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Integration and testing of Radar Sensor
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Radar Concept and theory #1

Open cdpdyulabs opened 6 months ago

cdpdyulabs commented 6 months ago

Document the concept of Radar sensor, its working and how to tweek its performance. Upload a writeup for the same.

Krishgt commented 6 months ago

Basic Working Principle:

-In a basic radar system, a narrow beam of energy, called radio waves is transmitted from an antenna

-Between every pulse, a receiver is listening for waves that are traveling back to the antenna, as the waves strike objects in the atmosphere.

-By taking the time it took for the wave to return to the antenna, the distance towards the object from the antenna can easily be calculated.

-Radar systems use this technique to detect airplanes/objects in the sky and display points indicating where the objects are.

Doppler Effect:

-Doppler effect occurs when a source is moving relative to an observer.

-When a moving source is approaching an observer the frequency of the waves experienced by the observer is higher than the frequency of the source, - Blue shift

-Whereas when the source is moving away from an observer, the frequency of waves experienced by the observer is lower than the frequency of the source. - Red Shift

-If the object is stationary, the frequency of the reflected waves remains unchanged

-The change in frequency between the original source wave and the wave experienced by the observer is called the “doppler shift”.

Doppler radar:

-Doppler radar works by sending a beam of electromagnetic radiation waves from the transmitter, with a precise frequency, at a moving object.

-Once the electromagnetic radiation wave comes in contact with an object, it travels back towards the receiver.

-However, when the wave got reflected from the moving object, the wave now has a different frequency compared to the original frequency emitted.