Statistical Modeling of Polarimetric RCS of Road Surfaces for Scattering Simulation and Optimal Antenna Polarization Determination

Incoherent backscattering of mm-waves from natural rough surfaces is considered. A novel method is proposed to determine the statistical properties of surface scattering from range profile measurements. The method is based on modeling the road surface as a grid of uncorrelated scattering elements, described by normalized scattering matrices....

Road Surface Conditions Identification via H α A Decomposition and Its Application to mm-Wave Automotive Radar

A novel approach based on the entropy-alpha-anisotropy decomposition, also known as the $H\alpha A$ decomposition, for the recognition of road surface conditions using automotive radar is presented. To apply the $H\alpha A$ decomposition to automotive radar data, a dedicated signal processing pipeline has been developed. To investigate its...

Continuous Human Activity Classification with Radar Point Clouds and Point Transformer Networks

Due to numerous benefits, radar is considered as an important sensor for human activity classification. The problem of classifying continuous sequences of activities of unconstrained duration has been studied in this work. To tackle this challenge, a radar data processing method utilizing point transformer networks has been proposed. The method...

Statistical Polarimetric RCS Model of an Asphalt Road Surface for mm-Wave Automotive Radar

A method for extracting fully polarimetric statistical properties of road surface radar cross sections is presented. This method is subsequently applied to extract radar cross section information from an asphalt road surface. Furthermore, an approach is introduced to synthesise the scattered signal of road surface returns as measured by a radar....

Classification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Carrying Payloads with Polarimetric Radar

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...

Deep Learning-based identification of human gait by radar micro-Doppler measurements

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 ...

Radar-PointGNN: Graph Based Object Recognition for Unstructured Radar Point-cloud Data

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...

Simulation of Radar Micro-Doppler Patterns for Multi-Propeller Drones

This paper presents a thin-wire electromagnetic (EM) model of multi-propeller drone that generates drone micro-Doppler pattern efficiently as a function of radar parameters and propeller properties. Experimental results of propeller micro-Doppler pattern measured in anechoic chamber was investigated and used to validate the results produced...

Noncontact Measurement of the Instantaneous Heart Rate in a Multi-person Scenario Using X-band Array Radar and Adaptive Array Processing

A noncontact measurement of the heart rate of a specific person using an X-band radar system with a four-element antenna array is presented. The system comprises a two-dimensional planar wide-beam antenna array with a four-channel network analyzer. The direction of arrival is estimated using the Capon method, and the directionally constrained...

Two-Port Dual-Band Microstrip Square-Ring Antenna for Radar Applications

A novel two-port, dual-band square-ring microstrip antenna element for wide-angle scanning planar phased array is proposed. The two ports are used to operate the antenna array over the L and S radar bands. Microstrip square-ring radiators are chosen due to their smaller dimensions compared to the conventional microstrip patch. To extend...

Radar micro-Doppler of wind turbines: Simulation and analysis using rotating linear wire structures

A simple electromagnetic model of wind-turbine's main structural elements as the linear wired structures is developed to simulate the temporal patterns of observed radar return Doppler spectra (micro-Doppler). Using the model, the micro-Doppler for different combinations of the turbines rotation frequency, radar pulse repetition frequency, and...