JNTUK B.Tech Radar Systems gives you detail information of Radar Systems R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
OBJECTIVES
The student will be introduced to
- the knowledge of different Antennas systems and communication equipment required for the operation of RADAR.
- different parameters of Transmitter and Receiver of RADAR
- the concept of Doppler Effect to measure parameters of RADAR.
- different types of RADARS and applications based on the type of Transmitters, Receivers, and their functions.
- Pre requisites: Antennas and wave propagation; Electromagnetics and Communications
UNIT – I: Introduction: Nature of Radar. Maximum Unambiguous Range. Radar Waveforms, Simple form of Radar Equation, Radar Block Diagram and Operation, Radar Frequencies and Applications. Related Problems. Radar Equation: Prediction of Range Performance, Minimum Detectable Signal, Receiver Noise and SNR, Integration of Radar Pulses, Radar Cross Section of Targets (simple targets-sphere, cone-sphere). Transmitter power.
UNIT – II : PRF and Range Ambiguities, System Losses (Qualitative treatment). Related Problems. CW and Frequency Modulated Radar: Doppler effect, CW Radar – Block Diagram, Isolation between Transmitter and Receiver, Non-zero IF Receiver, Receiver Bandwidth Requirement, Applications of CW radar. FM- CW Radar, Range and Doppler Measurement, Block Diagram and Characteristics (Approaching/ Receding Targets), FM-CW altimeter, Measurement Errors, Multiple Frequency CW Radar.
UNIT – III : MTI and Pulse Doppler Radar: Introduction, Principle, MTIR Radar with- Power Amplifier Transmitter and Power Oscillator Transmitter, Delay Line Cancellers – Filter Characteristics, Blind Speeds, Double Cancellation staggered PRFs. Range Gated Doppler Filters. MTI Radar Parameters, Limitations to MTI Performance. Non-coherent MTI, MTI versus Pulse Doppler Radar. Tracking Rader : Tracking with Rader, Sequential Lobing, Conical Scan, Mono-pulse Tracking.
UNIT – IV : Rader Amplitude Comparison Mono-pulse (one – and two –coordinates), Phase Comparison Mono-pulse. Target Reflection Characteristics and Angular Accuracy. Tracking in Range Acquisition and Scanning Patterns. Comparison of Trackers. Radar Antennas – Antenna Parameters, Reflector Antennas, Lens Antennas, Lens Antennas Cosecant- Squared Antenna Pattern, Radomes.
UNIT- V : Electronically Steered Phased Array Antennas, Phase Shifters, Frequency – scan Arrays, Radiation for Phased Array, Architecture for Phased Arrays. Detection of Radar Signals in Noise: Introduction, Matched Filter Receiver – Response Characteristics and Derivation, Correlation detection, Detection criteria, Detector Characteristics, Automatic Detection, Constant False Alarm
Rate Receiver
UNIT – VI : Radar Receivers – Noise Figure and Noise Temperature. Displays – types. Duplexer – Branch type and Balanced type, Circulators as Duplexers. Introduction to Phased Array Antennas- Basic Concepts, Radiation Pattern. Beam Steering and Beam Width changes, Series versus Parallel Feeds. Applications, Advantages and Limitations.
TEXT BOOKS
- Introduction to Radar Systems – Merrill I. Skolnik, SECOND EDITION, McGraw – Hill, 1981.
- Radar Engineering and fundamentals of Navigational Aids-G.S.N.Raju, I.K International, 2008.
REFERENCES
- Introduction to Radar Systems – Merrill I. Skolnik, THIRD EDITION, Tata McGraw –Hill, 2001.
- Radar: Principles, Technologies, Applications- Byron Edde, Pearson Education.
OUTCOMES
After going through this course the student will be able to
- Acquire the knowledge to apply and to design required parameters for a RADAR system.
- Apply the techniques learned, to choose suitable RADAR from the available, for the required application.
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