Selected algorithms for measurement data processing in impulse-radar-based system for monitoring of human movements

The importance of research on new technologies that could be employed in care services for elderly and disabled persons is highlighted. Advantages of impulse-radar sensors, when applied for non-intrusive monitoring of such persons in their home environment, are indicated. Selected algorithms for the measurement data preprocessing – viz. the algorithms for clutter suppression and echo parameter estimation, as well as for estimation of the twodimensional position of a monitored person – are proposed. The capability of an impulse-radarbased system to provide some application-specific parameters, viz. the parameters characterising the patient’s health condition, is also demonstrated.