Distributed Radar Fusion for Extended Target Location and Velocity Reconstruction
N.C. Kruse (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
R.G. Guendel (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
F. Fioranelli (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
Olexander Yarovoy (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
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Abstract
The application of distributed radar to human motion monitoring is considered. A novel sensor fusion method has been proposed that yields a two-dimensional map of reflection intensity and a vector field of reconstructed velocities in lieu of conventional Doppler spectrograms or radial velocity components. The method has been verified using experimental datasets in two case studies involving fall detection in sequences of activities, and arm motion discrimination for in-place activities. A true positive rate and precision of respectively 99.3 % and 93.0 % have been demonstrated for the fall detection task, and the output of the proposed method for arm motion characterisation indicates suitability for classification in future research.