Safety Investigation of Millimeter Wave Radar to Monitor Vital Signs in the NICU

Neonates are among the most fragile in the human population. Even more so when born prematurely. Their loss of development time in the womb disrupts their growth, and the neonatal intensive care unit environment can add multiple stresses that hinder their development. This can partly be attributed to the intrusive environment of a neonatal...

ADome: Implementing CAN in a multi­sensor measurement setup

This thesis focuses on improving the readout of the ADome by implementing MCUs at each antenna probe, enabling local sampling and memory storage. The serial communication protocols CAN, SPI and I2C are considered and compared with one another. Ultimately, CAN is decided due to its robustness and simplicity which make the system cheap and ensures...

Uncertainty of a RMS Power Detector

The accuracy of a true-RMS detector board based on the Analog Devices LTC5596 is determined by measuring the input power and the output voltage. A number of samples of the output voltage is taken and the mean and standard deviation is shown. These measurements are done for single-tone excitation with a direct connection and over-the-air setup,...

Optical Calibration System: Subproject within the ADome project

In the ADome project, a truncated icosahedron is used as a frame for multiple antenna nodes. These nodes are used to measure the radiation pattern of an antenna-under-test located in the center of this dome. Since these antennas can be placed anywhere in the ADome by the user, a calibration system is necessary to find the spherical coordinates...

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) for Quantum Sensors: Validation and characterisation of 40nm SPAD

Quantum sensing technology has emerged as a promising field with superior sensitivity and accuracy in magnetic field sensing compared to conventional technologies. This breakthrough offers significant prospects in the biomedical sector, particularly in the realm of medical imaging. <br/><br/>This project focuses on the implementation of quantum...