Research on Development 3D Ground Penetrating Radar Acquisition and Control Technology for Road Underground Diseases with Dual-Band Antenna Arrays

This paper describes the development of a new 3D ground-penetrating radar (GPR) acquisition and control technology for road underground diseases with dual-band antenna arrays. The 3D GPR system can be mounted on a vehicle-loading device and used by vehicles to detect road underground diseases at regular speeds. Compared with existing 3D GPR systems, this new type of 3D GPR has the following design features: it has dual-band antenna arrays, including a 16-channel 400 MHz antenna array and an 8-channel 200 MHz antenna array, which not only improves the detection efficiency, but also effectively balances the detection depth and detection resolution. A novel antenna switching method for time division step multiplexing (TDSM) is realized via field programmable gate array (FPGA), which not only avoids the crosstalk of antenna echo signals of different frequencies, but also ensures the interval of the same antenna working time. By combining the advantages of the FPGA and micro-control unit (MCU), and utilizing the high-speed transmission of the network port, the high-speed real-time transmission of the 3D GPR echo data is achieved. Finally, the integration of all software and hardware verified the correctness of the system, with good results.