Remote Material Characterization with Complex Baseband FMCW Radar Sensors
PROGRESS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS RESEARCH-PIER(2023)
摘要
This paper presents the theoretical basis and experimental validation for a technique to remotely characterize materials using FMCW radar sensors with complex baseband architecture. Our theoretical work proves that the magnitude and phase of the input reflection coefficient of a material can be accurately extracted from the baseband data of a complex-baseband FMCW radar. This complex reflection coefficient can be used to calculate the dielectric constant, loss tangent, thickness, and layer setup of a material with high accuracy due to the extra information obtained from the phase of the reflection coefficient. The analysis starts with a theoretical model for the complex reflection coefficient of a flat material slab suspended in air. We then introduce a formulation for the complex reflection coefficient existing in the complex baseband of an FMCW radar signal. We finally present the experimental testing preformed using TI mmWave radar on two different material samples and introduce the test results for extracting the material dielectric properties and thickness using three different extraction methods compared against nominal values from literature. The test results prove the high accuracy of our technique resulting from the utilization of both magnitude and phase information of the input refection coefficient, despite the relatively long free-space measurement distance and the multi-path reflections test environment.
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remote material characterization,baseband
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