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Rol, M.P. (author), Nijboer, Ronald (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Electromagnetic (EM) waves propagate through the atmosphere where they are refracted depending on the composition of the atmosphere. This refraction highly influences the propagation of the EM-waves. Certain atmospheric conditions can cause EM-waves to get trapped within a duct. In these ducts blind zones may occur, where there is no EM-wave...conference paper 2022
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Correas Serrano, A. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Gonzalez-Huici, Maria (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A generic description for common multi-carrier radar receivers is proposed. Two multi-carrier waveforms - orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal time-frequency spacing (OTFS) - which could be used for joint radar and communication (JRC) applications - are considered. Sensing performances of different waveform...conference paper 2022
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Vaucher, Cicero S. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The sensing properties of the binary phase codes are investigated with their application to phase-coded (linearly) frequency modulated continuous waveform (PC-FMCW). It is shown that the ambiguity function of FMCW signal modulated with a binary phase code corresponds to sheared ambiguity function of the code itself. The range profiles of PC...conference paper 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A direction-finding approach for arrays with a limited number of antenna elements has been investigated. A method based on the harmonic analysis of the received signal has been proposed to solve it. The angle estimation accuracy has been improved by angle searching and peak detection. The proposed method is theoretically described and...conference paper 2022
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Roldan Montero, I. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The problem of extended target cross-section estimation has been considered. A two-step method based on the Total Variation Compressive Sensing theory has been proposed to solve it. First, a coarse estimation of the target cross-section is performed with classical beamforming methods, and then Compressive Sensing algorithms have been applied...conference paper 2022
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Sethuraman, H. Visvanathan (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The ability of a fully polarimetric radar to discriminate between payloads carried by UAVs is demonstrated. A novel approach has been employed in the feature extraction algorithm, where features from individual and combined polarimetric channels are extracted for classification. Decision and ensemble fusions on the respective extracted features...conference paper 2022
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Han, Y. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)This research aims to develop a contactless, radar-based sleep apnea detection method. A novel identification approach for this is proposed, based on the envelope of UWB radar spectrograms and machine learning. The envelope of the spectrogram is extracted by an image-based method, followed by signal smoothing via variational mode decomposition ...conference paper 2022
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Two receiver structures of phase modulated FMCW signals with low ADC sampling requirement are investigated, namely the matched filter of the dechirped signal and the group delay filter approach. The sensing performance of the investigated receiver strategies are analyzed in application to BPSK modulated chirp. Numerical simulations demonstrate...conference paper 2022
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Zhao, Yubin (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The need for technologies for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in home environments is becoming more and more urgent because of the aging population worldwide. Radar-based HAR is typically using micro-Doppler signatures as one of the main data representations, in conjunction with classification algorithms often inspired from deep learning...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Aubry, P.J. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The ambiguity problem of targets in Doppler beam sharpening (DBS) with forward-looking radar is considered. While DBS is proposed earlier to improve the angular resolution of the radar while keeping the antenna aperture size limited, such a solution suffers from ambiguities in the case of targets positioned symmetrically with respect to the...journal article 2022
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Puskely, J. (author), Mikulasek, Tomas (author), Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this article, a concept of a phased antenna array based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology for 5G base stations is proposed. The array has a cosecant radiation pattern in the vertical plane for uniform illumination in a sector area. The array itself consists of 16 SIW traveling wave subarrays of 12 slot-coupled microstrip...journal article 2022
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Wang, J. (author), Ding, Ming (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, the interference mitigation for Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar system with a dechirping receiver is investigated. After dechirping operation, the scattered signals from targets result in beat signals, i.e., the sum of complex exponentials while the interferences lead to chirp-like short pulses. Taking...journal article 2022
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Svenningsson, P.O. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Martone, Anthony F. (author)In this article, a statistical model of human motion as observed by a network of radar sensors is presented where knowledge on the position and heading of the target provides information on the observation conditions of each sensor node. Sequences of motions are estimated from measurements of instantaneous Doppler frequency, which captures...journal article 2022
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Yang, Ximei (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Human activities classification in assisted living is one of the emerging applications of radar. The conventional analysis considers micro-Doppler signatures as the chosen input for feature extraction or deep learning classification algorithms, or, less frequently, other radar data formats such as the range-time, the range-Doppler, or the...conference paper 2022
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Suvarna, Anusha Ravish (author), Koppelaar, Arie (author), Jansen, Feike (author), Wang, J. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)High angular resolution is in high demand in automotive radar. To achieve a high azimuth resolution a large aperture antenna array is required. Although MIMO technique can be used to form larger virtual apertures, a large number of transmitter-receiver channels are needed, which is still technologically challenging and costly. To circumvent this...conference paper 2022
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Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The encouraging potential of employing large-scale aperiodic base station arrays in addressing the radiation pattern and thermal requirements of the next generation communication systems is demonstrated. Sample 256-element layout-optimized multibeam arrays are presented as a futuristic view. The system benefits (in terms of the statistical...journal article 2022
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Schöpe, M.I. (author), Driessen, J.N. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The radar resource management problem in a multitarget tracking scenario is considered. The problem is solved using a dynamic budget balancing algorithm. It models the different sensor tasks as partially observable Markov decision processes and solves them by applying a combination of Lagrangian relaxation and policy rollout. The algorithm has a...journal article 2021
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Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Fonseca, Nelson J.G. (author), Angeletti, Piero (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Orthogonality in multibeam antennas is revisited. The difference between orthogonal beamforming and zero-forced beamforming is highlighted. The intriguing relation between orthogonality, reciprocity and losses is recapitulated. Different approaches on the design of orthogonal beamforming networks and implementation of zero-forced beamforming...journal article 2021
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Svenningsson, P.O. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, the classification of human activity from micro-Doppler spectrograms measured by a radar network is considered. To cope with differences between the training and test datasets due to changes in the set of participants, signal-to-noise ratio and polarimetry, domain adaptation is proposed. To realize this, linear mapping between the...conference paper 2021
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Roederer, A.G. (author), Puskely, J. (author), Aslan, Y. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)This paper discusses the advantages and an example of using shaped elevation patterns for 5G base stations. A simple iterative power synthesis method involving the phase of shaped patterns, and suitable for both center- and end-fed sub-arrays, is used. Numerical simulations and some experimental results for an array of linear sub-arrays with...conference paper 2021