A new method, SVD-TLS extending Prony algorithm, is introduced for extracting UWB radar target features. The method is a modified classical Prony method based on singular value decomposition and total least squares th...A new method, SVD-TLS extending Prony algorithm, is introduced for extracting UWB radar target features. The method is a modified classical Prony method based on singular value decomposition and total least squares that can improve robust for spectrum estimation. Simulation results show that poles and residuum of target echo can be extracted effectively using this method, and at the same time, random noises can be restrained to some degree. It is applicable for target feature extraction such as UWB radar or other high resolution range radars.展开更多
Complex targets are irradiated by UWB radar, not only the mirror scattering echoes but also the multiscattering interacting echoes are included in target echoes. These two echoes can not be distinguished by classical ...Complex targets are irradiated by UWB radar, not only the mirror scattering echoes but also the multiscattering interacting echoes are included in target echoes. These two echoes can not be distinguished by classical frequency spectrum and power spectrurm. Time-domain bispectrum features of UWB radar signals that mingled with noise are analyzed, then processing this kind of signal using the method of time-domain bispectrum is experimented. At last, some UW-B radar returns with different signal noise ratio are simulated using the method of time-domain bispectrum Theoretical analysis and the results of simulation show that the method of extraction partial features of UWB radar targets based on time-domain bispectrum is good, and target classification and recognition can be implemented using those features.展开更多
This paper introduces a human gesture recognition algorithm using an impulse radio ultra-wide- band (IR-UWB) radar sensor. Human gesture recognition has been one of the hottest research topics for quite a long time. M...This paper introduces a human gesture recognition algorithm using an impulse radio ultra-wide- band (IR-UWB) radar sensor. Human gesture recognition has been one of the hottest research topics for quite a long time. Many gesture recognition algorithms or systems using other sensors have been proposed such as using cameras, RFID tags and so on. Among which gesture recognition systems using cameras have been extensively studied in past years and widely used in practical. While it might show some deficiencies in some cases. For example, the users might not like to be filmed by cameras considering their privacies. Besides, it might not work well in very dark environments. While RFID tags could be inconvenient to many people and are likely to be lost. Our gesture recognition algorithm uses IR-UWB radar sensor which has pretty high resolution in ranging and adjustable gesture recognition range, meanwhile, does not have problems in privacy issues or darkness. In this paper, the gesture recognition algorithm is based on the moving direction and distance change of the human hand and the change of the frontal surface area of hand towards radar sensor. By combining these changes while doing gestures, the algorithm may recognize basically 6 kinds of hand gestures. The experimental results show that these gestures are of quite good performance. The performance analysis from experiments is also given.展开更多
During the last decades, we have witnessed a widespread deployment of the ultra wide band (UWB) radar systems. Considering a medical field, an algorithm optimizing these systems is pointed out in this contribution. Be...During the last decades, we have witnessed a widespread deployment of the ultra wide band (UWB) radar systems. Considering a medical field, an algorithm optimizing these systems is pointed out in this contribution. Beginning with the description of the UWB radar system, this algorithm has proved to be not only able to take a medical image of the human body but also capable of diverting the human tissue. Moreover, we insist on the fact that this algorithm can easily optimize different radar parameters. So, the human body layer width, the incident angle and the frequency maximizing reflection coefficient are estimated in this paper.展开更多
Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security or weather service domains. For a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, radar applications have been develop...Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security or weather service domains. For a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, radar applications have been developed and have become known in the civil domain. In particular, the arrival of UWB—Ultra-Wideband technology allows the design of compact and low-cost radars with multiple fields of application. In this paper, we focus on road applications, such as driving assistance with the objective of increasing safety and reducing accidents. In classical UWB radar systems, Gaussian and monocycle pulses are commonly used. In previous works, original waveforms based on orthogonal functions (Hermite and Gegenbauer) were proposed. These provide a good spatial resolution, suitable for radar detection. Another advantage of these waveforms is their multiple access capability, due to their orthogonality. The aim of the study presented in this article is to compare simulation and experimental results obtained, especially for short-range anticollision radar application, using these waveforms in one part and Gaussian and monocycle pulses in the other part. The originality of this paper relies on the new approach. Indeed, this comparison study using these waveforms has never been done before. Finally, some examples of real experiments in a real road environment with different waveforms are presented and analysed.展开更多
人体呼吸系统相关疾病常常伴随着呼吸深度和节律的异常,因此呼吸信号监测和呼吸模式识别在医疗健康领域中尤其是对于睡眠监测、疾病预断具有重要意义。其中,非接触式的脉冲式超宽带雷达(Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband,IR-UWB)因具有良...人体呼吸系统相关疾病常常伴随着呼吸深度和节律的异常,因此呼吸信号监测和呼吸模式识别在医疗健康领域中尤其是对于睡眠监测、疾病预断具有重要意义。其中,非接触式的脉冲式超宽带雷达(Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband,IR-UWB)因具有良好的距离分辨率和穿透能力以及全天候全天时、安全无创的检测优势,正逐步成为睡眠健康监护领域中最关键的感知技术之一。然而受睡眠监测特定的室内场景影响,复杂的测量环境给呼吸模式特征的准确提取带来了限制和挑战,传统的雷达呼吸模式识别算法主要关注一维呼吸时、频域特征,而IR-UWB雷达目标回波信息分散在多个距离门内,使用一维特征识别准确率较低。为此,本文针对IR-UWB雷达中人体呼吸在时间上慢速起伏运动、在距离上是扩展目标的信号模型特点,提出了一种引入时距信息的IR-UWB雷达多域特征融合呼吸模式识别方法。算法在提取一维呼吸信号波形时、频域特征的基础上更进一步挖掘雷达二维时距图像中潜在的呼吸模式形态特征,通过多域特征融合实现呼吸模式的非接触式检测和识别。在图像处理上,针对图像受呼吸异常节律影响呈现局部粘连特性导致呼吸周期提取难的问题,提出一种通过相位矩阵图像处理来检测雷达图像中的呼吸时距条带从而获取图像特征的方法。实验结果表明,利用该算法提取的多域特征对六种呼吸模式进行机器学习的分类识别,可以实现96.3%的识别准确率。展开更多
文摘A new method, SVD-TLS extending Prony algorithm, is introduced for extracting UWB radar target features. The method is a modified classical Prony method based on singular value decomposition and total least squares that can improve robust for spectrum estimation. Simulation results show that poles and residuum of target echo can be extracted effectively using this method, and at the same time, random noises can be restrained to some degree. It is applicable for target feature extraction such as UWB radar or other high resolution range radars.
基金This work was supported in part by National Defence Science and Technology Foundation (413220402)
文摘Complex targets are irradiated by UWB radar, not only the mirror scattering echoes but also the multiscattering interacting echoes are included in target echoes. These two echoes can not be distinguished by classical frequency spectrum and power spectrurm. Time-domain bispectrum features of UWB radar signals that mingled with noise are analyzed, then processing this kind of signal using the method of time-domain bispectrum is experimented. At last, some UW-B radar returns with different signal noise ratio are simulated using the method of time-domain bispectrum Theoretical analysis and the results of simulation show that the method of extraction partial features of UWB radar targets based on time-domain bispectrum is good, and target classification and recognition can be implemented using those features.
文摘This paper introduces a human gesture recognition algorithm using an impulse radio ultra-wide- band (IR-UWB) radar sensor. Human gesture recognition has been one of the hottest research topics for quite a long time. Many gesture recognition algorithms or systems using other sensors have been proposed such as using cameras, RFID tags and so on. Among which gesture recognition systems using cameras have been extensively studied in past years and widely used in practical. While it might show some deficiencies in some cases. For example, the users might not like to be filmed by cameras considering their privacies. Besides, it might not work well in very dark environments. While RFID tags could be inconvenient to many people and are likely to be lost. Our gesture recognition algorithm uses IR-UWB radar sensor which has pretty high resolution in ranging and adjustable gesture recognition range, meanwhile, does not have problems in privacy issues or darkness. In this paper, the gesture recognition algorithm is based on the moving direction and distance change of the human hand and the change of the frontal surface area of hand towards radar sensor. By combining these changes while doing gestures, the algorithm may recognize basically 6 kinds of hand gestures. The experimental results show that these gestures are of quite good performance. The performance analysis from experiments is also given.
文摘During the last decades, we have witnessed a widespread deployment of the ultra wide band (UWB) radar systems. Considering a medical field, an algorithm optimizing these systems is pointed out in this contribution. Beginning with the description of the UWB radar system, this algorithm has proved to be not only able to take a medical image of the human body but also capable of diverting the human tissue. Moreover, we insist on the fact that this algorithm can easily optimize different radar parameters. So, the human body layer width, the incident angle and the frequency maximizing reflection coefficient are estimated in this paper.
文摘Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security or weather service domains. For a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, radar applications have been developed and have become known in the civil domain. In particular, the arrival of UWB—Ultra-Wideband technology allows the design of compact and low-cost radars with multiple fields of application. In this paper, we focus on road applications, such as driving assistance with the objective of increasing safety and reducing accidents. In classical UWB radar systems, Gaussian and monocycle pulses are commonly used. In previous works, original waveforms based on orthogonal functions (Hermite and Gegenbauer) were proposed. These provide a good spatial resolution, suitable for radar detection. Another advantage of these waveforms is their multiple access capability, due to their orthogonality. The aim of the study presented in this article is to compare simulation and experimental results obtained, especially for short-range anticollision radar application, using these waveforms in one part and Gaussian and monocycle pulses in the other part. The originality of this paper relies on the new approach. Indeed, this comparison study using these waveforms has never been done before. Finally, some examples of real experiments in a real road environment with different waveforms are presented and analysed.
文摘人体呼吸系统相关疾病常常伴随着呼吸深度和节律的异常,因此呼吸信号监测和呼吸模式识别在医疗健康领域中尤其是对于睡眠监测、疾病预断具有重要意义。其中,非接触式的脉冲式超宽带雷达(Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband,IR-UWB)因具有良好的距离分辨率和穿透能力以及全天候全天时、安全无创的检测优势,正逐步成为睡眠健康监护领域中最关键的感知技术之一。然而受睡眠监测特定的室内场景影响,复杂的测量环境给呼吸模式特征的准确提取带来了限制和挑战,传统的雷达呼吸模式识别算法主要关注一维呼吸时、频域特征,而IR-UWB雷达目标回波信息分散在多个距离门内,使用一维特征识别准确率较低。为此,本文针对IR-UWB雷达中人体呼吸在时间上慢速起伏运动、在距离上是扩展目标的信号模型特点,提出了一种引入时距信息的IR-UWB雷达多域特征融合呼吸模式识别方法。算法在提取一维呼吸信号波形时、频域特征的基础上更进一步挖掘雷达二维时距图像中潜在的呼吸模式形态特征,通过多域特征融合实现呼吸模式的非接触式检测和识别。在图像处理上,针对图像受呼吸异常节律影响呈现局部粘连特性导致呼吸周期提取难的问题,提出一种通过相位矩阵图像处理来检测雷达图像中的呼吸时距条带从而获取图像特征的方法。实验结果表明,利用该算法提取的多域特征对六种呼吸模式进行机器学习的分类识别,可以实现96.3%的识别准确率。
