TY - GEN
T1 - Portable coherent frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar for indoor human tracking
AU - Peng, Zhengyu
AU - Munoz-Ferreras, Jose Maria
AU - Tang, Yao
AU - Gomez-Garcia, Roberto
AU - Li, Changzhi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant ECCS-1254838, the TexasTech University Global Scholar Academy program, the University of Alcal? under Project CCG-2014/EXP-021, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Project TEC2014-54289-R.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/3/31
Y1 - 2016/3/31
N2 - Radar-based human tracking can be applied to indoor healthcare scenarios, such as fall detection of elderly people. In this work, a portable frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar prototype for indoor human tracking is presented. The system provides absolute-range detection capabilities. Furthermore, it uses a novel approach-not requiring the sharing of the generation and acquisition clocks-to possess the highly-desired coherence feature, which enables the preservation of the phase history of targets. As a result, videos of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images-i.e., videos of range-Doppler frames-can be reconstructed. Experimental results for a walking person in a highly-cluttered indoor environment confirm the suitability of the low-cost radar prototype for indoor healthcare applications.
AB - Radar-based human tracking can be applied to indoor healthcare scenarios, such as fall detection of elderly people. In this work, a portable frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar prototype for indoor human tracking is presented. The system provides absolute-range detection capabilities. Furthermore, it uses a novel approach-not requiring the sharing of the generation and acquisition clocks-to possess the highly-desired coherence feature, which enables the preservation of the phase history of targets. As a result, videos of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images-i.e., videos of range-Doppler frames-can be reconstructed. Experimental results for a walking person in a highly-cluttered indoor environment confirm the suitability of the low-cost radar prototype for indoor healthcare applications.
KW - Coherent radars
KW - frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars
KW - indoor scenarios
KW - inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84969174956&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2016.7445555
DO - 10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2016.7445555
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84969174956
T3 - BioWireleSS 2016 - Proceedings, 2016 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems
SP - 36
EP - 38
BT - BioWireleSS 2016 - Proceedings, 2016 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 24 January 2016 through 27 January 2016
ER -