An Efficient Frequency and Phase Estimation Algorithm With CRB Performance for FMCW Radar Applications

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1868-1875

  Scherr, Steffen ^a   Ayhan, Serdal ^a   Fischbach, Benjamin ^a   Bhutani, Akanksha ^a   Pauli, Mario ^a   Zwick, Thomas ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cram r Rao bounds (CRBs); frequency modulation; radar measurements; radar signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MODULATION; RADAR; RADAR EQUIPMENT; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADAR SYSTEMS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; Z TRANSFORMS;

ACCURACY; CHIRP Z TRANSFORM; FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE RADARS; MEAN STANDARD DEVIATION; PHASE CALCULATION; PHASE ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS; PHASE EVALUATION; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 85027951778     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2381354     Document Type: Article

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