Microwave Systems
| Wireless Positioning |
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There is a great interest around the potential impact of positioning systems for GPS-denied scenarios for their consequences in the scientific and the social community. The position awareness that comes from the localization procedure has great impact in various research field, especially in the field of Internet of Things, where the positional information can boost specific routing operations (adaptability, latency, throughput) of a network. The position awareness can be also exploited for a wide spectrum of context-aware applications which span from art monitoring to surveillance application, from asset management to indoor navigation and so on. |
 
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| The video of the live-demo showing the positioning system can be seen here |
| MIMO Radar |
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The detection of mobile autonomus objects of micro/nano dimensions, is becoming a hot topic, due to their large diffusion, and represents a challenging task. The Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar architecture in a MIMO configuration has been identified as the most suitable solution for this purpose, due to its inherent short-range detection capability. The system architecture of the MIMO FMCW radar is illustrated in the Fig. it is dimensioned according to the case study .
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| Digital beam forming permits the scanning of the azimuthal angle while the FMCW processing the range estimation |
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