G01S13/003

HARMONIC WIRELESS SIGNAL CAPTURE TO MAP A STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENT
20230036560 · 2023-02-02 ·

A system for radio-frequency imaging of a structural environment is disclosed, including radio devices configured to transmit radio signals and a radio imaging device configured to receive the radio signals transmitted by the radio devices. The radio signals received at some times are scattered, reflected, or attenuated by an object collocated with an active localization device. The radio signals received at other times are scattered, reflected, or attenuated by the object not collocated with the active localization device. The system can obtain an indication of a location of the active localization device and, based on the radio signals received at the times the object is collocated with the active localization device, generate a radio signature of the object associated with the location. The system can then compute a score indicative of a likelihood that the object is at the location when it is not collocated with the active localization device.

Multistatic radar utilizing 5G

A multi node radar network system is disclosed. The system includes a base node configured to transmit a directional 5G RF signal, a request node configured to request the base node to transmit the 5G RF signal, and one or more listening nodes configured to receive reflections of the 5G RF signal off of a target object. The system further includes a computation module configured to determine the location of the target object from data received from at least one of the base node, the request node, or the one or more listening nodes. A method for determining the position of a target object in a multi node radar system is disclosed.

UAV ground penetrating radar array

A GPR system the implements a modified multistatic mode of operation is provided. The GPR is suitable for mounting on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The GPR system has radar transceivers. The GPR system transmits transmit signal serially via the transceivers. For each transceiver that transmits a transmit signal, the GPR system receives a return signal acquired by each transceiver except for a return signal for the transceiver that transmits the transmit signal. The GPR system outputs of matrix of return signals that includes a null value for the return signals of the transceivers that transmit.

Radar system comprising a plurality of radar chips

A radar system is described. In accordance with one example implementation, the radar system comprises a passive coupler arrangement and also a first radar chip, a second radar chip and a third radar chip. The radar chips each comprise at least one external RF contact and also a local oscillator designed to generate an RF oscillator signal at least in a switched-on state. The external RF contacts of the radar chips are coupled via the coupler arrangement in such a way that, in a first operating mode, the RF oscillator signal can be transferred from the first radar chip via the coupler arrangement to the second radar chip and the third radar chip, and that, in a second operating mode, the RF oscillator signal can be transferred from the second radar chip via the coupler arrangement to the third radar chip.

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) target emulation system and method for testing MMWAVE radar sensor
11486963 · 2022-11-01 · ·

A MIMO target emulation system for testing a mmWave radar sensor having multiple radar transmitters and receivers includes a coupling probe antenna array for receiving radar signals from the radar transmitters and for sending emulated target echo signals to the radar receivers; emulator receivers for down converting and digitizing the radar signals; a processing unit that decouples the digital radar signals, retrieves target parameters corresponding to emulated targets, generates emulated target echo signals corresponding to the targets in response to the decoupled digitized radar signals using the target parameters, and pre-decoupling the emulated target echo signals; and emulator transmitters for performing digital to analog conversion of the emulated target echo signals and up converting frequencies of the analog emulated target echo signals. The emulator transmitters simultaneously send the analog emulated echo target signals to the radar sensor via the antenna array to emulate target echoes responsive to the radar signals.

ULTRA-WIDEBAND RECEIVER MODULE

An ultra-wideband, UWB, receiver module (213) comprising: an antenna for wirelessly receiving UWB signalling from a UWB transmitter module (212) and a processor. The processor is configured to: determine a channel impulse response, CIR, (519) of the wirelessly received UWB signalling, wherein the CIR comprises a plurality of channel taps each having a tap-response-value; identify a predetermined feature (520) in the CIR and an associated channel tap; and based on the channel tap that is associated with the identified feature (520) in the CIR (519), synchronize the UWB receiver module (213) for reception of subsequent UWB signalling.

Electronic Devices with Multi-Antenna Sensing
20230085972 · 2023-03-23 ·

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry that detects the location of external objects. A signal generator may concurrently transmit different radio-frequency ranging signals over two or more transmit antennas. The ranging signals may include waveforms with time-varying frequencies, where each waveform includes frequencies that are non-overlapping with the frequencies of each of the other waveforms at any given time. Antennas may receive reflected versions of the ranging signals and a processor may process the reflected versions of the ranging signals to identify the location of the external objects. This may prevent interference between the ranging signals and may significantly reduce the latency of location detection relative to examples where the ranging signals are transmitted by different transmit antennas in series.

MULTI-SENSOR ASSISTED MAXIMUM POWER EXPOSURE (MPE) OPERATIONS FOR MILLIMETER WAVE (MMW) COMMUNICATIONS

Disclosed are techniques for wireless sensing. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) detects an object and a direction to the object in an environment of the UE, determines whether the object is a human, identifies, based on the object being the human, a sensitive body part of the human, and performs, based on identification of the sensitive body part, a maximum power exposure (MPE) mitigation operation.

Online radar phase calibration through static environment measurements

An apparatus comprising an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas to receive a plurality of radar signals reflected by a plurality of objects responsive to a transmitted radar signal; a doppler measurement module to determine, for a first reflected radar signal of the plurality of reflected radar signals, a first doppler measurement indicating a velocity component based on a comparison of the first reflected radar signal to the transmitted radar signal; a phase offset measurement module to determine a first phase offset of the first reflected radar signal received at a first antenna of the plurality of antennas relative to a phase of the first reflected radar signal received at a reference antenna of the plurality of antennas; and a phase offset calibration module to determine, for the first antenna, a first phase offset calibration error based on the first doppler measurement and the first phase offset.

Method and system for performing location determination based on sequence of pulses

A surface-based transmitter system for assisting determination of vehicle location is presented. The system comprises a set of radio frequency (RF) transmitter nodes that, when deployed at different respective locations, are configured to output a sequence of respective RF pulses with a predefined inter-pulse delay between each pair of consecutive RF pulses in the sequence, wherein the pre-defined inter-pulse delay is longer than 1 microsecond. The set of RF transmitter nodes include at least a first RF transmitter node, a second RF transmitter node, a third RF transmitter node, and a fourth RF transmitter node, which are configured to output a first RF pulse, a second RF pulse, a third RF pulse, and a fourth RF pulse, respectively, of the sequence of RF pulses.