Hypothesis test for the detection of moving targets in automotive radar

In this paper, we present a hypothesis test for the classification of moving targets in the sight of an automotive radar sensor. For this purpose, a statistical model of the relative velocity between a stationary target and the radar sensor has been developed. With respect to the statistical properties a confidence interval is calculated and targets with relative velocity lying outside this interval are classified as moving targets. Compared to existing algorithms our approach is able to give robust classification independent of the number of observed moving targets and is characterized by an instantaneous classification, a simple parameterization of the model and an automatic calculation of the discriminating threshold.