A novel target state detection method for accurate cardiopulmonary signal extraction based on FMCW radar signals

Frequency-modulated continuous wave radar is capable of constant, real-time detection of human presence and monitoring of cardiopulmonary signals such as respiration and heartbeat. In highly cluttered environments or when the human body moves randomly, noise signals may be relatively large in some range bins, making it crucial to accurately select the range bin containing the target cardiopulmonary signal. In this paper, we propose a target range bin selection algorithm based on a mixed-modal information threshold. We introduce a confidence value in the frequency domain to determine the state of the human target and employ the range bin variance in the time domain to determine the range bin change status of the target. The proposed method accurately detects the state of the target and effectively selects the range bin containing the cardiopulmonary signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better accuracy in cardiopulmonary signal rate estimation. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is lightweight in data processing and has good real-time performance.

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This paper proposes a target range bin selection algorithm based on a mixed-modal information threshold, which is used to accurately select the range bin containing the cardiopulmonary signal in cluttered environments. The algorithm determines the state of the target by introducing a confidence value in the frequency domain and the range bin change status of the target by using the range bin variance in the time domain. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better accuracy in cardiopulmonary signal rate estimation.