In some previous reports about frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) Lidar, observing the longer waveform of a de-chirped signal is considered an effective scheme for further improving the ranging resolution. In this work, the ranging resolution...
Nonlinear radars can be utilized to detect electronic devices, which are difficult to detect with conventional radars due to their small radar cross sections (RCS). Since the receiver in a nonlinear radar is designed to only receive harmonic or inter...
Due to its fast processing time and robustness against harsh environmental conditions, the frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is widely used for target localization. For high-accuracy localizati...
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) application in road surface detection has been greatly developed in the past few decades, which enables rapid and economical estimation of pavement thickness and other physical properties in non-destructive testing (NDT...
In this paper, we compare the performances of impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) and frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) radars in measuring noncontact vital signs such as respiration rate and heart rate. These two type radars have been wi...
This paper presents a compact 122 GHz Terahertz FMCW radar using a plastic hollow-core dielectric waveguide for non-destructive testing. The guided approach simplifies the system, avoiding complex free-space optics and alignment, while improving the...
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) based on coherent ranging is a technology capable of high-resolution distance measurement while remaining robust against ambient light interference. However, extending the...
Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technique has recently been employed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to decrease the radar cost and volume. However, the operation range is limited by the direct energy leakage from the transmitting channe...
Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technologies play significant roles in millimeter-wave radar and communication. Their combinations, however, are understudied in the literature. This pap...
In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a scheme for generating a multi-band FMCW signal with a tunable sweep bandwidth and inter-band interval. For such a scheme, an original FMCW signal is first acquired by directly current-modulating a master...
Human body detection is very important in the research of automotive safety technology. The extraction and analysis of human micro-motion based on frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is gradually receiving attention. Aimed at the modulat...
The paper proposes a unsupervised method for detecting the three stages of sleep—wake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and non-REM sleep—using biosignals obtained from a 61 GHz single frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. To d...
This paper investigates the Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar sensor for multi-target displacement measurement in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). The principle of three-dimensional (3-D) displacement measurement of civil infrastru...
An ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulse (UWB EMP) can be coupled to an FMCW system through metal wires, causing electronic equipment disturbance or damage. In this paper, a hybrid model is proposed to carry out the interference analysis of UWB EMP co...
As the autonomous driving technology develops, research on related sensors is also being actively conducted. One system that is widely used today uses a light source with a wavelength in the 905 nm band for the pulse Light Detection And Ranging (LiDA...
As various unmanned autonomous driving technologies such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous driving drones are being developed, research on FMCW radar, a sensor related to these technologies, is actively being conducted. The range resolution, whic...
A fully integrated 24-GHz radar transceiver with one transmitter (TX) and two receivers (RXs) for compact frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar applications is here presented. The FMCW synthesizer was realized using a fractional-N phase-lo...
Frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) Lidar inevitably suffers from vibration and nonlinear frequency modulation, which influences the ranging and imaging results. In this paper, we analyze the impact of vibration error coupled with nonlinearit...
This paper presents the design and implementation results of an efficient fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor for frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal processing. The proposed FFT processor is designed with a memory-based FFT ar...
Current automotive radar technology is almost exclusively implemented using frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar in the millimeter wave bands. Unfortunately, incoherent interference is becoming a serious problem due to the increasing numb...
Frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) 3D imaging system may suffer from time-varying vibrations which will affect the accuracy of ranging and imaging of a target. The system uses only a single-period FMCW LiD...
Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is widely used in automotive and consumer electronics because of its range, velocity, and angle measurement functionality. In an FMCW radar system, the isolation between transmitting (Tx) and receiving...
A method of direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation for FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) radar is presented. In addition to MUSIC, which is the popular high-resolution DoA estimation algorithm, deep learning has recently emerged as a very pro...
The complexity of urban traffic environments poses unique challenges for automotive radar sensors. Limited range and Doppler resolution hinder the ability to distinguish closely spaced objects and detect vulnerable road users, particularly pedestrian...
Accurately detecting falls and providing clear directions for the fall can greatly assist medical staff in promptly developing rescue plans and reducing secondary injuries during transportation to the hospital. In order to facilitate portability and...
Co-located MIMO is used to enlarge the antenna aperture virtually and increase the angular resolution. This paper shows FMCW radar using MIMO VAA. Polyphase codes are designed for modulating the successive chirps of transmitting signals. The codes ar...
A low-complexity joint range and Doppler frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar algorithm based on the number of targets is proposed in this paper. This paper introduces two low-complexity FMCW radar algorithms, that is, region of interest...
Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems are gaining increasing interest within the remote sensing community due to their operational flexibility and observation capabilities. Among these systems, those exploiting the Frequency-Modulated Conti...
Maritime search and rescue (SAR) demands reliable sensing and communication under sea clutter. Emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology provides new opportunities for the development and modernization of maritime radio communic...
Radars with mmWave frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technology accurately estimate the range and velocity of targets in their field of view (FoV). The targeted angle of arrival (AoA) estimation can be improved by increasing receiving antenn...
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a high-precision ranging and imaging system that has been widely used in various areas, such as self-driving vehicles and industrial inspection. However, during detecti...
Use of Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems requires to accurately know the electronic parameters of the system. In particular, the use of an incorrect value of the Frequency Sweep Rate (FSR) introduces ge...
An FMCW LiDAR (frequency-modulated continuous-wave light detection and ranging) is a sensor that can measure distance using optical interference frequency (
Respiration and heartbeat are basic indicators of the physiological state of human beings. Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar can sense micro-displacement in the human body surface without contact, and is used for vital-sign (respiratio...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) find extensive use in various applications, including that within industrial environments. Efforts have been made to develop cheap, portable, and light-ranging/positioning systems to accurately locate their absolute/re...
This paper investigates the feasibility of extracting the characteristics of sealed paper boxes based on range profiles using a millimeter-wave automotive FMCW radar. Radar is one of the key basic sensors for driving assistance and collision avoidanc...
With the increase in small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications in several technology areas, detection and small UAVs classification have become of interest. To cope with small radar cross-sections (RCSs), slow-flying speeds, and low flying alt...
We present thickness measurements with millimeter and terahertz waves using frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) sensors. In contrast to terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (TDS), our FMCW systems provide a higher penetration depth and measureme...
Effective Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) requires precise chest compression depth, but current out-of-hospital monitoring technologies face limitations. This study introduces a method using frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar to rem...
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors are essential for applications where high-resolution distance and velocity measurements are required. In particular, frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LiDAR, compared with other LiDAR implementatio...
The work presented in this paper is about implementing a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) positioning radar and a sparse spectrum fitting (SpSF) algorithm for range and angular measurements. First, we d...
Sleep apnea, characterized by its high prevalence and serious health consequences, faces a critical bottleneck in diagnosis. Polysomnography (PSG), the gold standard, is costly and cumbersome, while wearable devices struggle with quality control and...
In order to reduce the probability of automobile safety incidents, the in-vehicle occupant monitoring is indispensable. However, occupant monitoring using frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar can be challenging due to the interference fro...
The accuracy of target distance obtained by a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging system is often affected by factors such as white Gaussian noise (WGN), spectrum leakage, and the picket fence effect. There are some traditional s...
This study investigated the feasibility of remotely estimating the urinary flow velocity of a human subject with high accuracy using millimeter-wave radar. Uroflowmetry is a measurement that involves the speed and volume of voided urine to diagnose b...
In a smoke environment, suspended particles can scatter and absorb laser photons, making target echo signals extremely weak and difficult to extract and identify, which causes obvious difficulty in fixed-distance of laser fuze. In this paper, the mul...
Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) Laser Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems are widely used due to their high accuracy and resolution. Nevertheless, conventional distance extraction methods often lack robustness in noisy and complex enviro...
A sea surface imaging technique for an emergency response using a ready-made frequency modulated continuous wave–synthetic aperture radar (FMCW SAR) system and its experimental results are described in this paper. The optimal range of radiowave...
Multi-dimensional parameters joint estimation of multi-targets is introduced to implement super-resolution sensing in range, velocity, azimuth angle, and elevation angle for frequency-modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) radar systems. In this paper,...
As a convenient and natural way of human-computer interaction, gesture recognition technology has broad research and application prospects in many fields, such as intelligent perception and virtual reality. This paper summarized the relevant literatu...
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