3-D Target Classification in Short Range Radar Applications

Over the years in the automotive industry, the use of radar sensors in advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) has been increasing, shining a light on various safety and security concerns to be dealt, that come along with it. The performances of existing sensor technologies such as camera, LIDAR and GPS can be very well complemented by the use...

Urban Infrastructure Damage Detection and Mapping Using Sentinel 1

Natural or man-made disasters can have a drastic impact on social, economic and environmental aspects of an affected population. Specifically, earthquakes are one of the most potent natural hazards, which cause a disproportionate amount of fatalities, primarily due to a) unexpected building collapses, b) restricted or limited access to basic...

Frequency selection for indoor ranging using compressive sensing

Nowadays, indoor ranging and localization have become necessary in daily life. Due to the multi-path propagation and noise in the indoor environment, phase domain ranging method using multi-frequency has been proposed which achieves accurate estimation of indoor target. However, as the indoor communication is usually carried on Bluetooth Low...

Respiration monitoring based on information fusion from Impedance pneumography and Electrocardiography

In the hospital environment, the variations in respiratory information (RI) are typically used for indicating the health condition of the patients. With RI known, corresponding parameters in both time domain (respiratory rate) and frequency domain (respiratory power) can be extracted to indicate the health condition. However, the monitoring...

Design and analysis of non-uniform MIMO array for interference suppression and automotive applications

Automotive radars play a very important role in reduction of traffic accidents and casualties by making the vehicle fully self aware of its surroundings. For the vehicle to be fully self aware multiple sensors or radars have to placed in close proximity of each other on the body of the automobile. This will lead to interference between the...

Ambient RF Harvesting in Office Environment for IoT Sensor

This report discusses one part of a project consisting of three parts. The goal of the project is to design a battery less sensor powered by RF energy fields present in an office environment. The sensor is able to measure the temperature and is able to communicate wirelessly using a low power communication protocol. In this project the use case...

Performance and Complexity of Data Acquisition in Compressive-sensing Radar

Compressive Sensing (CS) provides a new paradigm in data acquisition and signal processing based on the assumption of sparsity and the incoherence of the received signal. Based on that concept, many radar front-end architectures have been studied with the implementation of CS. In these architectures, less data are collected but the radar scene...