US 12,332,343 B2
Electromagnetic non-line-of-sight imaging method based on time reversal and compressed sensing
Jiangtao Huangfu, Zhejiang (CN); Lusong Wei, Zhejiang (CN); and Zhiyi Tang, Zhejiang (CN)
Assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, Zhejiang (CN)
Appl. No. 17/419,714
Filed by ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, Zhejiang (CN)
PCT Filed Nov. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/126926
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/143306, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010063070.7 (CN), filed on Jan. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0065110 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G01S 13/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/03 (2006.01); G01S 13/93 (2020.01); H01Q 1/40 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 13/89 (2013.01) [G01S 7/03 (2013.01); G01S 13/93 (2013.01); H01Q 1/40 (2013.01); H01Q 21/00 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electromagnetic non-line-of-sight imaging method based on time reversal and compressed sensing, comprising:
step 1) evenly dividing a target area V into m grids, placing a metal object with a known size and shape in each grid in sequence when there is no target in the target area, and setting m groups of control voltages to be applied to an antenna to establish m groups of detection electromagnetic waves with time reversal characteristics;
step 2) when there is a target in the target area V, using i groups of control voltages in the target area V to obtain i groups of detection electromagnetic waves with compressed sensing characteristics for multiple measurements, and obtaining a contour area V′ by matrix inversion, wherein the target is located within the contour area V′;
wherein the step 2) specifically comprises:
step 2.1) switching a transmitting mode of an antenna array to a receiving mode, switching the receiving mode of the antenna array to the transmitting mode, and providing active metasurface radomes at a transmitting antenna array and a receiving antenna array;
step 2.2) performing measurement when the target area is an empty field without any object, transmitting electromagnetic waves to the surface of the active metasurface radome by the transmitting antenna array, receiving the scattered electromagnetic waves from the target by the receiving antenna array, applying i groups of random control voltages to a basic unit of the active metasurface radome at the transmitting antenna array, applying no control voltages to the basic unit of the active metasurface radome at the receiving antenna array, so that after the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the transmitting antenna array is scattered around the edge of the wall/metal structure, reaches the target, get reflected by the target, scattered by the edge of the wall/metal structure and then is received by the receiving antenna array, the electromagnetic wave at the receiving antenna array will have random amplitude and phase which is denoted as Eics, and the corner mark cs represents the measured electromagnetic field in compressed sensing;
step 2.3) when the target area is an empty field without any object, applying no control voltage to each unit of the active metasurface radome at the transmitting antenna array and the receiving antenna array, using a near-field measurement method to obtain the amplitude and phase Etcs of the transmitting antenna array in the target area V and the amplitude and phase Ercs of the receiving antenna array in the target area V;
step 2.4) placing a detection target in a target area V for measurement, applying i groups of control voltages which are the same as those in empty field measurement to the active metasurface radome at the transmitting antenna array, and applying no control voltage to the basic unit of the active metasurface radome at the receiving antenna array, so as to obtain the amplitude and phase Etotics of electromagnetic waves received by the receiving antenna array;
step 2.5) establishing an imaging system model as follows:
g=Hf
g=(Etotics−Eics)
H=EtcsErcs
where g denotes scattered echo signal matrix of all grids, H denotes measurement matrix of an imaging system, which is the product EtesEres of radiation fields of the transmitting antenna array and the receiving antenna array at the target area V, and f denotes target backscattering matrix of all grids;
step 2.6) performing matrix inversion on the backscattering matrix fin step 2.5) to obtain a target contour area V′ which is smaller and finer than the initial target area V; and
step 3) selecting p grids from the m grids so that the p grids cover the contour area V′, transmitting p groups of detection electromagnetic waves with time reversal characteristics corresponding to the p grids to the target for multiple measurements, normalizing the electromagnetic wave amplitude values in the p grids by using electromagnetic wave amplitude values larger than a preset threshold after each measurement, and synthesizing multiple measurement results to obtain a refined imaging of the target.