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Real-Time Radar, Target, and Environment Simulator

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In this work, a real-time radar target and environment simulator (RTSim) is presented. RTSim provides a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test system for radar signal processing units (RSPU). RTSim provides repeatable experiments for radar developers in digitally controlled but complex environments. Moreover, it reduces the development costs by limiting expensive field tests. RTSim consists of three main components; a control computer that provides the user interface and scenario generation software, embedded processors for environment calculations, and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for baseband radar signal generation. In hardware-in-the-loop operation scenario RTSim and RSPUs work in synchronization. RSPU sends the parameters of current pulse burst to RTSim and it generates baseband IQ signals using these parameters and user programmed environment parameters obtained from scenario generation software. RTSim can generate return signals for targets, jammers, clutter, and system noise. The generated baseband signals are sent to RSPU over fiberoptic lines.

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This work was supported in part by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK, with grant no. TEYDEB-3120651.

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    Halit Ergezer, M. Furkan Keskin & Osman Gunay

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  1. Dept. of Computer & Info Science, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  2. Faculty of Engg school of ECE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Tuncer Ören

  3. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Sys Rese Insti of Polish Academy of Sci, Warsaw, Poland

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Appendix: Hardware Components of RTSim

Appendix: Hardware Components of RTSim

Hardware components of RTSim (white rack) and interface simulator for RSPUs (gray rack) is shown in Fig. 18. RSPU interface simulator is developed to test RTSim before integration with actual radar systems.

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Ergezer, H., Furkan Keskin, M., Gunay, O. (2015). Real-Time Radar, Target, and Environment Simulator. In: Obaidat, M., Ören, T., Kacprzyk, J., Filipe, J. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 402. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26470-7_11

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