• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2024

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for estimating the number of people and their locations using multiple IR-UWB radar sensors. Using three IR-UWB radar sensors in the indoor space, the measured signal from the target is processed to remove the clutter using rejection methods. Then, to further remove the clutter and to determine the presence of the human, the time-frequency image representing the micro-Doppler is obtained and classified by a convolutional neural network. Finally, the system finds the number of human objects and estimates each position in a two-dimensional space. In experiments using the measured data, the system successfully estimated the location and number of individuals with a high accuracy ≈ 88.68 %.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.419-425
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 초고속 이동체 탐지에 적합한 상보형 금속산화 반도체(CMOS) 초광대역(UWB) RFIC 기반의 레이다 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템의 거리 분해능은 15 cm이고, 탐지 범위는 15 m에 이른다. 시스템 구현을 위해서 단일 칩 CMOS UWB IC를 설계, 구현한다. 포락선 검출과 등가 시간 샘플링 구조를 이용하여 측정 및 신호처리 시간을 대폭 단축한다. 측정을 통해서 UWB 펄스의 대역폭은 0.5~1.0 GHz이며, 중심주파수는 3.5~4.5 GHz 임을 보인다. 또한 15 m 범위의 신호 수신을 포함하여 대상체 거리값 출력까지의 신호처리 시간은 $150{\mu}sec$임을 보인다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2015

The number of people who are suffering from chronic sleep disorder has been growing dramatically in modern era. In order to diagonse the sleep disorder, sleep doctors perform polysomnography: Patients sleep with attaching several vital sign sensors on their body, and doctors monitor the patients in order to find the exact reason of the sleep disorder. Typical polysmonography makes patients sleep with several sensors on their bodies, which prevents the patients from making a comfortable sleep. Furthermore, it is impossible to have a long-term monitoring since the measurements should be done in sleep hosiptal within a few hours. In order to tackle these problems in the typical polysomnography, we envision the development of a non-contact long-term home polysomnography system using UWB radar and related technologies such as multi-modal signal processing.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2022

IR-UWB radar has been regarded as the most promising technology for non-contact respiration and heartbeat monitoring because of its ability of detecting slight motion even in submillimeter range. Measuring heart rate is most challenging since the chest movement by heartbeat is quite subtle and easily interfered with by a random body motion or background noise. Additionally, periodic sampling can be limited by the performance of computer that handles the radar signals. In this paper, we deploy Lomb-Scargle periodogram method that estimates heart rate even with irregularly sampled data and uneven signal amplitude. Lomb-Scargle periodogram is known as a method for finding periodicity in irregularly-sampled and noisy data set. We also implement a motion detection scheme in order to make the heart rate estimation pause when a random motion is detected. Our scheme is implemented using Novelda's X4M03 radar development kit and its corresponding drivers and Python packages. Experimental results show that the estimation with Lomb-Scargle periodogram yield more accurate heart rate than the method of measuring peak-to-peak distance.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2023

연구목적: 본 논문에서는 IR-UWB를 활용하여 실내 위치 추정을 위한 거리 추정 기술을 제안하고 연구 수행한다. 실내 환경에서 clutter(클러터)나 noise(노이즈) 환경으로 인해 낮아진 목표 신호의 검출과 세기를 높일 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 연구방법: 클러터 억제와 미약 신호를 검출하기 위해 기존 연구인 Background Remover, Corelation, Singular Vector Decomposition 연구를 분석하고 알고리즘을 제안한다. 알고리즘의 평가를 위해 일반 실내 건물에서 2~11.5m 까지 목표물을 측정하는 실험을 진행하고 평균 에러율을 통해 성능평가 및 검증을 진행한다. 연구결과: 제안하는 알고리즘을 통해 11.5m까지 평균에러 0.57m, 6m이상에서 11.5m까지 에러율 0.49m였다. 기존 연구 대비하여 평균 에러율 약 1m를 줄이는 결과를 보였다. 결론: 본 연구에서 제안하는 알고리즘을 실험을 통해 검증했다. 거리나 위치 추정을 위한 클러터, 노이즈 환경에서 미약 신호 검출하는 기법으로 활용이 가능할 뿐 아니라 투과성이 높은 UWB 레이더를 활용하여 제난 상황에서 인명을 피해를 줄이기 위한 인명 검출 기법으로 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.733-734
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• 2017

위치정보를 얻기 위하여 초음파, 적외선, CCD카메라 등이 대표적으로 사용되고 있지만 주변 환경에 따라 오차가 범위가 크다 하지만 IR-UWB는 실내 외에서도 거리와 위치측정이 가능하여 차세대 측위기술로 주목을 받고 있는 기술이다. 1ns 단위로 짧은 신호 폭을 방사하고 반사되어 수신되는 신호와 시간적 지연을 이용하여 물체의 존재와 거리를 판단할 수 있다. 또한 주변 환경 조건과 상관없이 cm의 오차내의 정확한 위치측정이 가능하다. 수많은 반사 신호를 처리하기 때문에 각종 잡음을 신호의 평균값, Band pass Filter와 FFT를 이용하여 잡음을 개선하여 3차원 공간좌표를 분석하려 한다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.76-82
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• 2021

In this paper, the compressed sensing basic pursuit denoise algorithm adopted to synthetic aperture radar imaging is investigated to improve the object recognition. From the incomplete data sets for image processing, the compressed sensing algorithm had been integrated to recover the data before the conventional back- projection algorithm was involved to obtain the synthetic aperture radar images. This method can lead to the reduction of measurement events while scanning the objects. An ultra-wideband radar scheme using a stripmap synthetic aperture radar algorithm was utilized to detect objects hidden behind the box. The Ultra-Wideband radar system with 3.1~4.8 GHz broadband and UWB antenna were implemented to transmit and receive signal data of two conductive cylinders located inside the paper box. The results confirmed that the images can be reconstructed by using a 30% randomly selected dataset without noticeable distortion compared to the images generated by full data using the conventional back-projection algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5527-5545
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• 2019

Through-wall ultra-wide band (UWB) radar has been considered as one of the preferred and non-contact technologies for the targets detection owing to the better time resolution and stronger penetration. The high time resolution is a result of a larger of bandwidth of the employed UWB pulses from the radar system, which is a useful tool to separate multiple targets in complex environment. The article emphasised on human subject localization and detection. Human subject usually can be detected via extracting the weak respiratory signals of human subjects remotely. Meanwhile, the range between the detection object and radar is also acquired from the 2D range-frequency matrix. However, it is a challenging task to extract human respiratory signals owing to the low signal to clutter ratio. To improve the feasibility of human respiratory signals detection, a new method is developed via analysing the standard deviation based kurtosis of the collected pulses, which are modulated by human respiratory movements in slow time. The range between radar and the detection target is estimated using joint time-frequency analysis (JTFA) of the analysed characteristics, which provides a novel preliminary signature for life detection. The breathing rates are obtained using the proposed accumulation method in time and frequency domain, respectively. The proposed method is validated and proved numerically and experimentally.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권9호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2011

초광대역 레이더는 높은 분해 능력으로 인해 단거리 차량용 레이더로 주목받고 있다. 차량으로부터 반사된 레이더 신호는 "clutter"라는 원하지 않는 반사 신호를 갖게 되어, 목표물을 검출하는데 어려움을 갖게 된다. 그러므로 목표물에서 반사된 신호로부터 보다 확실하게 검출하기 위하여 레이더 검출기를 개발할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 log-normal clutter 환경에서 다양한 평균과 분산에서 최적인 검출기를 구하였다. 비동기 방식의 검출기로 자승 검출기와 선형 검출기, 로그 검출기 등을 분석하였다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 검출기의 성능을 분석하여, 차량용 레이더로 최적인 검출기를 구하였다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.433-444
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• 2020

This study proposes a method to improve the sleep stage and efficiency estimation of sleep apnea patients using a UWB (Ultra-Wideband) radar. Motion and respiration extracted from the radar signal were used. Respiratory signal disturbances by motion artifacts and irregular respiration patterns of sleep apnea patients are compensated for in the preprocessing stage. Preprocessing calculates the standard deviation of the respiration signal for a shift window of 15 seconds to estimate thresholds for compensation and applies it to the breathing signal. The method for estimating the sleep stage is based on the difference in amplitude of two kinds of smoothed respirations signals. In smoothing, the window size is set to 10 seconds and 34 seconds, respectively. The estimated feature was processed by the k-nearest neighbor classifier and the feature filtering model to discriminate between the sleep periods of the rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM). The feature filtering model reflects the characteristics of the REM sleep that occur continuously and the characteristics that mainly occur in the latter part of this stage. The sleep efficiency is estimated by using the sleep onset time and motion events. Sleep onset time uses estimated features from the gradient changes of the breathing signal. A motion event was applied based on the estimated energy change in the UWB signal. Sleep efficiency and sleep stage accuracy were assessed with polysomnography. The average sleep efficiency and sleep stage accuracy were estimated respectively to be about 96.3% and 88.8% in 18 sleep apnea subjects.