Through‐the‐floor localization of a static person by a multistatic UWB radar

A new approach to through‐the‐floor localization of a static person using an ultra‐wide band (UWB) radar is introduced in this article. The proposed solution is based on a multilateration method appropriately modified for target localization by a multistatic UWB radar employing 1 transmitting (Tx) and 4 receiving antennas (Rxi). Due to an appropriate radar antenna array layout, a geometrical interpretation of the considered problem of localization allows finding the target coordinates by a simple computation of 2 intersections of 2 pairs of ellipses. The mentioned ellipses are defined by the antenna layout and time‐of‐arrivals corresponding to the target that were estimated for the particular pairs of Tx–Rxi antennas. Experimental analysis of the proposed method of through‐the‐floor localization of a person confirmed its good accuracy, despite being such a complex scenario.

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