Preliminary Results of Ultra-Wideband Through-the-wall Life-detecting Radar

It is often a difficult task of knowing the location or movement of people behind barriers. To address this problem, we develop a through-the-wall life-detecting radar (TWLDR) prototype. It is a kind of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar using impulse waveform, which can penetrate non-metallic walls to detect static and moving targets behind walls. We first introduce configurations of the radar system, then describe signal processing techniques, and present experimental results in different situations at last. Results indicate that the UWB TWLDR can penetrate non-metallic walls to detect people with different locomotion states such as standing, walking along cross-range direction, walking along range direction, and the signal processing algorithm could be applied to other complex environments.