Summer School 2018 Uni Nacional, Bogotá

Components, Circuits, and Systems a. TEM-Probes

for b. Two-wire probes
c. Special Probes
Industrial Radar Applications
Duration: 4 h per day, d. Ground Tracking

Monday – Radar Basics

Wednesday – Frequency Domain Systems
1. Motivation
a. What is radar? 1. FMCW-radar
b. Historical Aspects and a. Basic idea and block diagram
modern radar applications b. Signal theory
2. Primary and secondary Radar c. Accuracy, Cramer Rao Lower
Parameters Bound
a. Radar equation d. Detailed circuit: Frequency
b. Radar Cross section doubler
c. Acquisition time and TOF e. Distance compensation Filter
d. Range and azimuth techniques
resolution f. Industrial realization
e. Reproducibility
f. Sigma-Delta Estimation 2. MATLAB Hands On Part
3. Basic circuitry a. Radar Simulator
a. Mixer, parametric approach, b. FMCW Signal Processing
balanced two diode mixer Thursday – Antennas
b. Hands on part: Coupler
simulation (AWR) 1. Basic terms and definitions
2. Nearfield –Farfield Transformation
Tuesday – Time Domain Systems 3. Antenna Ringing
1. Baseband pulse systems 4. Radar-Antennas
a. Direct Sampling baseband 5. Antenna systems for close range
radar and simple: Pulse operation
generator Signal processing 6. Hands on Part: Antenna simulation
and Gravity Center (CST Microwave Studio)
Evaluation
b. Direct sampling, carrier Friday – Advanced Radar Applications
modulated pulse radar: LO
design, AD-converter 1. Time-of-Flight measurements
c. Direct sampling, carrier 2. Permittivity theory
modulated pulse radar with 3. Permittivity mixing
IQ-receiver 4. Radar based gas-pressure
2. Time-Spread pulse radar system measurements
a. Block diagram, Signal theory 5. Velocity measurement: Doppler Effect
b. Phase Lock Loops: Simple and transversal Doppler
and Special signal generation 6. Velocity measurement: correlation
c. Detailed circuit: Coupler based methods
3. Baseband Probes in industrial appl. 7. Hands-On-Measurements
(inkl: 3D EM Simulations)

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Baer Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany