Radiopositioning Laboratory

Research Activity

• Theoretical and/or experimental research on signal processing systems and techniques for radar and radiolocation systems.

• Study, design and development of processing techniques for SAR system definition, SAR & ISAR high resolution focusing, SAR image information extraction, GMTI and multi-channel SAR, adaptive array radar, adaptive detectors for high resolution clutter echoes, advanced radar tracking. 

• Study, design and development of experimental passive radar demonstrators, based on different waveforms of opportunity (e.g. FM radio, DVB, WiFi, GPS, Galileo), cooperative radar and communications systems, and Forward Scatter Radar. The experimental passive radar receivers are realized with COTS components and are used to detect different kinds of moving targets: airplanes, ships, cars, people moving both in outdoor and indoor environment. Proper processing techniques are developed and tested to control the passive radar receivers and to analyze collected data. Most of the research activities listed are carried out in collaboration with companies in the sector and/or other research bodies (European, national, regional research projects).

Instrumentation

• 4 channels Oscilloscope LeCroy wavePro 725Zi (2.5GHz, 40Gs/s) 

• 2 NI (National Instruments) USRP-2955 devices (4 channels receiver, 10MHz – 6GHz) 

• 1 NI USRP-B210 device (MIMO, 2 Tx & 2 Rx channels, 70MHz – 6GHz) 

• 1 GPU NVIDIA Quadro M5000 

• 1 commercial drone: DJI Mavic Pro

•  Receiving antennas operating in different frequency bands:

  • FM

  • DVB-T

  • WiFi (single and dual-pol)

  • DVB-S

• 1 NI chassis equipped with:

  • 1 controller (NI PXI-8186)

  • 2 down-converters (NI PXI-5600) 

  • 1 A/D converter, (NI PXI-5122, 2 channels) 

  • 1 clock signal generator (NI PXI-5404) 

  • 1 arbitrary waveform generator (NI PXI-5421) 

  • 1 up-converter (NI PXI-5610) 

Software

• Matlab® 

• LabVIEW®

Scientific Responsible

Prof. Pierfrancesco Lombardo, pierfrancesco.lombardo@uniroma1.it

Teaching and Research staff

• Prof. Fabiola Colone, fabiola.colone@uniroma1.it 

• Prof. Debora Pastina, debora.pastina@uniroma1.it

Technical staff

• Luca Balestreri, luca.balestreri@uniroma1.it 

• Mario Mannarino, mario.mannarino@uniroma1.it 

Technical manager

• Rocco Crescenzi, rocco.crescenzi@uniroma1.it

Location

Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (DIET), via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome - Building RM031 - third floor, room DIET11