Frequency modulated signal cancellation in variable power mode for radar applications

1. A radar sensing system comprising:

at least one transmitter configured for installation and use on a vehicle, and configured to transmit phase-modulated continuous wave radio signals;

at least one receiver configured for installation and use on the vehicle, and configured to receive radio signals that include (i) the transmitted radio signals transmitted by the at least one transmitter and reflected from objects in the environment, and (ii) interfering frequency-modulated radio signals transmitted by another radar sensing system;

a controller configured to control the at least one transmitter and the at least one receiver such that the at least one transmitter and the at least one receiver operate in alternating transmit and receive windows, wherein the transmit window and the receive window are separated in time;

wherein each receiver of the at least one receiver comprises a linear frequency modulation canceler configured to mitigate the interfering radio signals received by the associated receiver, such that the associated receiver is able to estimate a location of an object; and

wherein the linear frequency modulation canceler comprises a finite impulse response (FIR) filter and is configured as a 1-step linear predictor with least mean squares adaptation, wherein the prediction is subtracted from an FIR input signal to generate an error signal that drives the adaptation, and wherein the linear frequency modulation canceler generates the canceler output.

2. The radar sensing system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to control the adaptation on a first receiver, and wherein FIR coefficients for any other receivers of the at least one receiver are copied from the first receiver, wherein the adaptation is a FIR adaptation.

3. The radar sensing system of claim 1 , wherein the controller delays the adaptation such that transients at the start of each receive window are avoided.

4. The radar sensing system of claim 1 , wherein the FIR filter comprises a maximum of 15 taps.

5. The radar sensing system of claim 3 , wherein the controller is configured to delay the FIR adaptation until a delay line of the FIR filter has filled with valid signal samples, and further configured to perform a training pass to fill FIR filter coefficients with the samples before the FIR adaptation begins.

6. The radar sensing system of claim 5 , wherein the training pass is run backwards so that the FIR filter coefficients at the end of the training corresponds to a chirp frequency at the beginning of the receive window.

7. A method for mitigating frequency modulated interference in a radar sensing system, the method comprising:

providing a plurality of transmitters configured for installation and use on a vehicle;

providing a plurality of receivers configured for installation and use on the vehicle;

transmitting, with the transmitters, phase-modulated radio signals;

receiving, with the receivers, radio signals, wherein the received radio signals include (i) the transmitted radio signals transmitted by the transmitters and reflected from objects in the environment, and (ii) interfering frequency-modulated radio signals transmitted by another radar sensing system;

controlling the transmitters and the receivers such that the transmitters and the receivers operate in alternating transmit and receive windows, wherein the transmit windows are separated in time from the receive windows;

wherein each receiver of the plurality of receivers comprises a linear frequency modulation canceler; and

mitigating, with a linear frequency modulation canceler, the interfering radio signals received by an associated receiver, such that the associated receiver is able to estimate a location of an object; and

wherein the linear frequency modulation canceler comprises a finite impulse response (FIR) filter and is configured as a 1-step linear predictor with least mean squares adaptation, wherein the prediction is subtracted from an FIR input signal to generate an error signal that drives the adaptation, and wherein the linear frequency modulation canceler generates the canceler output.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising controlling the adaptation on a first receiver of the plurality of receivers, and copying FIR coefficients from the first receiver to the other receivers of the plurality of receivers, wherein the adaptation is a FIR adaptation.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the FIR filter comprises a maximum of 15 taps.

10. The method of claim 7 further comprising delaying the adaptation such that transients at the start of each receive window are avoided.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising delaying the adaptation until a delay line of the FIR filter has filled with valid signal samples, and performing a training pass to fill FIR filter coefficients with the samples before the adaptation begins.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the training pass is run backwards so that the FIR filter coefficients at the end of the training corresponds to a chirp frequency at the beginning of the receive window.

13. A radar sensing system comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit phase-modulated continuous wave radio signals;

a receiver configured to receive radio signals that include (i) the transmitted radio signals transmitted by the transmitter and reflected from objects in the environment, and (ii) interfering frequency-modulated radio signals transmitted by another radar sensing system;

a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver such that the transmitter and the receiver operate in alternating transmit and receive windows, wherein the transmit window and the receive window are separated in time;

wherein the receiver comprises a frequency modulation canceller configured to cancel a substantial portion of the interfering radio signals received by the receiver, such that the receiver is able to estimate a location of an object; and

wherein the frequency modulation canceler is a linear frequency modulation canceler, and wherein the linear frequency modulation canceler comprises a finite impulse response (FIR) filter and is configured as a 1-step linear predictor with least mean squares adaptation, wherein the prediction is subtracted from an FIR input signal to generate an error signal that drives the adaptation, and wherein the linear frequency modulation canceler generates the canceler output.

14. The radar sensing system of claim 13 , wherein the interfering radio signals are modulated with a linear frequency modulation.

15. The radar sensing system of claim 13 , wherein the controller delays the adaptation such that transients at the start of each receive window are avoided.

16. The radar sensing system of claim 13 , wherein the controller is configured to delay the FIR adaptation until a delay line of the FIR filter has filled with valid signal samples, further configured to perform a training pass to fill FIR filter coefficients with the samples before the FIR adaptation begins, and wherein the training pass is run backwards so that the FIR filter coefficients at the end of the training corresponds to a chirp frequency at the beginning of the receive window.