Integrated Radar Sensing and Perception for Next-Generation Intelligent Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Radar Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2026 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microwave/RF radar systems and algorithms; contactless health monitoring; RIS-aided indoor radar monitoring; biomedical applications; inductive wireless power transfer; wireless sensor networks
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Interests: biomedical signal processing; AI for healthcare; wearable and inertial sensing systems; statistical and predictive modeling; radar-based physiological and neurological monitoring; contactless health monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in radar technology are reshaping the design of intelligent systems capable of understanding and interacting with their environment in a robust and reliable manner. The concept of integrated radar sensing and perception refers to a new generation of systems in which radar is not merely a source of raw measurements but a core component of a unified perception pipeline. Modern intelligent platforms, such as autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, UAVs, smart infrastructures, and distributed IoT systems, are increasingly exploiting radar’s unique capabilities (range, velocity, angular diversity, micro-Doppler, and resilience to adverse conditions), combined with advanced perception algorithms.
This Special Issue invites authors to submit high-quality contributions exploring how radar sensing can be fused with intelligent perception frameworks, including machine learning, deep learning, data-driven signal interpretation, and AI-enhanced inference, to extract semantic information, classify and track objects, predict motion, and support real-time decision-making. We welcome submissions addressing fundamental advances in radar hardware and waveform design, signal and image processing, intelligent perception pipelines, multi-sensor fusion, and emerging paradigms such as integrated sensing–communication systems.
Applications may span a wide variety of domains, including autonomous mobility, robotics, industrial automation, smart environments, remote and environmental monitoring, IoT-based perception, and biomedical or human-centric monitoring systems. Contributions presenting theoretical developments, simulation studies, experimental validations, novel algorithms, or system-level architectures are strongly encouraged.
Dr. Marco Mercuri
Dr. Marida De Maria
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AI-based radar perception
- autonomous systems
- human and remote monitoring
- integrated radar sensing
- machine perception
- multi-sensor fusion
- radar imaging
- radar signal processing
- semantic perception
- smart environments
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