US 12,117,515 B2
Fractalet radar processing
Daniel Flores Tapia, Fairfield, CA (US)
Assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/833,083.
Prior Publication US 2023/0393257 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G01S 13/32 (2006.01); G01S 7/35 (2006.01); G01S 13/34 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 13/325 (2013.01) [G01S 7/354 (2013.01); G01S 13/342 (2013.01); G01S 13/347 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radar apparatus comprising:
a control system coupled with sensor systems and with kinematic control systems, the control system to:
receive a reference fractalet waveform from a radio detection and ranging (RADAR) frequency transmission architecture, wherein the fractalet waveform includes self-similar waveforms comprising a first plurality of lower frequency bands and a second plurality of higher frequency bands;
decode a reflected fractalet waveform received via one or more antennae;
compare a waveform profile of chirplet transforms of signals in the first plurality of lower frequency bands within the reflected fractalet waveform to the reference fractalet waveform;
determine one or more time spans corresponding to the subset of lower frequency bands;
extract signals from the second plurality of higher frequency bands from the reflected fractalet waveform;
determine chirplet transforms for the extracted signals from the second plurality of higher frequency bands in the reflected fractalet waveform for the one or more determined time spans; and
calculate spatial frequency components along an azimuth direction and along an elevation direction for one or more targets based on the chirplet transforms for the extracted signals from the second plurality of higher frequency bands.