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Renato Cicchetti1, Stefano Pisa1, Emanuele Piuzzi1
1Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
A 24 GHz radar, useful for remote vital signs monitoring, operating in linear/circular polarization (LP/CP), was developed to analyze vital signs detection performance in the presence of environmental clutter. The radar system, equipped with horn antennas with and without suitable LP-CP field polarization converters, is designed for monitoring respiratory and cardiac activity in domestic and hospital environments. A geometric optics (GO) model is introduced to show the advantages of circularly polarized (CP) radar sensors over linearly polarized (LP) ones in discriminating vital signals in scenarios where vibrating metallic panels simulate environmental disturbance (worst case). An analytical model, numerical computations, and experimental investigations highlighted the robustness of CP radar sensors in detecting vital signs in the presence of environmental clutter.
