Patrick Bell, Ken Kolodziej
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description
Are you interested in building and testing your own radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course focusing on the design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based radar capable of forming Doppler, range and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. This course will appeal to anyone interested in the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics or electromagnetics. Teams of three will receive materials to build a radar and will be given instructions to watch pre-recorded lectures spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging. Instructors will be on-hand to answer questions and debug any assembly issues. You will bring your radar into the field and perform experiments such as measuring the speed of passing cars or plotting the range of moving targets. A final SAR imaging contest will test your ability to form a detailed and creative SAR image of a target scene of your choice. The best image wins!
Laptop running Windows, Mac OS or Linux. Other versions of Unix have not been tested. At least one available USB port. Installation permissions may be necessary for Arduino microcontroller. Matlab 2009b or later, Instrumentation Control Toolbox for Matlab is required.
*This work is supported by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0001. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Air Force.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Ken Kolodziej, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
| Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:30PM | NE-45 2nd Floor, MIT Beaver Works |
| Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:30PM | NE-45 2nd Floor, MIT Beaver Works |
| Feb/03 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:30PM | NE-45 2nd Floor, MIT Beaver Works |
In person meetings focus on distribution, fabrication, and debug of radars. These will additionally be used for discussions surrounding data collections and student results. See course description for computer requirements.
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Sessions will be held at Beaver Works @ 300 Technology Square, 2nd Floor