE RADAR; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS; INTERMODULATION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPONDERS; VEHICLES;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349705531     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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