COURSEWORK DETAILS

 SUBJECTS:
 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (ENGG/SC)
 RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS
 SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

• EXAMINATION RESULT:
 QUALIFIED IN JULY 2021

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CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 LITERATURE REVIEW
 RESEARCH GAPS
 OBJECTIVES
 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 TOOLS
 PROPOSED TIMEPLAN
 REFERENCES

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INTRODUCTION

 THROUGH THE WALL RADAR IMAGING

 IDENTIFY OBJECTS BEHIND WALLS

• APPLICATIONS:
 DISASTER RECOVERY MISSIONS
 SECURITY OPERATIONS
 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

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INTRODUCTION
 TYPES OF TTWR
 WIFI BASED
 RADIO TAMOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM
 TRADITIONAL THROUGH-WALL RADAR
 ULTRA WIDEBAND
 DOPPLER
 FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE
 SOFTWARE DEFINE RADIO (SDR) DEVICES

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INTRODUCTION

 CONSTRAINTS
 SIGNAL ATTENUATION
 SIGNAL MEASUREMENT
 MUTIPATH EFECT
 MIRROR EFFECT

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 LITERATURE REVIEW
AUTHO TITLE FINDINGS REMARKS
R NAME

LALIDA DESIGNING OF UWB PULSE  UWB GENERATION BY FPGA THROUGH  PRODUCES PULSE WITH PULSE
ET AL GENERATION IN FPGA
[27] BASED ON DELAY LINE DELAY LINE METHOD WIDTH 575PS AND
METHOD FOR HUMAN BANDWIDTH OF 3.83GHZ
2019 RANGE THROUGH THE
WALL DETECTING
APPLICATION  RESULTS CHECKED UPTO 2 M

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 LITERATURE REVIEW

AUTHO TITLE FINDINGS REMARKS

R NAME

A WOOD, R. THROUGH-THE-  EXPLORES THE THROUGH-THE-WALL INVERSE  MULTIPLE TARGETS, MOVING

WOOD, AND WALL RADAR
M. DETECTION SCATTERING PROBLEM VIA MACHINE TARGETS, TARGETS WITH
CHARNLEY USING MACHINE LEARNING. MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS CAN
[2] LEARNING
  ALSO BE INCORPORATED
2020  RF DATA WAS GENERATED BY NUMERICALLY FURTHER IN THE RESEARCH.
MODELING THE MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS.  RF DATA MAY BE FURTHER
GENERATED WITH ACTUAL
EXPERIMENT SETUP TO TEST
IN PRACTICAL SCENARIO.

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 LITERATURE REVIEW
AUTHOR TITLE FINDINGS REMARKS
NAME
S. A NEW MONITORING •AUTHOR HAS USED ALTERNATING THIS DETECTION SCHEME
TECHNIQUE FOR FAULT DIRECTION METHOD OF MULTIPLIERS CAN ALSO APPLIED FOR
VISHWAKARMA
DETECTION AND (ADMM) TO MAKE THE AUTO-ENCODERS DIFFERENT TYPE OF WALLS
ET.A [3] CLASSIFICATION IN PV IN FORMING THE MACHINE LEARNING  
SYSTEMS BASED ON MODEL FOR MITIGATING THE TARGET IDENTIFICATION
2020 RATE OF CHANGE OF INTERFERENCE EFFECT OF WALL. CAN ALSO BE INCORPORATED
VOLTAGE-CURRENT
TRAJECTORY •A WIDEBAND IMAGING RADAR WALABOT
HAS BEEN USED FOR COLLECTING
FRONTAL IMAGES BOTH IN FREE SPACE
AND THROUGH THE WALL CONDITION.

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 LITERATURE REVIEW

AUTHOR TITLE FINDINGS REMARKS

NAME

Y. LI, W. A TECHNIQUE • AUTOENCODER ALGORITHM (LAYER BY LAYER EXPERIMENT IS LIMITED TO ONE

WANG, AND FOR FAULT GREEDY TRAINING ALGORITHM) WAS UTILIZED PARTICULAR CONCRETE WALL.
Y. JIANG [13] DETECTION, FOR ACHIEVING DETECTION OF HUMAN BEHIND  
IDENTIFICATION THE WALL. THIS DETECTION SCHEME CAN
2018 AND LOCATION   ALSO APPLIED FOR DIFFERENT
IN SOLAR • THE ADDITION OF DENOISING ENCODER AND TYPE OF WALLS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SPARSITY CONSTRAINTS INTO THE AUTOENCODER
SYSTEMS NETWORK PROPOSED HEREIN ENABLES BETTER
EXTRACTION OF INHERENT DATA
CHARECTERISTICS.

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 RESEARCH GAP
 DEVELOPMENT OF FRONT END MODULES
 UWB GENERATOR
 ANTENNA ADAPTABLE TO UWB SIGNAL
 ACQUISITION OF UWB SIGNAL

• LOCALIZATION/IDENTIFICATION OF OBJECTS WITH HIGHER

PRECISION

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 OBJECTIVES
 TO DEVELOP OPTIMAL UWB WAVEFORM USING FPGA FOR THROUGH-THE-
WALL RADAR (TTWR) IMAGING.

 TO DETECT, CLASSIFY AND IDENTIFY OBJECTS BY DESIGNING &

IMPLEMENTING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE.
 
 TO ANALYSE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVELOPED UWB WAVEFORM
THROUGH NOVEL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL IN THROUGH THE WALL
SCENARIOS.

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 OBJECTIVE-1: TO DEVELOP OPTIMAL UWB WAVEFORM USING FPGA

FOR THROUGH-THE-WALL RADAR (TTWR) IMAGING

 STUDY ON PERFORMANCE OF UWB WAVEFORMS USING VECTOR NETWORK

ANALYZER (VNA) WILL BE CARRIED OUT.

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 OBJECTIVE-1: TO DEVELOP OPTIMAL UWB WAVEFORM USING FPGA

FOR THROUGH-THE-WALL RADAR (TTWR) IMAGING
 DEVELOPMENT OF FPGA BASED SYSTEM TO GENERATE UWB WAVEFORM

 IMPLEMENTATION OF FPGA MODEL AND STUDY ON THE WAVEFORM RESULTS

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 OBJECTIVE-2: TO DETECT, CLASSIFY AND IDENTIFY OBJECTS BY

DESIGNING & IMPLEMENTING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE

 HYBRID ML APPROACH WILL BE USED FOR LOCALISATION OF OBJECTS

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 OBJECTIVE-3: TO ANALYSE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVELOPED UWB

WAVEFORM THROUGH NOVEL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL IN THROUGH
THE WALL SCENARIOS

NOVEL ML MODEL WILL BEIMPLEMENTED AND ANALYSED ON THE RF

DATASET OBTAINED THROUGH FPGA BASED SYSTEM

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 TOOLS

 XILINX VIVADO 17.4 FOR CHIP DESIGN, SIMULATION AND FUNCTIONAL

SYNTHESIS


 MODELSIM FOR FUNCTIONAL SIMULATION OF DESIGN

 VIRTEX-5, VIRTEX-7 FPGA FOR HARDWARE TESTING OF THE DESIGN.

 TENSORFLOW PLATFORM FOR ML MODEL

 VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER (VNA)

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PROPOSED TIMEPLAN
2021 2022 2023
JUL NOV APR JU SEP DEC MAR JUN
N
Course work

Literature survey

Term paper 1 &

development of optimal
waveform through FPGA
Term paper 2 &
development of novel ML
model for analysis of TTWR
Analyses of RF dataset
obtained through FPGA
based model through novel
ML model
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