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A Blender-based channel simulator for FMCW Radar

Signal Processing 2023-07-19 v1

Abstract

Radar simulation is a promising way to provide data-cube with effectiveness and accuracy for AI-based approaches to radar applications. This paper develops a channel simulator to generate frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) waveform multiple inputs multiple outputs (MIMO) radar signals. In the proposed simulation framework, an open-source animation tool called Blender is utilized to model the scenarios and render animations. The ray tracing (RT) engine embedded can trace the radar propagation paths, i.e., the distance and signal strength of each path. The beat signal models of time division multiplexing (TDM)-MIMO are adapted to RT outputs. Finally, the environment-based models are simulated to show the validation.

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@article{arxiv.2307.09226,
  title  = {A Blender-based channel simulator for FMCW Radar},
  author = {Yuan Liu and Moein Ahmadi and Johann Fuchs and Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi and M. R. Bhavani Shankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09226},
  year   = {2023}
}

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