A RadarSimPy demo simulating a C-band SAR flyover of a parking lot: six real vehicle meshes ray-traced with mixed materials, chained multi-segment flights, and sliding-window Back-Projection imaging — showing how physically accurate ray tracing naturally produces real-world SAR artifacts like layover.
This notebook demonstrates a complete, end-to-end strip-map Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) simulation using RadarSimPy. Starting from first principles, it walks through waveform design, radar hardware modelling, raw-data generation, and image formation — producing a focused SAR image of three point targets via the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA).
This post demonstrates radar platform motion planning using RadarSimPy, showing how to simulate FMCW radar systems mounted on moving platforms (vehicles, drones, robots). You’ll learn to define arbitrary time-varying radar trajectories, understand how platform motion creates Doppler shifts on stationary targets, and analyze Range-Doppler maps for moving radar scenarios. The examples cover linear motion, complex… Read More »FMCW Radar with Motion Planning
Pulsed radar transmits short, intense radio pulses to detect and track objects by measuring the time it takes for echoes to return. It’s used in air traffic control, weather monitoring, military surveillance, and navigation. The illustration demonstrates a pulsed radar simulation using the RadarSimPy framework.
In this example, we demonstrate how the RadarSimPy framework can be applied to derive the Cross-Polarization and Co-Polarization RCS of a corner reflector.
RadarSimPy boasts a comprehensive collection of prevalent DoA algorithms and beamformers within its processing module. The following example adeptly showcases the practical application of these algorithms within the realm of a simulated MIMO FMCW radar scenario.
This illustration serves as a prime example of employing ray tracing to simulate the response of a MIMO imaging radar when exposed to a pre-defined 3D scene. This simulation harnesses the robust capabilities of the RadarSimPy framework. Additionally, it provides a fundamental demonstration of the radar signal processing techniques used to generate an image of… Read More »Imaging Radar
In this example, we will employ RadarSimPy’s ray tracing capabilities to demonstrate how vertical multipath effects from the ground can impact the received signal amplitude in an FMCW radar system.
In this demonstration, we harness the formidable ray tracing capabilities offered by RadarSimPy to simulate the micro-Doppler signature generated by a rotating turbine.
In this demonstration, we leverage the powerful ray tracing capability of RadarSimPy to simulate the intricate Doppler signatures induced by a rotating wind turbine. Additionally, we showcase the step-by-step process of plotting these Doppler signatures on a spectrogram, providing a visual representation of the frequency shifts caused by the turbine’s rotation.
