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Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Fonseca, Nelson J.G. (author), Angeletti, Piero (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)An innovative reconfigurable beamforming network concept for multiple high-gain agile and mutually zero-forced beam generation is proposed. Four-port couplers and variable phase shifters are used to synthesize the network. A 2 beam by 7 element beam former is designed and fabricated as proof of concept. A static scenario with the two beams...conference paper 2024
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Locatelli, A. (author), Alvarez-Perez, Jose Luis (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Multi-path propagation over asphalt road surfaces at automotive radar frequencies is studied. A new expression for the reflection coefficient from asphalt which takes into account asphalt surface roughness is proposed. The classic two-ray method to take into account the multi-path is improved using antenna radiation patterns and the antenna tilt...conference paper 2024
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Hehenberger, S.P. (author), Caizzone, Stefano (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The utilization of low-cost hybrid additive manufacturing equipment for creating a fully integrated patch antenna system is demonstrated. A miniaturized stacked dual-band patch antenna for GNSS applications with integrated feed, amplifier, matching, and bias network is considered. Design and manufacturing challenges due to the peculiarities of...conference paper 2024
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Onat, N.B. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Aslan, Y. (author)The sunflower array topology concept is introduced, for the first time, to the constrained infinitesimal dipole modeling (IDM) technique to increase the computational efficiency and reduce the modeling errors. The concept is applied to embedded element pattern predictions via matrix inversion. A novel study on the impact of the type and...conference paper 2024
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Bouwmeester, W. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)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....journal article 2024
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Krasnov, O.A. (author), Zhang, Q. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, the full calibration chain of FMCW radar with simultaneous transmission of two orthogonally polarized orthogonal waveforms is considered. Specifically for this type of polarimetric radar, compensation of signals’ biases and equalization of the amplification gains of the parallel polarimetric channels in the receiver are jointly...conference paper 2024
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Dash, T.K. (author), Driessen, J.N. (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The challenge of reconstructing the Doppler spectrum of a precipitation-like event observed by a fast-scanning weather radar is addressed. A novel method is proposed where the echo sequence in time is assumed to be a complex Gaussian process with a known covariance structure. It is a two-step approach where the first step is the estimation of...conference paper 2024
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Guendel, R.G. (author), Kruse, N.C. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this study, the problem of multipath in radar sensor networks for human activity recognition (HAR) has been examined. Traditionally considered as a source of additional clutter, the multipath is being investigated for its potential to be exploited through the creation of virtual radar nodes. These virtual nodes are conceptualized to...journal article 2024
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Dash, T.K. (author), Driessen, J.N. (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The problem of the limited accuracy of precipitation Doppler spectrum moments estimation measured by fast azimuthally scanning weather radars is addressed. A novel approach for the Doppler moment estimation based on maximum likelihood estimation is proposed. A simplified semianalytical parametric model for the precipitation power spectral...journal article 2024
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Hehenberger, S.P. (author), Caizzone, Stefano (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly recognized as an enabling technology for novel devices with increased functionality and bandwidth for microwave applications. However, due to the layer-by-layer build approach employed by most AM techniques, internal patterns are introduced to printed materials, which cause an effective anisotropy...journal article 2024
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Phase-coded frequency modulated continuous wave (PC-FMCW) radars for joint sensing and communication are considered. The sensing and communication performance of the two signal processing methods, phase lag compensated group delay filter and filter bank receivers, are compared. It is demonstrated that the phase lag compensated group delay...conference paper 2023
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Song, Yiyang (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Starting from numerical simulation and comparative analysis of different polarimetric detector algorithms using the proposed Gain of Detectability measure, this paper has validated the feasibility and accuracy of polarimetric detectors in scenarios with homogeneous clutter. These algorithms’ application to real radar data with non-homogeneous...conference paper 2023
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Haifawi, Hani (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), van der Meer, Rob (author)A new method to jointly detect and classify drones using a moving surveillance radar system (‘radar on-the-move’) and computer vision is presented. While most conventional counter-drone radar-based techniques focus on time-frequency distributions to obtain classification features, such approaches are limited in volumetric spatial coverage. To...conference paper 2023
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Roldan Montero, I. (author), Lamberti, Lucas (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The problem of single-snapshot direction of arrival (DoA) estimation with antenna arrays has been considered. A sectorized approach based on Bayesian Compressive Sensing (BCS) has been proposed. In this method, the angular space is discretized, defining many non-overlapping small grids which cover the desired large angular space. First, a BCS...conference paper 2023
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Kumbul, U. (author), Chen, Yue (author), Petrov, N. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Mutual interference in the frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is studied, and the influence of the FMCW interference on the beat frequency is analyzed. An analytical expression for the victim radar received signal spectrum is derived. Different interference scenarios are investigated by means of interference impact on the range...conference paper 2023
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Zhao, Changxu (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Aslan, Y. (author)Design of millimeter-wave arrays for base stations operating in dense urban environment is investigated. Innovative designs for linear subarrays with shaped beam patterns for hybrid beamforming are proposed. The number of elements and element spacings in the subarrays are optimally selected based on a pattern matching technique. The subarrays...conference paper 2023
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Birari, Natasha (author), Aslan, Y. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)An improved system-level power consumption model (PCM) for 5G base station multi-beam phased-array transmit architectures is developed. Using this model, it is shown that an optimum number of antenna elements of the array exists with respect to the total power consumption. The proposed model is benchmarked against a recent study which is shown...conference paper 2023
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Guo, Zhongyuan (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Radar-based Human Activity Recognition(HAR) is considered by using snapshots of point clouds. Such point cloudsinterpret 2D images generated by an mm-wave FMCW MIMO radar enriched byincluding Doppler and temporal information. We use the similarity between suchradar data representation and the core of the self-attention concept inartificial...conference paper 2023
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Carotenuto, V. (author), Aubry, A. (author), De Maio, A. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), van der Zwan, W.F. (author)This paper investigates the possibility of transmitting waveforms designed to enable spectral coexistence between radar and other Radio Frequency (RF) wireless systems via a Software Defined Radar (SDR). The design technique tested in this study nominally enables the placement of notches in the spectrum of the synthesized probing radar signal...conference paper 2023
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Van de Kreeke, N. (author), Aslan, Y. (author), Onat, N.B. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The effects of multipath on the statistical cell-edge user service quality is for the first time investigated for mm-wave multi-user communication systems. The focus is given on setting the user spacing constraints and the transmit array topology via thinning, which can be used to enhance wireless security or decrease analog/digital complexity....conference paper 2023