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Abstract—Doppler radar is a compact, microwave sensor for the radar antenna surface (at boresight direction). We assume
detecting vibration of the target object, from a distance. In this that the vibration of the plate follows a simple harmonic
paper, Doppler only measurements are used to characterize the motion (SHM) and is given as
vibrational properties namely vibration amplitude and the
frequency. The focus of the study is to understand the potential ( )= sin (1)
effect of the measurement environment on measurement Here, we follow the line of arguments provided by Li et al.
quality. The investigations lead us to propose a system consisting
[18, 19]. Considering, fT and θ(t) being the transmitted
of two single channel radars (in lieu of one quadrature radar),
frequency and phase noise of the signal source, respectively,
spatially separated both along range and azimuth directions.
The proposed system introduces diversity, ensures robustness in we can represent the backscattered signal as.
detection while keeping the system design cost-effective in large
scale deployments.
I. INTRODUCTION
Mechanically vibrating systems illuminated by a radar
system display frequency modulation caused by the time-
varying delay between the object of interest and the radar thus
resulting in Doppler shift of the echo signal. This fundamental
principal has given rise to a plethora of emerging applications Fig. 1. Schematic of the system consisting of Doppler radar monitoring a
such as radar interferometry [1], structural health monitoring vibrating plate.
[2-6], range imaging [7], mechanical vibration sensing [8-12], ( )
vital signs detection [13-16] etc. In addition, with the ( )= cos{ 2 ( )− − + ( − )} (2)
introduction of micro-motions in radar observations by Victor
Chen et al. [17] applications such as finer gained human The received signal R(t) is mixed with source T(t) and the IF
activity detection, through-the wall target signature detection output is B(t).
have gained immense popularity. That, the spectral analysis of Let us define: = 4 ⁄ as the phase shift due to range
radar backscattered signal leads to Bessel function and ∆ ( ) = ( ) − ( − 2 ⁄ ) be the residual phase noise.
representation is well established [18, 19]. Li et al. [19] have Hence, the normalized baseband signal B(t) can be
demonstrated that the vibration amplitude can be exactly represented as:
derived from the ratios of even (or odd) order harmonics of
( )
the received signal. However, the said characterization is not ( ) = cos( + + ∆ ( )) (3)
extended to include the effects of phase noise. We conducted
extensive experiments in order to study this effect. Initially, we assume that the phase noise given by ∆ ( )
remains constant over the period of measurement. Thus we
In this paper, the experimentation results are presented can define it as ∆ and define total phase effect as
whose analysis reflects the fact that the received signal
strength is strongly dependent on this phase component which = +∆ ( ) (4)
can also be attributed to the range and multipath effects. We
Then equation 3 can be rewritten as [20]
extend this observation to propose a system consisting of two
low-cost, single channel CW radar (in lieu of a sensitive I/Q 4
radar) to mitigate the above stated effects and enhance the ( ) = 2. cos(2 ). cos( )
robustness of measurement. The objective is to build a radar
4
based automated monitoring system which is not hampered by − 2. sin (2
dynamic changes in the measurement environment.
4
+ 1) . sin( ) + . cos( )
II. MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE
The schematic of the proposed system is shown in fig. 1. (5)
Let us consider a monstatic, homodyne CW radar operating at
transmitting frequency of 10.525GHz (HB100 radar module) Equation 5 represents the frequency spectrum of the
and monitoring a vibrating plate located at a distance d0 from received baseband signal which consists of the fundamental
(a)