43 results about "Short range radar" patented technology

A vehicle and ladar sensor assembly system is proposed which makes use of forward mounted long range ladar sensors and short range ladar sensors mounted in auxiliary lamps to identify obstacles and to identify potential collisions with the vehicle. A low cost assembly is developed which can be easily mounted within a body panel cutout of a vehicle, and which connects to the vehicle electrical and computer systems through the vehicle wiring harness. The vehicle has a digital processor which interprets 3D data received from the ladar sensor assembly, and which is in control of the vehicle subsystems for steering, braking, acceleration, and suspension. The digital processor onboard the vehicle makes use of the 3D data and the vehicle control subsystems to avoid collisions and steer a best path.

A radar device has a long range radar sensor having a first transmission and receiving section for transmitting and receiving radio wave to a first detection range and a first signal processing section for detecting an object existing in the first detection range; a short range radar sensor having a second transmission and receiving section for transmitting and receiving a radio wave to a second detection range of which width is wider and of which distance is shorter than the first detection range and a second signal processing section for detecting an object existing in the second detection range; and a processing section for integrating information supplied from the first and second signal processing sections. And one of the long range radar sensor and the short range radar sensor stops a detection operation of the object to an overlapped range of both the detection ranges.

In a configuration according to a short-range radar of the present invention and a method of controlling the same, the timing at which a variable-period pulse output from a variable-period pulse generator including a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) has shifted in level first since reception of a search instruction is used as a reference timing, so that a signal that shifts in level at the reference timing or a fixed lapse of time later than the reference timing is generated and output as a transmission trigger signal, and a signal that shifts in level at a timing delayed by half a period of the variable-period pulse or its integral multiple from the timing at which the transmission trigger signal is output is generated and output as a reception trigger signal. With this, by varying beforehand frequency data of the DDS based on the relationship between the frequency data and delay time between transmission and reception stored in a memory, it is possible to vary delay time between the transmission trigger signal and the reception trigger signal. It is thus possible to arbitrarily vary the delay time between transmission and reception at a high time resolution by using a simple configuration and low power dissipation.

In order to detect and classify objects in a relatively small obstruction-filled space (e.g. underneath a vehicle), a sensing method and apparatus incorporating the use of at least two carefully selected transmission frequencies is provided. In embodiments where the transmission frequencies are radio frequencies, the sensing apparatus can be considered and analysed as a short-range radar system. Alternatively, if the transmission frequencies are acoustic, the sensing apparatus can be considered and analysed as a sonar-based system.