Hi Aaron,
I understand that you want to model a passive Radar Model scenario involving multiple UAVs and want to return the IQ signals at each UAV.
As correctly mentioned by you, the “radarTransceiver” object in MATLAB is designated to simulate only active Radar scenarios. However, for your scenario where you require only reception, you can use a combination of objects to obtain the IQ signals at each UAV like a passive model scenario. In this case, you can follow the steps below:
1.Use “phased.RadarTarget” to model the ground-based radars. This object allows you to specify the radar waveform, target properties, and simulate the received signals:
radar = phased.RadarTarget('OperatingFrequency', 10e9, ...)
2.Create a separate “phased.RadarTarget” object for each UAV. You can set the target properties for each UAV according to your requirements.
uav1 = phased.RadarTarget('OperatingFrequency', 10e9, ...);
uav2 = phased.RadarTarget('OperatingFrequency', 10e9, ...);
3.Use the “step” method of the “phased.RadarTarget” objects to simulate the received the IQ signals at each UAV.
iqSignalUAV1 = step(uav1, radar(x1, y1)); % x1, y1 represent the position of UAV1
iqSignalUAV2 = step(uav2, radar(x2, y2)); %x2, y2 represent the position of UAV2
Please know that you cannot use the “radarDataGenerator” object as it is primarily designed for synthetic data generation and does not provide the flexibility to set the sampling rate directly.
Please refer the following page for more information on “phased.RadarTarget” object and it’s use case scenarios:
I hope this helps!
