Speaker
Professor Aly Fathy, University of Tennessee
Topic
UltraWide Band Radars for See Through Wall Application and Vital Sign Detection
Abstract
Ultra Wide band (UWB) technology has been the subject of extensive research in recent years due to its potential applications and unique capabilities. Particularly, there is a lot of emphasis on See-Through-Wall applications. Current homeland security issues have encouraged extensive work in the field of short-pulse radar. The primary advantages of UWB impulse radar for short-range radar imaging include: (i) extremely fine range resolution, (ii) high power efficiency, (iii) low probability of detection, (iv) low interference to legacy systems, and (v) its ability to track stationary or moving targets. Various types of radars have been successfully utilized including continuous wave CW, Frequency modulated FMCW, Impulse UWB, and step frequency continuous wave SFCW. Our group has explored the use of both UWB and SFCW radars to monitor human activities (gait analysis) and non-contact monitoring of health information such as respiration and heartbeat. In this talk, I will focus on presenting our recent group’s work on implementing various UWB techniques for see though wall, imaging, and non-contact vital sign detection applications.
Biography
Aly E. Fathy (S’82–M’84–SM’92–F’04) received his B.S.E.E. degree, B.S. degree in pure and applied mathematics, and M.S.E.E. degree from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1975, 1979, and 1980, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, in 1984. In February 1985, he joined the RCA Research Laboratory (Sarnoff)/ (currently SRI International), Princeton, NJ, as a Member of the Technical Staff. In 2001, he became a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. In 2003, he joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; currently he is a James W. McConnell Professor. He has authored or coauthored numerous transactions and conference papers. He holds 12 U.S. patents. He was the recipient of five Sarnoff Outstanding Achievement Awards (1988, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999), Gonzalez family research excellence award (2005), two research excellence awards from the College of Engineering, University of Tennessee (2009, 2011), Lamar Alexander Chancellor’s Excellence Award in superior teaching and scholarship in 2011, research and creative achievement award in 2013, and in 2014 he was recognized by the Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Advising Award.
Invited by Professor Raafat Mansour.