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Indoor positioning system based on the UWB technique
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Enhancing user safety constitutes a major issue in railway transport. In this paper, a novel solu... more Enhancing user safety constitutes a major issue in railway transport. In this paper, a novel solution for detection and identification of objects falling on railway tracks is proposed. This solution is based on a system using a set of consecutive ultra wideband (UWB) monostatic radars fed by a common transmission line. The main objective of this work is to study the different radiofrequency and signal processing subsets in order to evaluate and validate the full system. A slotted waveguide operating in its fundamental mode is used as the common transmission line. Slots are periodically perforated in the waveguide to constitute the monostatic radars. The Singularity Expansion Method (SEM) is used to characterize the objects falling on railway tracks. Complex Natural Resonances are then computed or measured and stored in a library. They are used in a specific discrimination process. Using both numerical simulations and experimental results, the discrimination process shows that human bodies are well detected and distinguished as well as other objects typically found on platform (suitcases, bottles.. .
Guide d'onde à fentes pour la détection des chutes sur les voies ferroviaires
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Multi-users UWB inter vehicles communication system using MGF and DS-CDMA
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2008
Codage numérique appliqué au radar embarqué routier
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2009
Train localization based on UWB and time reversal
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 19, 2014
Positioning system using the SS-Ultra wide Band technique for transport application
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Several techniques have been developed for position location in a two dimension (2-D) system but ... more Several techniques have been developed for position location in a two dimension (2-D) system but few techniques have been done in a three dimension (3-D) context. Some of the techniques and algorithms proposed for 3-D are often subject to accuracy problems. We propose in this paper a novel technique of 3-D indoor position location. This method relies on techniques for ultra wide band (UWB) transmissions. The location algorithm is in terms of time difference of Arrival (TDOA). Numerical simulations show that the proposed approach improves precision of 3-D position location.
Performances study of micropower UWB radar using orthogonal waveforms
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security o... more Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security or weather service domains. For a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, radar applica- tions have been developed and have become known in the civil domain. In particular, the arrival of UWB—Ultra-Wideband technology allows the design of compact and low-cost radars with multi- ple fields of application. In this paper, we focus on road applications, such as driving assistance with the objective of increasing safety and reducing accidents. In classical UWB radar systems, Gaussian and monocycle pulses are commonly used. In previous works, original waveforms based on orthogonal functions (Hermite and Gegenbauer) were proposed. These provide a good spatial resolution, suitable for radar detection. Another advantage of these waveforms is their multiple access capability, due to their orthogonality. The aim of the study presented in this article is to compare simulation and experimental results obtained, especially for short-range anticollision radar application, using these waveforms in one part and Gaussian and monocycle pulses in the other part. The originality of this paper relies on the new approach. Indeed, this comparison study using these waveforms has never been done before. Finally, some examples of real experiments in a real road environment with different waveforms are presented and analysed.
Computation of correlation and cumulant 4 under FPGA architecture
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 1, 2016
Simulation électromagnétique d'une structure rayonnante entre 2 et 6 GHz
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
InTech eBooks, Oct 10, 2012
Dr. Fouzia Elbahhar Boukour was born in 1975. She received the M.S and Ph.D degrees form the Univ... more Dr. Fouzia Elbahhar Boukour was born in 1975. She received the M.S and Ph.D degrees form the University of Valenciennes (France) in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is actually employed as researcher at IFSTTAR/ LEOST, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Fouzia Boukour is author or coauthor of more than 50 research papers, including journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. She participates at many national and European projects dedicated to transport applications. She serves also as a reviewer for several journals and international Conference. She is involved in signal processing especially Ultra wide band technology. Her major research interests are land transportation like Communication Vehicle to Vehicle and vehicle to XII Preface In this book, the chapters are organised in three main topic areas: Section 1: "Satellite Systems for Positioning" consists of chapters which cover whole satellite system (GPS, GNSS) and some applications using this system. It consists of three chapters. The first chapter is related to the satellite Localization system especially The GNSS system. In fact, the authors present some results in terms of precision related the application the GNSS receivers in agricultural applications. The second chapter presents new concepts to calculate the coordinates of GNSS stations, existing in some countries, in the international reference systems using information and applying a methodology of rigorous processing and adjusting. This technique has proved to be advantageous when the objective is to introduce the Reference System simultaneously with the precision and parameters estimation. The last chapter of this section deals with the use of GPS technology in the determination of the one-way speed of light. Section 2: "Wireless Sensor Network Localization Techniques", is dedicated to the Localization applications using the wireless sensor networks. The section consists of five chapters. The first chapters are related the applications of UWB Localization system especially applied to building construction environments and the transport applications. The third chapter is related to the capacitive transmit-mode measurement methods that can be used to passively track an individual indoors in three dimensions and nonintrusive. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the concepts for an indoor Localization system suitable for a Wireless Sensor Network in a GPS-denied scenario way. The last chapter is dedicated to the off-the-shelf positioning system using IEEE802.11 wireless local area network technology without any additional devices. Section 3: "Coupled GPS and other sensors", consists of three chapters. The first two chapters present some results for Inertial Navigation System/GPS association and some applications of this coupling. The last chapter discusses some interesting results concerning the development and implementation of a "System On Programmable Chip" SOPC based on portable positioning systems PPS, which is capable of handling the datafused positioning and can provide user a feasible way to obtain their position anywhere. The editor would like to thank all authors for their contribution, and all those people who directly or indirectly helped make this work. We hope the information included will be useful for Communication & Localization Engineers, Signal Processing Engineers and the academic researchers occupied in the field of indoor and outdoor Localization systems.
New adaptive architectures of coding and modulation UWB for infrastructure vehicle communication
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
Photovoltaic-thermoelectric (PV-TE) hybrid system for thermal energy harvesting in low-power sensors
Materials Today: Proceedings
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
This paper presents a novel vehicular environment identification approach based on deep learning.... more This paper presents a novel vehicular environment identification approach based on deep learning. It consists of exploiting the vehicular wireless channel characteristics in the form of Channel State Information (CSI) in the receiver side of a connected vehicle in order to identify the environment type in which the vehicle is driving, without any need to implement specific sensors such as cameras or radars. We consider environment identification as a classification problem, and propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to deal with it. The estimated CSI is used as the input feature to train the model. To perform the identification process, the model is targeted for implementation in an autonomous vehicle connected to a vehicular network (VN). The proposed model is extensively evaluated, showing that it can reliably recognize the surrounding environment with high accuracy (96.48%). Our model is compared to related approaches and state-ofthe-art classification architectures. The experiments show that our proposed model yields favorable performance compared to all other considered methods.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
In this paper, a short range radar system based on UWB -Ultra-Wide-Band-technology for road safet... more In this paper, a short range radar system based on UWB -Ultra-Wide-Band-technology for road safety application is presented. During a long time, the radar and its applications were reserved to national defence, air security domains or weather services. Since a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, the radar applications are being extended to many sectors of daily life. UWB -Ultra Wide Band-is a new radio technique based on the emission of very short non-sinusoidal pulses duration, that have, typically, widths less than 1.5 ns, so that the spectrum of the emitted signals may spread over several Gigahertz . All exiting studies on UWB radar concerns essentially medical and military applications and only some studies were interested in UWB radar, for the obstacles detection, such as mines detection, detection of the heart wall movements by medical imagery or the monitoring through the walls for military operations . In this paper, we propose to exploit the UWB technology for road radar application, in order to profit from its inherent advantages such as good range resolution, low power consumption, low price etc. The radar system proposed, offers a resolution in distance of about 15 cm for a pulse width of 1 ns, making this system very interesting in several short range applications. The originality of this radar is its capacity to detect easily, various obstacles. So, this paper describes the proposed radar and presents an interesting study of the adapted UWB waveforms that allow detection of different kind of obstacles in short ranges with a good resolution.
Energies, 2022
Vehicular ad hoc networks allow vehicles to share their information for the safety and efficiency... more Vehicular ad hoc networks allow vehicles to share their information for the safety and efficiency of traffic purposes. However, information sharing can threaten the driver’s privacy as it includes spatiotemporal information, and the messages are unencrypted and broadcasted periodically. Therefore, they cannot estimate their privacy level because it also depends on their surroundings. This article proposes a centralized adaptive pseudonym change scheme that permits the certificate’s authority to adjust the pseudonyms assignment for each requesting vehicle. This scheme adapts dynamically depending on the density of the traffic environment and the user’s privacy level, and it aims to solve the trade-off problem between wasting pseudonyms and Sybil attack. We employ a Knapsack problem-based algorithm for target tracking and an entropy-based method to measure each vehicle’s privacy. In order to demonstrate the applicability of our framework, we use real-life data captured during the inte...
Wireless communication between wagons at 2.4GHz
2016 International Conference on Electrical Sciences and Technologies in Maghreb (CISTEM), 2016
The work presented in this paper is part of general study concerning the connected wagon. The obj... more The work presented in this paper is part of general study concerning the connected wagon. The objective is to ensure communications of data associated to wagon (contents, location The aim of this study is to find the most appropriate technology to design a wireless communication between wagons or between wagon and infrastructure. This analysis takes into account railway and embedded systems constraints such as severe electromagnetic environment and low power consumption. The paper presents, at the first part, a state of the art of existing technologies. The second part describes the used technology (ZigBee) and their performances in propagation environment.
Indoor positioning system based on the UWB technique
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Enhancing user safety constitutes a major issue in railway transport. In this paper, a novel solu... more Enhancing user safety constitutes a major issue in railway transport. In this paper, a novel solution for detection and identification of objects falling on railway tracks is proposed. This solution is based on a system using a set of consecutive ultra wideband (UWB) monostatic radars fed by a common transmission line. The main objective of this work is to study the different radiofrequency and signal processing subsets in order to evaluate and validate the full system. A slotted waveguide operating in its fundamental mode is used as the common transmission line. Slots are periodically perforated in the waveguide to constitute the monostatic radars. The Singularity Expansion Method (SEM) is used to characterize the objects falling on railway tracks. Complex Natural Resonances are then computed or measured and stored in a library. They are used in a specific discrimination process. Using both numerical simulations and experimental results, the discrimination process shows that human bodies are well detected and distinguished as well as other objects typically found on platform (suitcases, bottles.. .
Guide d'onde à fentes pour la détection des chutes sur les voies ferroviaires
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Multi-users UWB inter vehicles communication system using MGF and DS-CDMA
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2008
Codage numérique appliqué au radar embarqué routier
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2009
Train localization based on UWB and time reversal
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 19, 2014
Positioning system using the SS-Ultra wide Band technique for transport application
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Several techniques have been developed for position location in a two dimension (2-D) system but ... more Several techniques have been developed for position location in a two dimension (2-D) system but few techniques have been done in a three dimension (3-D) context. Some of the techniques and algorithms proposed for 3-D are often subject to accuracy problems. We propose in this paper a novel technique of 3-D indoor position location. This method relies on techniques for ultra wide band (UWB) transmissions. The location algorithm is in terms of time difference of Arrival (TDOA). Numerical simulations show that the proposed approach improves precision of 3-D position location.
Performances study of micropower UWB radar using orthogonal waveforms
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security o... more Radars and their applications were, for a long time, reserved to national defense, air security or weather service domains. For a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, radar applica- tions have been developed and have become known in the civil domain. In particular, the arrival of UWB—Ultra-Wideband technology allows the design of compact and low-cost radars with multi- ple fields of application. In this paper, we focus on road applications, such as driving assistance with the objective of increasing safety and reducing accidents. In classical UWB radar systems, Gaussian and monocycle pulses are commonly used. In previous works, original waveforms based on orthogonal functions (Hermite and Gegenbauer) were proposed. These provide a good spatial resolution, suitable for radar detection. Another advantage of these waveforms is their multiple access capability, due to their orthogonality. The aim of the study presented in this article is to compare simulation and experimental results obtained, especially for short-range anticollision radar application, using these waveforms in one part and Gaussian and monocycle pulses in the other part. The originality of this paper relies on the new approach. Indeed, this comparison study using these waveforms has never been done before. Finally, some examples of real experiments in a real road environment with different waveforms are presented and analysed.
Computation of correlation and cumulant 4 under FPGA architecture
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 1, 2016
Simulation électromagnétique d'une structure rayonnante entre 2 et 6 GHz
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
InTech eBooks, Oct 10, 2012
Dr. Fouzia Elbahhar Boukour was born in 1975. She received the M.S and Ph.D degrees form the Univ... more Dr. Fouzia Elbahhar Boukour was born in 1975. She received the M.S and Ph.D degrees form the University of Valenciennes (France) in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is actually employed as researcher at IFSTTAR/ LEOST, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Fouzia Boukour is author or coauthor of more than 50 research papers, including journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. She participates at many national and European projects dedicated to transport applications. She serves also as a reviewer for several journals and international Conference. She is involved in signal processing especially Ultra wide band technology. Her major research interests are land transportation like Communication Vehicle to Vehicle and vehicle to XII Preface In this book, the chapters are organised in three main topic areas: Section 1: "Satellite Systems for Positioning" consists of chapters which cover whole satellite system (GPS, GNSS) and some applications using this system. It consists of three chapters. The first chapter is related to the satellite Localization system especially The GNSS system. In fact, the authors present some results in terms of precision related the application the GNSS receivers in agricultural applications. The second chapter presents new concepts to calculate the coordinates of GNSS stations, existing in some countries, in the international reference systems using information and applying a methodology of rigorous processing and adjusting. This technique has proved to be advantageous when the objective is to introduce the Reference System simultaneously with the precision and parameters estimation. The last chapter of this section deals with the use of GPS technology in the determination of the one-way speed of light. Section 2: "Wireless Sensor Network Localization Techniques", is dedicated to the Localization applications using the wireless sensor networks. The section consists of five chapters. The first chapters are related the applications of UWB Localization system especially applied to building construction environments and the transport applications. The third chapter is related to the capacitive transmit-mode measurement methods that can be used to passively track an individual indoors in three dimensions and nonintrusive. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the concepts for an indoor Localization system suitable for a Wireless Sensor Network in a GPS-denied scenario way. The last chapter is dedicated to the off-the-shelf positioning system using IEEE802.11 wireless local area network technology without any additional devices. Section 3: "Coupled GPS and other sensors", consists of three chapters. The first two chapters present some results for Inertial Navigation System/GPS association and some applications of this coupling. The last chapter discusses some interesting results concerning the development and implementation of a "System On Programmable Chip" SOPC based on portable positioning systems PPS, which is capable of handling the datafused positioning and can provide user a feasible way to obtain their position anywhere. The editor would like to thank all authors for their contribution, and all those people who directly or indirectly helped make this work. We hope the information included will be useful for Communication & Localization Engineers, Signal Processing Engineers and the academic researchers occupied in the field of indoor and outdoor Localization systems.
New adaptive architectures of coding and modulation UWB for infrastructure vehicle communication
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
Photovoltaic-thermoelectric (PV-TE) hybrid system for thermal energy harvesting in low-power sensors
Materials Today: Proceedings
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
This paper presents a novel vehicular environment identification approach based on deep learning.... more This paper presents a novel vehicular environment identification approach based on deep learning. It consists of exploiting the vehicular wireless channel characteristics in the form of Channel State Information (CSI) in the receiver side of a connected vehicle in order to identify the environment type in which the vehicle is driving, without any need to implement specific sensors such as cameras or radars. We consider environment identification as a classification problem, and propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to deal with it. The estimated CSI is used as the input feature to train the model. To perform the identification process, the model is targeted for implementation in an autonomous vehicle connected to a vehicular network (VN). The proposed model is extensively evaluated, showing that it can reliably recognize the surrounding environment with high accuracy (96.48%). Our model is compared to related approaches and state-ofthe-art classification architectures. The experiments show that our proposed model yields favorable performance compared to all other considered methods.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
In this paper, a short range radar system based on UWB -Ultra-Wide-Band-technology for road safet... more In this paper, a short range radar system based on UWB -Ultra-Wide-Band-technology for road safety application is presented. During a long time, the radar and its applications were reserved to national defence, air security domains or weather services. Since a few years, with the emergence of new technologies, the radar applications are being extended to many sectors of daily life. UWB -Ultra Wide Band-is a new radio technique based on the emission of very short non-sinusoidal pulses duration, that have, typically, widths less than 1.5 ns, so that the spectrum of the emitted signals may spread over several Gigahertz . All exiting studies on UWB radar concerns essentially medical and military applications and only some studies were interested in UWB radar, for the obstacles detection, such as mines detection, detection of the heart wall movements by medical imagery or the monitoring through the walls for military operations . In this paper, we propose to exploit the UWB technology for road radar application, in order to profit from its inherent advantages such as good range resolution, low power consumption, low price etc. The radar system proposed, offers a resolution in distance of about 15 cm for a pulse width of 1 ns, making this system very interesting in several short range applications. The originality of this radar is its capacity to detect easily, various obstacles. So, this paper describes the proposed radar and presents an interesting study of the adapted UWB waveforms that allow detection of different kind of obstacles in short ranges with a good resolution.
Energies, 2022
Vehicular ad hoc networks allow vehicles to share their information for the safety and efficiency... more Vehicular ad hoc networks allow vehicles to share their information for the safety and efficiency of traffic purposes. However, information sharing can threaten the driver’s privacy as it includes spatiotemporal information, and the messages are unencrypted and broadcasted periodically. Therefore, they cannot estimate their privacy level because it also depends on their surroundings. This article proposes a centralized adaptive pseudonym change scheme that permits the certificate’s authority to adjust the pseudonyms assignment for each requesting vehicle. This scheme adapts dynamically depending on the density of the traffic environment and the user’s privacy level, and it aims to solve the trade-off problem between wasting pseudonyms and Sybil attack. We employ a Knapsack problem-based algorithm for target tracking and an entropy-based method to measure each vehicle’s privacy. In order to demonstrate the applicability of our framework, we use real-life data captured during the inte...
Wireless communication between wagons at 2.4GHz
2016 International Conference on Electrical Sciences and Technologies in Maghreb (CISTEM), 2016
The work presented in this paper is part of general study concerning the connected wagon. The obj... more The work presented in this paper is part of general study concerning the connected wagon. The objective is to ensure communications of data associated to wagon (contents, location The aim of this study is to find the most appropriate technology to design a wireless communication between wagons or between wagon and infrastructure. This analysis takes into account railway and embedded systems constraints such as severe electromagnetic environment and low power consumption. The paper presents, at the first part, a state of the art of existing technologies. The second part describes the used technology (ZigBee) and their performances in propagation environment.