Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifier

163

Date

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Electrical and Computer Engr

Concentration

Computer Engineering

Committee Chair

Khan M. Iftekharuddin

Committee Member

Robert Kozma

Committee Member

Aaron L. Robinson

Abstract

An autonomous wireless sensor network consisting of different types of sensor modalities is a topic of intense research due to its versatility and portability.These types of autonomous sensor networks commonly include passive sensor nodes such as infrared,acoustic,seismic and magnetic.However,fusion of another active sensor such as Doppler radar in the integrated sensor network may offer powerful capabilities for many different sensing and classification tasks.In this work,we demonstrate the design and implementation of an autonomous wireless sensor network integrating a Doppler sensor into wireless sensor node with commercial off the shelf components.We also investigate the effect of different types of target materials on return radar signal as one of the applications of the newly designed radar-mote network.Usually type of materials can affect the amount of energy reflected back to the source of an electromagnetic wave.We obtain mathematical and simulation models for the reflectivity of different homogeneous non-conducting materials and study the effect of such reflectivity on different types of targets.We validate our simulation results on effect of reflectivity on different types of targets using real toy experiment data collected through our autonomous radar-mote sensor network.

Comments

Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to the local University of Memphis Electronic Theses & dissertation (ETD) Repository.

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