Improvement of weak targets detectability in strong clutter using the polarization contrast enhancement

Ground clutter signal is a kind of unwanted echoes in target detection radar system, which are normally reflected by ground surface, ground-based objects, and obstacles. It can be collected and characterized in polar coordinates in terms of range and azimuth. By using polarimetric based algorithms, including them single channel detector, the...

Detection System and Enclosure Design: for Quantum Random Number Generation

This report focuses on the design and implementation of both a detection system and an enclosure, which are designed to be used in a quantum random number generator. These parts are designed to be manufactured using off-the-shelf components to make the quantum random number generator affordable and accessible to a completely new user-group that...

UWB based wheelchair pose tracking

Many wheelchair users actively engage in wheelchair sports, for instance in the Paralympics. Trainers increasingly use the developments in sports technology for analysis. But wheelchair athletes do not benefit as much from these developments. A wheelchair can, for instance, disturb signal transmission. Recently, a set of studies describe the...

Designing a wireless communication system for smart sensor shorts in football: Using lossless data compression and pattern diversity

Decreasing injuries in football is a topic of interest for the KNVB and KNHB. To reach this goal, the use of smart sensor pants is researched. The data will be used to develop models for finding injury risk factors that are related to movements. Currently, the system is capable of reading out the IMUs and storing the data on an SD-card, for post...

Analysis of Remote Sensing approaches for LoRa coverage estimation

LoRa is being widely adopted by industrial communities for its long range, robustness and low power wireless communication capabilities. In fact LoRa is gaining more popularity even amongst the common people as it is an affordable solution and operates in the unlicensed radio spectrum. However, LoRa provides a widely heterogeneous coverage; it...

Blind OFDM Signal Parameter Estimation

OFDM is a common modulation technique applied in the video downlink of drones. In order to eavesdrop on this link, the OFDM signal needs to be demodulated. OFDM demodulators separate orthogonal subcarriers to obtain single carrier signals. This process requires a lot of prior information on the signal parameters. <br/><br/>This thesis presents...

WiFi Indoor Localization Using Channel State Information

Indoor positioning has several variants as a result of multiple years of study on the topic. Using WiFi signals as the technology to compute the position of the target device is one of the most extended and researched techniques. WiFi Access Points are extensively deployed in all indoor environments where WiFi indoor localization has a potential...

Investigation on Time-of-Arrival Estimationfor the LoRa Network

LoRa (Long Range) is a low-power, long-range and low-cost wireless communication system that can facilitate a wide variety of infrastructures for the Internet of Things (IoT). Current algorithms to locate LoRa tags have a resolution of 100 m in practice, and a question is if that can be improved without changing the tags or adding too much to...

Analysis of Antenna and RF Front-End Topologies for Multi-Beam Systems

Traditionally, antenna design involves optimizing the design parameters such as gain, minimum sidelobe level, scan range, half power beamwidth, for a particular application. Since 5G systems are pushing the boundaries for cellular communications by introducing unique challenges such as multiple beam antennas, beamforming etc. in the field of...

IQ offset and gain mismatch compensation for phase-domain ADC

A phase-domain analog-to-digital converter (PhADC) is a promising alternative to a pair of amplitude-domain in-phase and quadrature (IQ) ADCs for low power FSK/PSK demodulation, but due to the nonlinear amplitude-to-phase conversion, IQ offsets and gain mismatch can produce nonlinear phase distortions which that can lead to phase errors and an...

Radar to radar interference for 77GHz automotive radar

Automotive radar is a key element in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). With the growth of Automotive industry, there is a high demand for the sensors used in assisting systems. As the number of sensors increases, probability that these systems being in close proximity will also increase. This will lead to situations where in multiple...

Performance Evaluation of LoRaWAN: From Small-Scale to Large-Scale Networks

The uprising of Long Range (LoRa) technology for Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) has gained popularity in IoT applications. As LoRa utilizes the license-free ISM-bands, many network providers have deployed their LoRa networks that adhere to the LoRaWAN specification. With so many deployed networks, it is likely that devices belonging to...