A low-cost ultra-wideband test-bed for dielectric target detection

PABLO GÁMEZ; EDGARDO MARCHI; CAROLINA GIUFFRIDA; GASTÓN PEREZ; CECILIA G. GALARZA; MARCOS CERVETTO; ANDRÉS ALTIERI

Mar del Plata

Workshop; Reunión de Procesamiento de la Información y Control 2017; 2017

Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

This work presents a low-cost Ultra-Wideband (UWB) test-bed for impulse radio communications and sensing. The design was conceived for generic algorithm implementation and testing over a modular and simple architecture. The hardware design is based on commercially available components and is capable of achieving a 1 GHz bandwidth with a central frequency of 4.2525 GHz. The test-bed architecture is presented and discussed then, some measurements over the prototypes are shown.