Radar Echoes Simulation of Human Movements Based on MOCAP Data and EM Calculation

Radar echoes simulation has played a significant role in human detection and classification in the scenarios, e.g., antiterrorism, rescue after a disaster and medical, where the real-measured data are generally unavailable and limited. Therefore, a novel radar echoes simulation method of human movements is proposed based on motion capture (MOCAP) and electromagnetic (EM) calculation. First, we generate the trajectories of body segments from the true shape and MOCAP data of a human body. On the basis of that, the radar echoes are simulated by calculating the EM scattering characteristics, i.e., radar cross sections (RCSs) of all the gestures of each body segment’s trajectory. Meanwhile, the micro-Doppler characteristics induced by the micromotion of human body segments are modulated in simulated radar echoes. Finally, comparisons between the simulated radar echoes and measured ones prove the validity of the proposed method. Some refinement for RCS calculation of the human body will be investigated in our future work.

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