Behind Corner Targets Location Using Small Aperture Millimeter Wave Radar in NLOS Urban Environment

Abstract

It is often difficult to detect the targets of interest via the line-of-sight (LOS) signals in the urban environment, since the LOS signals might be not available because of the presence of the walls. This article considers the target positioning problem via non-LOS signals using the single-input multiple-output small aperture millimeter wave radar. Assume that a target is located around a building corner and the geometric structure is known a priori. The phase comparison based algorithm is proposed, by exploiting the multipath propagation of the electromagnetic wave and the phase differences of the echoes among multiple channels. Finally, we validate the proposed algorithm via real data.

Keywords

• Urban environment
• NLOS multipath propagation signals
• SIMO millimeter wave radar
• target positioning