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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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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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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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Zhao, Yubin (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The feasibility of classifying human activities measured by a distributed ultra-wideband (UWB) radar system using Range-Doppler (RD) images as the input to classifiers is investigated. Kinematic characteristics of different human activities are expected to be captured in high-resolution range-Doppler images measured by UWB radars. To construct...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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Petrov, N. (author), Yiğit, Erkut (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The paper presents the statistical analysis of trihedral corner reflectors RCS in presence of mass production and installation errors. It is shown that the degradation of RCS from its nominal value can be modeled by Beta distribution. The derived probability density functions (PDF) of corner reflector RCS is further exploited to design an...conference paper 2022
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Bouwmeester, W. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A method to compute road surface signatures in the automotive scenario is presented. This method is subsequently applied to a rough asphalt surface without undulations. It is shown that, due to the observation geometry, the road surface signature experiences significant spreading along the Doppler-axis, resulting in a distinct range-Doppler map...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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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
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Ahmed, Sheeraz (author), Aubry, P.J. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, a novel multi-channel waveform agile radar testbed - ASTAP (Advanced Space-Time Adaptive Processing) with eight transmit channels and a single receive channel to form a co-located Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) radar is presented. Based on current configuration, the ASTAP radar system possesses agility for synthesizing and...conference paper 2021
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Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A novel stepped-amplitude aperiodic phased array synthesis method is proposed. The presented technique is based on iterative convex element position perturbations and uses pre-defined excitation amplitudes. A 64-element irregular array with two discrete amplitude levels (0.5 at the edge-elements and 1 at the center-elements) is synthesized for...conference paper 2021
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), van der Zwan, W.F. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The phase coded FMCW and its properties for joint sensing and communication are studied. Two different receiver structures for the sensing properties of this waveform are compared theoretically and experimentally. It is shown both by simulations and experiments that the phased coded FMCW combines communication capabilities of PMCW and sensing...conference paper 2021
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Unterhorst, M. (author), Gambi, Ennio (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Continuous Activities of Daily Living (ADL) recognition in an arbitrary movement direction using five distributed pulsed Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radars in a coordinated network is proposed. Classification approaches in unconstrained activity trajectories that render a more natural occurrence for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are investigated....conference paper 2021
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Svenningsson, P.O. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Perception systems for autonomous vehicles are reliant on a comprehensive sensor suite to identify objects in the environment. While object recognition systems in the LiDAR and camera modalities are reaching maturity, recognition models on sparse radar point measurements have remained an open research challenge. An object recognition model is...conference paper 2021
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Su, Guigeng (author), Petrov, N. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, we propose a method for continuous monitoring of vital signs-in particular, respiration frequency-with a commercial mm-wave radar. The nearly constant frequency (NCF) model is adopted to represent chest displacement due to respiration and simulate radar response. Based on this model, an extended Kalman filter (EKF) based...conference paper 2021
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Papanastasiou, V. S. (author), Trommel, R. P. (author), Harmanny, R. I.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)For the first time identification of human individuals using micro-Doppler (m-D) features measured at X-band has been demonstrated. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have been used to perform classification. Inspection and visualization of the classification results were performed using Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection ...conference paper 2021
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, we investigate the classification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) by using a pulsed ultra-wideband radar. Specifically, we focus on contiguous activities that can be inseparable in time and share a common transition, such as walking and falling. The range-time data domain is deliberately exploited to determine transitions from...conference paper 2020