Review on Advanced Short-Range Multimode Continuous-Wave Radar Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Jose Maria Munoz-Ferreras, Zhengyu Peng, Roberto Gomez-Garcia, Changzhi Li

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Abstract

Short-range radar systems are noncontact devices that are attracting much attention from the RF/microwave community. In particular, they are being applied in healthcare contexts, ranging from hospital to indoor and outdoor environments, e.g., for monitoring of vital signs and/or tracking of human activities. This article reviews the standard architectures for short-range biomedical radars and presents recently proposed hybrid schemes, which combine different operation modes, leading to performance improvement. Specifically, hybridizations associated with Doppler, frequency-modulated continuous-wave, and tone-ranging-based schemes are provided from theoretical and simulation viewpoints. Some experiments on vital-sign monitoring and human-aware localization are also reported.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8000316
Pages (from-to)14-25
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2017

Keywords

  • Doppler radars
  • fall detection
  • frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars
  • healthcare
  • multi-mode operation
  • tone-ranging-inspired radars
  • vital-sign monitoring

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