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We present a fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) with an option to operate either in single-loop or in dual-loop configuration. The PLL is composed of two chips: a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) chip and a synthesizer chip that are integrated on one printed circuit board. In the synthesizer chip, a chirp generation circuit is included for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) r...Show More
In this paper, we present a nonlinear system model to evaluate the impact of circuit nonlinearities on the performance of millimeter-wave frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar-on-chip systems. The developed model can be used to derive frequency and amplitude of spurs in the radar IF spectrum. The major new insights about the impact of different nonlinearities as well a...Show More
A mixer-first single-RF-port duplexing RF frontend is proposed and implemented for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar applications in this paper. The RF frontend is a bidirectional simultaneous frequency up-and-down converter. Equations of basic parameters of the frontend are derived to provide design criteria. The proposed radar architecture has been evaluated with...Show More
At present, laser radar is main studied in the in automotive sensing. However, Driverless cars have higher request for different environment and light conditions. It is even difficult for lidar to find tiny targets on the road, such as pits and packets. In the paper, The low-terahertz high-resolution imaging radar system operating frequency is 94GHz, Using the frequency-modulated conti...Show More
Harmonic spurs in local oscillators can degrade the performance of millimeter-wave frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar systems that employ a large-ratio frequency multiplier for LO generation. In this paper, we analyze the effect caused by harmonic spurs on system performance. Undesired spurs show up alongside the beat-frequency component in the de-chirped intermediate frequency spectr...Show More
This paper demonstrates a sub-cm range resolution of a D-band (110–170 GHz) radar based on a bistatic BiCMOS mmWave IC with on-chip antennas. A wideband ring voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is utilized to generate a 20 GHz sweep bandwidth which translates to a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) modulation bandwidth of 80 GHz by means of a built-in quadrupler in the radar...Show More
This paper presents a signal processing method to detect human cough signals with a millimeter-wave frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. Tiny vibrations induced by coughing can be extracted by using the phase demodulation technique of the FMCW radar. A body motion artifact cancellation (BMAC) technique is exploited to suppress motion artifacts, which can easily...Show More
GHz system on chip (SoC) frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar for short range applications is presented in this paper. The SoC is attached to a carrier printed circuit board (PCB) which in turn is mounted on a radio frequency (RF) frontend using an interposer. Through the use of on-chip antennas, a small form factor is achieved for the SoC, only requiring bond wires for vol...Show More
The article presents a monostatic $D$ -band frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar based on a fully integrated monostatic single-channel silicon-germanium (SiGe) transceiver (TRX) chip. The chip is fabricated in Infineon’s bipolar-complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (BiCMOS) production technology B11HFC which offers heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an $f_{...Show More
Millimeter-wave (MMW) radar is a non-contact technology that can detect range, velocity and angle information of objects. In addition to using in automotive applications, millimeter-wave radar sensors can also be used for hydrological information measurement. Hence, we use a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar operating at 77GHz to measure the water level and f...Show More
Current labeling techniques have several disadvantages, such as label durability on outdoor conditions, that hinder the growth of automated data acquisition systems. We present a millimeter-wave radar-based alternative that can solve some of these problems by reading prerecorded binary air gaps in a low-cost plastic guide made from high-density polyethylene. In this article, bit detection in...Show More
This paper presents a new architecture of a compact multimode FMCW radar for general purpose short-range applications. The radar can operate in CW as well as in FMCW modes. The transmitted RF frequency or frequency range can be arbitrarily selected using an inbuilt SPI control over 2.25-2.50 GHz with a frequency resolution of at least 100 kHz. A modified VCO-PLL loop with a...Show More
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars offer many advantages such as low peak power, low probability of interception, low interference with other systems, and high-range resolution. However, their major drawback is the isolation required between the transmitter and receiver that typically leads to the use of two separate antennas for transmission and reception. Some schemes ...Show More
A compact wide-bandwidth frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar sensor module with integrated antennas intended for operation in the unlicensed 60-GHz band is presented. The proposed FMCW transceiver chip is at the heart of the radar module and it incorporates a frequency synthesizer and the analog baseband circuitry. The mm-wave radar sensor achieves sub-2-...Show More
In order to achieve good range resolution and accuracy on frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars, highly linear chirps are necessary. Voltage-controlled oscillators (V COs) present nonlinearities in their tuning curve. Then, once VCOs are a fundamental building block in many continuous-wave radar systems, these nonlinearities translate into negative effects in terms of...Show More
In this study, the conditions under which “stop-and-go approximation” applies to FMCW SAR are analyzed. We analytically verified that the validity of stop-and-go approximation is generalized in Ku-band frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) synthetic aperture radar (SAR). SAR processing time reduces without degrading the SAR image quality by applying stop-and-go approximation...Show More
Antipersonnel mines are hidden weapons that are usually buried close to the surface and are triggered by a foot step of the victim. A sensor that is able to detect minimum metal mines is a ground penetrating synthetic aperture radar (GPSAR). In previous work, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based GPSAR was developed and tested for the detection of buried landmines. The real topography was n...Show More
Vortex electromagnetic (EM) waves, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), can provide more information of the target in radar imaging and target detection. Pulsed radar is often used in current OAM radar design. However, compared with the pulsed radar, the frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar is small in size, light in weight, and low in power c...Show More
This paper presents a method for radar-based contactless vital sensing and ECG (ElectroCardioGram) signal reconstruction using deep learning. ECG signal is a typical representation of heartbeat signals. However, its measurement usually requires any contact device, which is not suitable due to discomfort of subjects. Radar system is effective for vital sensing because it can measure sma...Show More
Millimeter-wave radars could achieve high detection resolution and have drawn a lot of attention in recent years. Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar is the most popular one in civil applications due to its low peak power and high integration, where the FMCW signal generator is one crucial block and has significant influence on the radar system performanc...Show More
A body motion artifact cancellation (BMAC) technique is proposed to detect human cough signals using a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. Human coughs are spontaneously accompanied by large-scale body motions, which overwhelm small-scale vibration signals induced by coughing. To mitigate these effects, motion-induced phase variations are estimated and compensated at resp...Show More
A receiver based on a low-barrier diode has been developed for use in a 94-GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar. The receiver has a very simple design with the radio frequency (RF) front-end consisting of only a mixing diode mounted on a planar slot antenna. The low-barrier diode operates at a zero bias, and thus, the RF front end does not require any power supply. A transimpedance ...Show More
This letter presents a novel approach to build a compact lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radar for remote sensing applications. The proposed radar exploits the recent advancement of an automotive radar chip for broadband chirp generation and rapid data processing. To compensate for the path losses and improve penetration at the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequency range,...Show More
This letter presents a novel system to perform range detections using an artificial neural network on the time-domain baseband signal of frequency-modulated continuous wave radar sensors. The network is trained and evaluated with synthetic signals, which are generated with a point target simulator. To evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, it is compared with an order statistics ...Show More
This paper presents the study of a radar system for indoor human localization and vital signs monitoring. The article illustrates different solutions including linear frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) mode and recently proposed hybrid schemes, combining FMCW and continuous-wave (CW) interferometry modes. A new operating modality based on the use of the phase variations o...Show More