Projects | Radar Array Research

Wireless sensing and localization utilizes pervasive RF energy to detect and understand activities in the physical environment, unencumbered by obstructions, lighting, smoke, dust, rain or other interference sources that plague alternative sensing technologies. To that end, our research focuses on two key pillars of wireless sensing: Cooperative radar sensing, and radar array design.

Cooperative radar sensing utilizes new techniques to automatically synchronize radar signals from small, widely dispersed, radar units to enable coordinated sensing across a wide region at low cost, and low overhead. Such techniques are important given the rapid availability of low-cost RF sensors that are embedded into everyday smart devices, such as TVs, smart speakers, cellphones, and smart watches.

Radar array research focuses on the development of centrally managed, tightly coordinated radar platforms that can be seamlessly embedded into existing physical environments, so that every-day places can be quickly turned into truly digitized environments.