In order to protect humans from threats that are difficult to detect while driving or sailing, information on the surrounding situations must be secured in advance to prevent accidents. In addition, autonomous vehicles or intelligent robots that are s...
In order to protect humans from threats that are difficult to detect while driving or sailing, information on the surrounding situations must be secured in advance to prevent accidents. In addition, autonomous vehicles or intelligent robots that are still under study today must be able to detect them in advance in order to judge and move according to their surroundings. Accordingly, research has been conducted on the technique of estimating the position of objects using sensors such as radars. One of the values required for positioning is the direction of arrival(DOA) information of the radar signal reflected on the target. This information is estimated based on the phase difference that occurs in the received signals due to the interval between the antennas. To estimate not only azimuth angle but also elevation angle, a two-dimensional array antenna is required.
However, in the beam pattern of the array antenna, there is a grating lobe having the same size as the main lobe. This lobe can cause to capture the ghost targets that are not the actual targets, thereby causing troubles in estimating the target’s DOA. Although there is one method using minimum redundancy array antenna structure for solving these grating lobe problems, few studies have applied the method in two dimensions. Therefore, a new two-dimensional array antenna structure applying the minimum redundancy array method is presented in this study, and its performance is compared and analyzed with the cases of other two-dimensional array antenna.