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Ultrawideband RADIO application for localisation of hidden people and deTECTion of unauthorised objects

Brief Summary:

The RADIOTECT project was focussed on supporting Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) to become more innovative through cooperation with leading research and technological development organisations (RTOs) in the specific area of wideband radio for the detection of hidden people and objects. The main overall achievements were in summary:

A high resolution radar prototype working with the M-Sequence technique was developed to enable security forces to detect persons hidden behind walls and a high resolution radar prototype also working with the M-Sequence technique was developed to enable rescue forces to detect persons trapped under rubble.

A further high resolution radar prototype working with the sub-nano second impulse technique was developed which demonstrates the ability to detect movement including heart beat and breathing also for security or rescue applications.

3 prototype systems working with the sub-nano second impulse radar technique up to 18 GHz were developed to investigate the challenge of imaging objects hidden behind clothes.

These achievements were enabled through advances in the state of the art for radar electronics and algorithms for person detection and tracking and localisation.

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Project details:

Framework Programme 6
COOP-CT-2006-032744
1 January 2007 to 30 June 2009
Budget: 2.303.099,00 EUR

Publications:

J. Sachs, M. Aftanas , S. Crabbe, M. Drutarovsky, R. Klukas, D. Kocur, T.T. Nguyen, P. Peyerl,  J. Rovnakova and E. Zaikov; Detection and tracking of moving or trapped people hidden by obstacles using ultra-wideband pseudo-noise radar; EURAD, Radar Conference; IEEE, (ISBN 978-2-87487-009-5), p. 408-411, Amsterdam, 2008.

S. Crabbe, M. Aftanas, P-A Berthlin, M. Drutarovsky, R. Klukas, D. Kocur, T.T. Nguyen, P. Peyerl, J. Rovnakova, J. Sachs and E. Zaikov; Ultra wideband radar for through wall detection from the RADIOTECT project; 3rd Future Security, Security Research Conference Proceedings; K. Thoma (Eds.), (ISBN 978-3-8167-7598-0), p.299-304, Berlin, 2008.

R. Zetik, S. Crabbe, J. Krajnak, P. Peyerl, J. Sachs and R. Thoma; Detection and localization of persons behind obstacles using M- sequence through-the-wall radar; Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense V; M. Edward (Eds.), Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6201, 2006.