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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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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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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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Onat, N.B. (author), Roldan Montero, I. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Aslan, Y. (author)Efficient prediction of embedded element patterns (EEPs) is including the mutual coupling (MC) effects in the optimization of irregular planar arrays is studied for the first time in the literature. An ANN-based methodology is used to predict the pattern of each element in the whole visible space for a flexible planar array topology in...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
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Hehenberger, S.P. (author), Caizzone, Stefano (author), Thurner, Stefan (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Additive manufactured structured dielectrics with engineered permittivity tensors are promising tools for novel microwave components and are drawing increasing attention from researchers. However, design modeling and experimental verification of anisotropic materials are challenging and have not yet been thoroughly explored in the literature. In...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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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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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), 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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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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Fioranelli, F. (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Kruse, N.C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Driven by its contactless sensing capabilities and the lack of optical images being recorded, radar technology has been recently investigated in the context of human healthcare. This includes a broad range of applications, such as human activity classification, fall detection, gait and mobility analysis, and monitoring of vital signs such as...conference paper 2023
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Ullmann, I. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Radar-based human activity recognition in crowded environments using regression approaches is addressed. Whereas previous research has focused on single activities and subjects, the problem of continuous activity recognition involving up to five individuals moving in arbitrary directions in an indoor area is introduced. To treat the problem, a...conference paper 2023
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Zhu, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The problem of 2D instantaneous ego-motion estimation for vehicles equipped with automotive radars is studied. To leverage multi-dimensional radar point clouds and exploit point features automatically, without human engineering, a novel approach is proposed that transforms ego-motion estimation into a weighted least squares (wLSQ) problem using...conference paper 2023
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Kruse, N.C. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)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...conference paper 2023
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Bouwmeester, W. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The convergence of polarimetric scattering parameters and H, α and A features of road surfaces under various conditions is analysed. It is shown that the number of radar measurements used for surface classification can be traded off with accuracy of the estimation of the mean value and covariance of S-parameters and H, α and A features....conference paper 2023
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Yuan, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The ambiguity problem in forward-looking Doppler beam sharpening is considered. Doppler beam sharpening (DBS) has shown its potential to improve cross-range resolution for automotive radar applications. However, it suffers from ambiguities when targets are positioned symmetrically with respect to the vehicle trajectory. A new approach named ...conference paper 2023