Bistatic MIMO Radar Sensing of Specularly Reflecting Surfaces for Wireless Power Transfer

Citation Author(s):
Benjamin J. B.
Deutschmann
Graz University of Technology
Maximilian
Graber
Graz University of Technology
Thomas
Wilding
Graz University of Technology
Klaus
Witrisal
Graz University of Technology
Submitted by:
Benjamin Deutschmann
Last updated:
Tue, 08/22/2023 - 07:41
DOI:
10.1109/ICASSPW59220.2023.10193617
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Abstract 

Bistatic MIMO Radar Sensing

This dataset includes the synthetic aperture measurement data and code accompanying the publication "Bistatic MIMO Radar Sensing of Specularly Reflecting Surfaces for Wireless Power Transfer" [1].

Description:

The measurement data VNA_20220722_232002_XETS_reduced.mat includes a channel matrix R acquired with a synthetic aperture measurement testbed described in [2] and [3].
Measured were Nf=1000 frequency steps in a band from 3-10GHz of the scattering parameter S21 between a synthetic 51-ULA with antenna positions saved in the file ULA.mat and a synthetic (13x13)-URA with antenna positions saved in the file URA.mat.
The file XETSantennaCharacterization.mat holds antenna gains of an XETS antenna [4] characterized in an anechoic chamber. XETS antennas were used on both the ULA (oriented towards the negative x-direction) and on the URA (oriented towards the positive x-direction).
These data have been used to perform ultra-wideband (UWB) bistatic radar imaging and wireless power transfer (WPT).
Our implementation is provided in MAIN_wall_detection.mat. We invite readers to look at the tasks we have solved with the given dataset in [1] and encourage them to implement their own methods.

Instructions: 

To use the dataset, it is sufficient to load the respective data files. It is not necessary to run any scripts, however, the first sections in MAIN_wall_detection.mat may provide some guidance on how the data may be used.
Load the .mat-files in Matlab using the load(<filename>) command. Each file contains data that can be used to perform bistatic MIMO radar imaging:

VNA_20220722_232002_XETS_reduced.mat: Contains a (Nf x M x N) matrix R holding Nf MIMO channel matrices of dimensions (M x N) and an Nf-vector frequencies holding the frequency-domain steps in the band 3-10GHz.
ULA.mat: Contains a struct ULA holding the center of gravity position p of the ULA in global coordinates and a (3xM) matrix pm of antenna positions relative to p.
URA.mat: Contains a struct URA with three N-vectors xv, xv, and zv, holding the positions of the ULA antennas in global coordinates.
XETSantennaCharacterization.mat: Contains a struct antennaCharacterization holding the measured Gain of an XETS antenna [4] as a function of spherical coordinates Phi and Theta, and the Frequency. Note that the characterization is valid only for the ULA-side, where an absorber is mounted on the "backside" of the antenna which effectively removes the rear-lobe facing the wall. Polarization vectors were aligned with the z-axis. Measurement reference planes are located at the antenna ports after calibration - the antennas can be de-embedded by accounting for an electrical length of approx. 40cm (i.e., 20cm on both the TX and RX side).

References:
(Unpublished work will appear under https://reindeer-project.eu/results-downloads/ .)
[1] B. J.B. Deutschmann, M. Graber, T. Wilding and K. Witrisal, "Bistatic MIMO Radar Sensing of Specularly Reflecting Surfaces for Wireless Power Transfer," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICASSPW59220.2023.10193617.
[2] REINDEER Project, “Propagation characteristics and channel models for RadioWeaves including reflectarrays,” Deliverable ICT-52-2020 / D1.2, 2023 (unpublished).
[3] REINDEER Project, “System design study for energy-neutral devices interacting with the RadioWeaves infrastructure,” Deliverable ICT-52-2020 / D4.1, 2023 (unpublished).
[4] J. R. Costa, C. R. Medeiros, and C. A. Fernandes, “Performance of a crossed exponentially tapered slot antenna for UWB systems,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1345–1352, May 2009.

Funding Agency: 
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
Grant Number: 
101013425

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A preprint of the paper is now available on arXiv.

Submitted by Benjamin Deutschmann on Mon, 05/15/2023 - 09:48

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