Electronic engineering, explained
Notes, exercises and theses for every year of electronic engineering
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Electrical Communications
Radar tracking: measurement accuracy and the Cramér-Rao bound, α-β and Kalman filters, IMM and association
Resolution and accuracy, the Cramér-Rao bound checked with a simulation, the classic tracking radar and monopulse, α-β and Kalman filters with the…
Antennas
Phased arrays: array factor, grating lobes, PIN-diode phase shifters, monopulse and active arrays
Electronic steering explained simply, the array factor proved, beamwidth and its broadening with steering, the condition against grating lobes proved, PIN-diode digital…
Radar Systems
Solved exercises on radar systems: radar equation in dB, Doppler, compression, blind speeds, arrays, clutter, FMCW and SAR
Ten exercises at three levels with step-by-step solutions and graphs: range and second trace, budget in decibels, Doppler, pulse compression, staggered PRFs,…
Radar Systems
Deep dive: designing an airport surveillance radar step by step, from requirements to power
The whole course in one design: frequency, PRF, antenna, pulses on target, exact SNR for a Swerling 1 target, loss budget, energy…
Radar Systems
The digital radar: direct RF sampling, down-conversion, digital beamforming, Capon, cognitive radar
Undersampling in the Nyquist zones, quantisation and jitter, digital down-conversion, digital beamforming and Capon's method proved separating two sources closer than the…
Radar Systems
SAR, weather radars and military radars: synthetic aperture, reflectivity, jamming and burn-through
The D/2 resolution of synthetic aperture radar proved and simulated, the PRF condition and azimuth aliasing, InSAR, weather radar reflectivity and dual…
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Technical Physics
High Temperature Phase Stability in Doped Thermal Barrier Coating Systems
One of the most used materials for Thermal Barrier Coatings manufacturing is Zirconia stabilized by addition of Yttrium oxides as dopant. It…
Theses in English
Controller Design for the Acquisition Phase of the LISA Mission Using a Kalman Filter
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, and its technology-demonstrating precursor LISA Pathfinder, form an ESA/NASA collaborative project, selected as an ESA Cornerstone…
Theses in English
Mobile Robot Control in Unknown Indoor Environments – the Visual SLAM for Servoing
One of the main obstacles that still hinder penetration of mobile robots into wide consumer markets is the unavailability of powerful, versatile…