Cheng Chen, Hong Ding, Xiaotao Huang, Xiangyang Li, Jibing Yuan
{"title":"Through-wall localization with UWB sensor network","authors":"Cheng Chen, Hong Ding, Xiaotao Huang, Xiangyang Li, Jibing Yuan","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340436","url":null,"abstract":"A positioning approach based on through-wall propagation model is proposed to mitigate the non-line of sight (NLOS) error and improve the performance of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) through-wall localization. In NLOS conditions, there exist biases in the range differences determined by time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. The error due to wall effect, which is dominant error in position estimation, can be mitigated with the proposed approach. The numerical simulations verify the effectiveness of the improvement of performance provided by the proposed approach. The simulation results also demonstrate the through-wall propagation model used in the approach is effective.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130525907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directive, electrically-small UWB antennas","authors":"H. Schantz","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340482","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a variety of directive, electrically-small ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna designs. Employing a multipole-synthesis design methodology yields stable patterns with directivity of +4.7dBi or more across multiple decade bandwidths. The antenna may be thought of as an electrically-short, resistively-terminated transmission line. Open field testing of a 3m prototype antenna yields confirmation of NEC-derived performance predictions. The proposed antenna design is particularly well-suited for use as a receive antenna at HF frequencies or lower, where antenna loss cancels out high levels of atmospheric noise without impacting received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134576557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xuyang Li, M. Jalilvand, Jijing Yan, L. Zwirello, T. Zwick
{"title":"A multiband slotted Bowtie antenna for stroke detection","authors":"Xuyang Li, M. Jalilvand, Jijing Yan, L. Zwirello, T. Zwick","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340477","url":null,"abstract":"For stroke detection, low frequencies are required due to the increasing signal attenuation in human tissues with the frequency. In this paper a multiband slotted Bowtie antenna is proposed, which can be operated directly on or near to the skin. The antenna has a very small size of 26×34 mm2. Moreover, the operating bands are from 0.5 to 0.7 GHz and 1.3 to 4 GHz. The antenna is optimized in the simulation and verified through the measurements. The results show that the antenna provides a high potential for medical diagnostics such as human stroke detection.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126615864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of wireless channel performance using MIMO-UWB system in underground mine gallery","authors":"I. Mabrouk, L. Talbi, M. Nedil","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340394","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the incorporation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is discussed. 2 × 2 MIMO-UWB measurement campaign in the 3-10 GHz bandwidth is conducted and the transmission performance in Line Of Sight (LOS) environment is evaluated. The aim of this work is to analyze the effect of antenna element configuration on MIMO-UWB system working in underground mine environment. To achieve this, many parameters such as the channel correlation, and the system capacity are analyzed. The obtained results suggest that MIMO-UWB systems are promising for high data rate transmission in harsh RF environments.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125197755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Esswein, G. Fischer, R. Weigel, T. Ussmüller, C. Carlowitz, M. Vossiek
{"title":"An integrated switched injection-locked oscillator for pulsed angle modulated ultra wideband communication and radar systems","authors":"A. Esswein, G. Fischer, R. Weigel, T. Ussmüller, C. Carlowitz, M. Vossiek","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340458","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an integrated switched injection-locked oscillator (SILO) circuit for use in pulsed angular modulated ultra wideband communication and radar systems. The circuit consists of two active baluns for single-ended to differential and differential to single-ended conversion, a Schmitt-trigger with modified current mirror load for current peak generation and a simple cross-coupled oscillator for signal generation. It has an externally controllable pulse repetition rate and a pulse duration of approx. 1ns. During operation it consumes 33mA at 3.3V supply voltage, while generating a 370 mVpp signal. The generated signal has a 10dB-bandwidth of over 2GHz at 7.5 GHz center frequency. Measurement results with an external baseband generator are shown.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126150488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Nijsure, Wee Peng Tay, E. Gunawan, Joshua Lai Chong Yue
{"title":"A Bayesian nonparametric approach to tumor detection using UWB imaging","authors":"Y. Nijsure, Wee Peng Tay, E. Gunawan, Joshua Lai Chong Yue","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340410","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a tumor detection and discrimination algorithm for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) microwave imaging of breast cancer based on a Bayesian nonparametric approach. We model the UWB backscattered signal as a mixture of distinct scatterer contributions, and use a Dirichlet Process mixture model (DPMM) to describe the amplitudes and delays of the backscattered returns. Because of the unbounded complexity afforded by the DPMM, model under-fitting is avoided and parameters like the clutter covariance matrix in other commonly used approaches, need not be estimated. The DPMM allows us to perform discrimination when there are multiple tumor and clutter sources that present as extended radar targets. After performing discrimination, we distinguish the tumor sources from other clutter sources using a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). We perform experiments on a breast phantom with realistic dielectric contrast ratios, and compare the performance of our algorithm with a direct GLRT approach. Our numerical results show performance improvement in terms of tumor detection probability and Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) gain of approximately 2.2 dB at a probability of detection of 0.9 over the GLRT method.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126763945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time of arrival based localization of UWB transmitters buried in lossy dielectric media","authors":"Michael Mirbach, W. Menzel","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340456","url":null,"abstract":"An algorithm for subsurface localization of UWB transmitters in homogeneous dielectric media is presented. In combination with surface estimation algorithms for UWB pulse radars it allows localization behind arbitrarily shaped medium surfaces. We propose a localization system operating in the FCC UWB frequency range from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz consisting of a transmitter optimized for radiation in high permittivity media and of external radar sensors. The sensors scan the dielectric surface and also measure the time of arrival (ToA) of the signal transmitted from inside of the medium. The transmitter location is estimated by combining the measured ToA data with the knowledge about shape and position of the medium. Therefore a method to calculate wavefront refraction on the medium boundary based on the Huygens-Fresnel principle is derived. The performance of the proposed localization method is verified using electro-magnetic field simulations and measurements. The measurements have been performed with the transmitter placed in high permittivity tissue-mimicking liquid. The localization results are compared with the manually measured transmitter position showing a good agreement.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115640291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motion detection In-Vivo by multi-channel ultrawideband radar","authors":"O. Kosch, F. Thiel, F. Seifert, J. Sachs, M. Hein","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340451","url":null,"abstract":"Remote sensing of body and inner organ motion by ultra-wideband radar is a promising alternative to electrocardiogram (ECG) based gating of several diagnostic imaging and image guided therapy modalities, e.g. cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and high energy particle therapy. In this paper, we present a noncontact approach for the detection of cardiac mechanics by means of multi-channel UWB radar sensors. To extract the required position information from UWB radar for cardiac MRI the decomposition of respiratory and cardiac motions is performed by applying a blind-source separation method based on several time-delayed second-order correlation matrices to decompose the UWB signals and extract movements of cardiac and respiratory landmarks. We compared the time evolution of these landmarks to the signals of simultaneously measured ECG's demonstrating the strong correlation between cardiac UWB and ECG signals. Furthermore, we implemented a fast 1D MR imaging method in a 3 tesla MR scanner to extract true inner organ landmark movements in real time and present these comparisons with simultaneously acquired multi-channel UWB data.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114876590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compressed Sensing for UWB medical radar applications","authors":"T. Thiasiriphet, M. Ibrahim, J. Lindner","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340444","url":null,"abstract":"UWB has been a very attractive choice for medical radar and localization applications. The use of UWB signals can provide distance measurements with very high accuracy but a big challenge is caused by high attenuation resulting in low signal-to-noise ratios. It is well-known that analog-to-digital conversion is practically not feasible for UWB. Compressed Sensing is an emerging concept which potentially could solve this problem. The weakness of this concept is to handle noisy signals. We propose an implementation strategy to overcome this problem. The hardware implementation and complexity are also taken into account. Simulation results show significant improvements compared to conventional algorithms for both ideal and measured signals.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128596674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An 8–18 GHz Low noise amplifier design in 0.18μm CMOS technology","authors":"P. Jamshidi, S. Naseh","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340425","url":null,"abstract":"A new method to achieve wideband input impedance matching and small die area for current-reused cascade low noise amplifier (LNA) is presented. The proposed circuit is designed and simulated at X/Ku-Band using the TSMC 0.18μm CMOS process. The wideband input impedance matching was achieved by taking advantage of the resistive shunt-shunt feedback and source-degeneration topology, but in the proposed circuit the resistive feedback signal is taken from different node in contrast to the traditional cascade LNA. By utilizing a center-tapped inductor (CTI) at the inter-stage network of the LNA a high gain is obtained over the entire bandwidth (BW) with small die area. Analytical expressions have been derived for the input impedance matching of the circuit. Using the proposed technique, power gain of 17±.5dB and noise figure between 2.8-4dB was achieved in a bandwidth of 8-18GHz. The input and output return losses are better than -10dB in the frequency band from 8GHz up to 18GHz.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117287849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}