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Juneja, Suchdeep Singh (author)In the ever-evolving field of music technology, new solutions continue to emerge that enhance musical expression and creativity. This thesis introduces WaveTune, a novel lightweight hand gesture recognition system that enables real-time control of musical composition and performance through natural hand motions.<br/><br/>WaveTune utilizes...master thesis 2023
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Lyu, Jialin (author)According to the World Health Organization, approximately 15 million neonates are born prematurely each year, which is more than 1 in 10 newborns. Premature birth disrupts the normal development of the neonate in the womb, which can result in various complications and health issues, necessitating continuous monitoring of vital signs to assess...master thesis 2023
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XIAO, Jiaxuan (author)Autonomous driving can bring revolutionary advancements in transportation, by making vehicles navigate and operate independently without human intervention. To achieve this, autonomous vehicles are equipped with sensors, including cameras, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), and radar, which provide them with a comprehensive view of their...master thesis 2023
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Chen, Yue (author)The increasing use of automotive radars on roads has led to a significant issue of mutual interference between them. To better understand the characteristics and impact of this interference, it is necessary to perform analytical investigations of FMCW radar-to-radar interference. This thesis presents analytical models for FMCW-to-FMCW mutual...master thesis 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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Ding, Chuanwei (author), Zhang, Li (author), Chen, Haoyu (author), Hong, Hong (author), Zhu, Xiaohua (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Radar-based solutions have attracted great attention in human activity recognition (HAR) for their advantages in accuracy, robustness, and privacy protection. The conventional approaches transform radar signals into feature maps and then directly process them as visual images. While effective, these image-based methods may not be the best...journal article 2023
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Arun Vijayaraghavan, Arun (author)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...master thesis 2022
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Two receiver structures of phase modulated FMCW signals with low ADC sampling requirement are investigated, namely the matched filter of the dechirped signal and the group delay filter approach. The sensing performance of the investigated receiver strategies are analyzed in application to BPSK modulated chirp. Numerical simulations demonstrate...conference paper 2022
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Myers, N.J. (author), Heath, Robert W. (author)Phased arrays, commonly used in IEEE 802.11ad and 5G radios, are capable of focusing radio frequency signals in a specific direction or a spatial region. Beamforming achieves such directional or spatial concentration of signals and enables phased array-based radios to achieve high data rates. Designing beams for millimeter wave and terahertz...journal article 2022
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Dong, Xichao (author), Zhao, Zewei (author), Wang, Yupei (author), Zeng, Tao (author), Wang, J. (author), Sui, Yi (author)Recently, frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar-based hand gesture recognition (HGR) using deep learning has achieved favorable performance. However, many existing methods use extracted features separately, i.e., using one of the range, Doppler, azimuth, or elevation angle information, or a combination of any two, to train...journal article 2022
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Wang, J. (author), Ding, Ming (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, the interference mitigation for Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar system with a dechirping receiver is investigated. After dechirping operation, the scattered signals from targets result in beat signals, i.e., the sum of complex exponentials while the interferences lead to chirp-like short pulses. Taking...journal article 2022
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Vaucher, Cicero S. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The sensing properties of the binary phase codes are investigated with their application to phase-coded (linearly) frequency modulated continuous waveform (PC-FMCW). It is shown that the ambiguity function of FMCW signal modulated with a binary phase code corresponds to sheared ambiguity function of the code itself. The range profiles of PC...conference paper 2022
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Wang, J. (author), Li, Runlong (author), He, Yuan (author), Yang, Yang (author)In this article, the interference mitigation (IM) problem is tackled as a regression problem. A prior-guided deep learning (DL)-based IM approach is proposed for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars. Considering the complex-valued nature of radar signals, a complex-valued convolutional neural network, which is different from the...journal article 2022
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author)Smoothed phase-coded frequency modulated continuous waveform (SPC-FMCW), which is aimed to improve the coexistence of multiple radars operating within the same frequency bandwidth, is studied, and the receiving strategy with a low analog-to-digital converter sampling requirement is investigated. The Gaussian filter is applied to obtain smooth...journal article 2022
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Wang, J. (author)In this paper, constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector-based approaches are proposed for interference mitigation of Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radars. The proposed methods exploit the fact that after dechirping and low-pass filtering operations the targets' beat signals of FMCW radars are composed of exponential sinusoidal...journal article 2022
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Yi, H. (author), Öztürk, E. (author), Koelink, Marco (author), Krimmling, Jana (author), Damian, Andrei A. (author), Debski, Wojciech (author), van Zeijl, H.W. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Poelma, René H. (author)High-performance IC-to-antenna interconnection is one of the key enablers for the mass production of high-end millimeter wave (mmW) radar systems above 100 GHz. In this work, a radar system with an on-package antenna array working at 122 GHz is presented. The antenna is placed on top of the molded package and the antenna-to-chip interconnection...journal article 2022
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Wang, J. (author), Ding, M. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A novel matrix-pencil (MP)-based interference mitigation approach for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars is proposed in this article. The interference-contaminated segment of the beat signal is first cut out, and then, the signal samples in the cutout region are reconstructed by modeling the beat signal as a sum of complex...journal article 2021
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), van der Zwan, W.F. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The phase coded FMCW and its properties for joint sensing and communication are studied. Two different receiver structures for the sensing properties of this waveform are compared theoretically and experimentally. It is shown both by simulations and experiments that the phased coded FMCW combines communication capabilities of PMCW and sensing...conference paper 2021
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Wan, Lin (author)In the last two decades, radar-based contactless vital signs monitoring (heartbeat and respiration rate) has raised increasing interest as an emerging approach for healthcare and complementary for other more established technologies. Heartbeat and respiration induce only very subtle rhythmic changes in the reflected radar signature, whereas the...master thesis 2020
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Wan, Siyan (author)Currently, most of FMCW radar systems for target detection and localization are based on the radar system with multiple receiving antennas, but little based on the SISO system. In this project, we will show a unique signal processing pipeline based on the 8 GHz SISO FMCW radar system. An advanced algorithm of multi-target detection and tracking...master thesis 2020