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Development and experimental validation of automatic radar recorder of the number and speed of vehicles for opposite traffic directions

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The designing of a continuous wave radar (CW) intended for remote counting of traffic (remote traffic counter) and speed measurement of vehicles using speed trajectories in the radar beam for long-range transferring of these data is considered. It was experimentally shown that, for recording the current number of vehicles and measuring the speed of each of them in both traffic directions, it is more expedient to use a CW radar rather than an FMCW radar (frequency modulation continuous wave radar). A CW radar is more immune to noises of the receiver and the interferences formed due to the offset of the phase and amplitudes at quadrature outputs of the IQ mixer, the lateral lobes of the antenna directivity diagram, and interfering reflections from low Doppler and stationary targets. The circuit and the signal processing software for the CW radar have been developed. The CW design proposed by the authors is currently implemented based on the Xilinx FPGA programmable logic integrated devices (PLD) entering the working radar prototype.

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  1. SAF Tehnika JSC, 24a, Ganibu dambis, Riga, LV-1005, Latvia

    A. V. Zelenkov, D. Liepkalns, A. Yershov & A. Maklakovs

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Zelenkov, D. Liepkalns, A. Yershov, A. Maklakovs, 2012, published in Avtomatika i Vychislitel’naya Tekhnika, 2012, No. 1, pp. 37–48.

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Zelenkov, A.V., Liepkalns, D., Yershov, A. et al. Development and experimental validation of automatic radar recorder of the number and speed of vehicles for opposite traffic directions. Aut. Conrol Comp. Sci. 46, 25–33 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411612010087

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