Reusing 60GHz Radios for Mobile Radar Imaging

The future of mobile computing involves autonomous drones, robots and vehicles. To accurately sense their surroundings in a variety of scenarios, these mobile computers require a robust environmental mapping system. One attractive approach is to reuse millimeterwave communication hardware in these devices, e.g. 60GHz networking chipset, and capture signals reflected by the target surface. The devices can also move while collecting reflection signals, creating a large synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for high-precision RF imaging. Our experimental measurements, however, show that this approach provides poor precision in practice, as imaging results are highly sensitive to device positioning errors that translate into phase errors. We address this challenge by proposing a new 60GHz imaging algorithm, RSS Series Analysis, which images an object using only RSS measurements recorded along the device’s trajectory. In addition to object location, our algorithm can discover a rich set of ob...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: MOBICOM
• Authors: Yanzi Zhu, Yibo Zhu, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
• Keywords: Communications, MOBICOM 2015