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Jewel Benny awarded Chanakya UG Fellowship

Jewel Benny supervised by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava was awarded the Chanakya UG Fellowship by iHub IIIT Delhi for his research work on Design and Measurements of mmWave FMCW Radar Based Non-Contact Multi-Patient Heart Rate and Breath Rate Monitoring System. 

The research work as explained by the authors Abhishek Srivastava, Jewel Benny,  Pranjal Mahajan, Srayan Sankar Chatterjee and Mohd Wajid, Department of Electronics Engineering, Z.H.C.E.T, Aligarh Muslim University:

Recent developments in mmWave radar technologies have enabled the truly non-contact heart-rate (HR) and breath-rate (BR) measurement approaches, which provides a great ease in patient monitoring. Additionally, these technologies also provide opportunities to simultaneously detect HR and BR of multiple patients, which has become increasingly important for efficient mass monitoring scenarios. In this work, a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) mmWave radar based truly non-contact multiple patient HR and BR monitoring system has been presented. Furthermore, a novel approach is also proposed, which combines multiple processing methods using a least squares solution to improve measurement accuracy, generalization, and handle measurement error. The proposed system has been developed using Texas Instruments’ FMCW radar and experimental results with multiple subjects are also presented, which show >97% and >93% accuracy in the measured BR and HR values, respectively.

March 2024