Respiration and Heartbeat Rates Measurement Based on Autocorrelation Using IR-UWB Radar

Respiration rate (RR) and heartbeat rate (HR) are important physiological parameters for a person. Impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) is a promising technology for non-contact sensing and monitoring. This brief presents a new method based on autocorrelation to measure the RR and HR using IR-UWB radar. The correlation coefficient waveform contains the vital sign signals, overcoming the effect of noise and clutter. Applying fast Fourier transform, the respiration frequency can be acquired easily. A clever method also based on autocorrelation is proposed to locate the subject. The receive signal matrix is divided into a set of bins in the direction of fast time. By removing one block from the matrix each time and re-applying the autocorrelation, the removed block resulting the smallest correlations is corresponding to the location of a subject. Moreover, variational mode decomposition algorithm is adopted to successfully separate the respiration and heartbeat signals. Experiments are carried out using a PulsOn410 UWB radar. The results show that the proposed low-complexity algorithm has high accuracy.

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