Electrical Engineering
Tagline
Intelligence hiding in plain sight
Year
2025
Sponsor
HRL

With today's modern communication technology, the environment is saturated with an ocean of radio frequency signals. Our project aims to take advantage of those signals and their reflections to detect moving object. Most current radar technology requires transmitting a radio signals and waiting for an reflection, much like how bats use echolocation. However, by sending a signal into the environment, there is a high risk of broadcasting one's own location. In contrast, radIoQ utilizes passive radar which offers great advantages in stealth, making it highly beneficial in crucial military applications. In addition, being a low power system and compact system, passive radar finds applications in object detection for technologies such as self driving cars. With the help of complex signal processing algorithms and fundamental phenomena such as the Doppler Effect, we demonstrate a passive radar detecting aircraft through the use of several antennas, a software defined radio, and a laptop as our signal processor and real time display.

Students

Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering