reflect

Reflected signal from walking pedestrian

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Syntax

Y = reflect(pedestrian,X,ANG)

Description

Y = reflect(pedestrian,X,ANG) returns the reflected signal, Y, from incident signals, X, on a pedestrian. The reflected signal is the sum of signals from all body segments. ANG defines the directions of the incident and reflected signals with respect to the body segments.

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Compute the reflected radar signal from a pedestrian moving along the x-axis away from the origin. The radar operates at 24 GHz and is located at the origin. The pedestrian is initially 100 meters from the radar. Transmit a linear FM waveform having a 300 MHz bandwidth. The reflected signal is captured at the moment the pedestrian starts to move and at two seconds into the motion.

Create a linear FM waveform and a free space channel to propagate the waveform.

c = physconst('Lightspeed');
bw = 300.0e6;
fs = bw;
fc = 24.0e9;
wav = phased.LinearFMWaveform('SampleRate',fs,'SweepBandwidth',bw);
x = wav();
channel = phased.FreeSpace('OperatingFrequency',fc,'SampleRate',fs, ...
    'TwoWayPropagation',true);

Create the pedestrian object. Set the initial position of the pedestrian to 100 m on the x-axis with initial heading along the positive x-direction. The pedestrian height is 1.8 m and the pedestrian is walking at 0.5 meters per second.

pedest = backscatterPedestrian( 'Height',1.8, ...
    'OperatingFrequency',fc,'InitialPosition',[100;0;0], ...
    'InitialHeading',0,'WalkingSpeed',0.5);

The first call to the move function returns the initial position, initial velocity, and initial orientation of all body segments and then advances the pedestrian motion two seconds ahead.

[bppos,bpvel,bpax] = move(pedest,2,0);

Transmit the first pulse to the pedestrian. Create 16 replicas of the signal and propagate them to the positions of the pedestrian body segments. Use the rangeangle function to compute the arrival angle of each replica at the corresponding body segment. Then use the reflect function to return the coherent sum of all the reflected signals from the body segments at the pedestrian initial position. 

radarpos = [0;0;0];
xp = channel(repmat(x,1,16),radarpos,bppos,[0;0;0],bpvel);
[~,ang] = rangeangle(radarpos,bppos,bpax);
y0 = reflect(pedest,xp,ang);

Obtain the position, velocity, and orientation of each body segment then advance the pedestrian motion another two seconds.

[bppos,bpvel,bpax] = move(pedest,2,0);

Transmit and propagate the second pulse to the new position of the pedestrian.

radarpos = [0;0;0];
xp = channel(repmat(x,1,16),radarpos,bppos,[0;0;0],bpvel);
[~,ang] = rangeangle(radarpos,bppos,bpax);
y1 = reflect(pedest,xp,ang);

Match-filter and plot both of the reflected pulses. The plot shows the increased delay of the matched filter output as the pedestrian walks away.

filter = phased.MatchedFilter('Coefficients',getMatchedFilter(wav));
ymf = filter([y0 y1]);
t = (0:size(ymf,1)-1)/fs;
plot(t*1e6,abs(ymf))
xlabel('Time (microsec)')
ylabel('Magnitude')
title('Match-Filtered Reflected Signals')
legend('Signal 1','Signal 2')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Match-Filtered Reflected Signals, xlabel Time (microsec), ylabel Magnitude contains 2 objects of type line. These objects represent Signal 1, Signal 2.

Zoom in and show the time delays for each signal.

plot(t*1e6,abs(ymf))
xlabel('Time (microsec)')
ylabel('Magnitude')
title('Matched-Filtered Reflected Signals')
axis([50.65 50.7 0 .0026])
legend('Signal 1','Signal 2')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Matched-Filtered Reflected Signals, xlabel Time (microsec), ylabel Magnitude contains 2 objects of type line. These objects represent Signal 1, Signal 2.

Input Arguments

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Pedestrian target model, specified as a backscatterPedestrian object.

Incident radar signals on each body segment, specified as a complex-valued M-by-16 matrix. M is the number of samples in the signal. See Body Segment Indices for the column representing the incident signal at each body segment.

Data Types: double
Complex Number Support: Yes

Directions of incident signals on the body segments, specified as a real-valued 2-by-16 matrix. Each column of ANG specifies the incident direction of the signal to the corresponding body part. Each column takes the form of an azimuth-elevation pair, [AzimuthAngle;ElevationAngle]. Units are in degrees. See Body Segment Indices for the column representing the incident direction at each body segment.

Data Types: double

Output Arguments

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Combined reflected radar signals, returned as a complex-valued M-by-1 column vector. M equals the same number of samples as in the input signal, X.

Data Types: double
Complex Number Support: Yes

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Version History

Introduced in R2019a

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