Design of LMS Adaptive Radar Detector for Non-homogeneous Interferences

ABSTRACT The recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in the demand for superior performance of radar signal processor. The main challenge in a radar system is to maintain the probability of a false alarm rate constant even under an uncertain time-varying clutter environment. The objective of this paper is to develop a method for enhanced clutter/interference suppression by redesigning the radar detector in such a way to emphasize the target response and de-emphasize the clutter response. To achieve this, we have proposed a hardware architecture that implements least mean square algorithm-based adaptive filter along with a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) technique for the purpose of better detection of target under a non-homogeneous clutter environment. An adaptive design of the CFAR-filter technique has been used to improve probability of detection by increasing signal-to-noise ratio. The efficacy of the proposed architecture is corroborated with MATLAB simulations and hardware synthesis.

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