This paper addresses the problem of mutual interference between automotive radars. This problem is getting more attention with an increase in the number of radar systems used in traffic. An adaptive digital beamforming technique is presented here which suppresses the interference without the exact knowledge of the interfering signal's Direction of Arrival (DoA). The proposed technique is robust and does not rely on any calibration for the interference cancellation. The adaptive interference suppression method is evaluated using a simulated scenario. Up to about 20-23 dB improvement in the target Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) is measured in the simulation and a better detection performance is achieved using the proposed interference suppression technique. © 2018 IEEE.

Automotive radars have become an important part of sensing systems in vehicles and other traffic applications due to their accuracy, compact design, and robustness under severe light and weather conditions. The increased use of radars in various traffic applications has given rise to the problem of mutual interference, which needs to be mitigated. In this paper, we investigate interference mitigation in chirp sequence (CS) automotive radars via signal reconstruction based on autoregressive (AR) models in fast-and slow-time. The interference is mitigated by replacing the disturbed baseband signal samples with samples predicted using the estimated AR models. Measurements from 77 GHz frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) static and moving radars are used to evaluate the signal reconstruction performance in terms of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), peak side-lobe level (PSLL), and mean squared error (MSE). The results show that the interference is suppressed down to the general noise floor, leading to an improvement in the SINR. Additionally, enhanced side-lobe suppression is achieved via AR signal reconstruction, which is compared to a commonly used inverse-cosine method. Furthermore, the paper notes that the slow-time signal reconstruction can be more beneficial for interference suppression in certain scenarios. CCBY

Mutual interference between automotive radars can make it difficult to detect targets, especially the weaker ones, such as cyclists and pedestrians. In this paper, the interference suppression performance of a Least Mean Squares (LMS) algorithm-based adaptive beamformer is evaluated using measurements from a 77 GHz Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar in an outdoor environment. It is shown that the adaptive beamformer increases detection performance and that the interference is suppressed down to the noise floor of the radar in the Range-Doppler domain. In the paper, real baseband sampling and complex-baseband sampling (IQ) radar receivers are compared in the context of interference suppression. The measurements show that IQ receivers are more beneficial in the presence of interference.

As driver assistance systems and autonomous driving are on the rise, radar sensors become a common device for automobiles. The high sensor density leads to the occurrence of interference, which decreases the detection capabilities. Here, digital beamforming (DBF) is applied to mitigate such interference. A DBF system requires a calibration of the different receiving channels. It is shown how this calibration completely changes the DBF beam pattern required to cancel interferences, if the system has no IQ receiver. Afterward, the application of DBF on a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is investigated. It is shown that only the real aperture and not the virtual one can be used for interference suppression, leading to wide notches in the pattern. However, for any target the large virtual aperture can be exploited, even if interferers are blinded out. Moreover, the wide notches for interference suppression of the real aperture appear narrow in the virtual aperture for target localization. The results are verified by measurements with time-multiplexing MIMO radar.