ASTAP - Coloured Transmission Demonstrator
The MS3 group has developed and built a demonstrator to experimentally verify the concepts of MIMO radar with coloured transmission. Its main components include an 8-channel arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), an 8-transmit/1-receive channels X-band RF frontend, a dedicated antenna array, and a digital sampling oscilloscope (DSO) as a means to collecting data.
Figure 1: Multichannel arbitrary waveform generator and digital sampling oscilloscope
8-channel AWG
- 4 x NI PXIe-7962R NI FlexRIO FPGA Module (Virtex-5 SX50T, 512MB RAM)
- 4 x AT 1212 14-bit, 1.2 GS/s, 2 Channel, DC-Coupled Analog Output Adapter Module for NI FlexRIO
- NI PXIe-6674T Timing and Synchronization Module with OCXO
- PXIe-1082, 8-Slot 3U PXI Express Chassis
- NI PXIe-PCIe8361 with MXI-Express for PXI Express
RF Front-End
Figure 2. Block-diagram of the ASTAP radar demonstrator RF front-end
Figure 3. 8 up / 1 down signal converter from AWG IF to X-band
Antenna array
Figure 4. X-band array that consists of series-fed patch arrays: 8 transmit (+2 dummy elements) and 1 receive columns
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Double Prizes at IEEE Radar Conference 2024
Last week brought us an excellent news for the MS3 group and Department from the IEEE Radar Conference 2024! Francesco Fioranelli and Ignacio Roldan got two prizes at the IEEE Radar Conference 2024: Francesco has received the IEEE AESS Fred Nathanson Award and Ignacio got the best student paper award for the joint paper with the IV (Intelligent Vehicles) group.