Abstract With the development of high speed digital processor and solid state power electronics, more flexible waveforms become feasible to achieve by modern radar systems. In fact, the choice of waveforms has a significant impact on the performance of radar systems. In this paper, we review the conventional radar waveform design as well as explore the new generation of waveforms via different theoretical methods, including the most recent wavelet based waveforms. It is shown that the waveform design supports the radar advancement for more intelligent and divergent applications. In this endeavor, radar waveform design plays an even more important role in reaching specific purposes, in addition to range and speed detections, and further improves the performance and application scopes of radar systems.
About author: Mr. Cao Si-yang was born in Urumchi, China. He received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Xidian University, Shaanxi, China, in 2007, and the M.S. degree in circuits and system from South China University of Technology, Guangdong, China, in 2010. He is currently working toward the Ph. D. degree in the Department of Electrical and computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. His research interests include radar waveform design, synthetic aperture radar, cognitive radar, and signal processing with emphasis on radar signals. E-mail: cao.151@osu.edu
Professor Zheng Yuan-fang was born in Shanghai, China. He studied as a graduate student at the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science from 1978 to 1979. He then studied and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Professor Zheng received his B.S. degree from the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 1970. From 1984 to 1989, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. Since August 1989, Professor Zheng has been with The Ohio State University, where he is currently Winbigler Professor and served as the Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1993 to 2004. Between 2004 and 2008, Professor Zheng served as Dean, on a part-time basis, of the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. Professor Zheng received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from Ronald Reagan in 1986, and was elected to IEEE Fellow in 1997. His research interests are in wavelet based image processing and radar waveform studies, and sensor integrated robotic systems. E-mail: zheng.5@osu.edu
Cite this article:
Cao Si-yang,Zheng Yuan-fang. Recent Developments in Radar Waveforms (in English)[J]. JOURNAL OF RADARS, 2014, 3(5): 603-621.
2014, Vol. 3 
