Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC2018] Adding Passive radar and multiple device support to gr-radar toolbox

[suraj hanchinal]

Hi Martin

Thank you Martin for the suggestions. You are right about the vagueness. I was not able to properly communicate all the ideas in my head. I have actually thought about the clutter removal algorithms and have updated the proposal with the same. As you and Marcus said, the schedule was way too tight and I had not given time for code reviewing and pull requests. I have updated that as well. I have included a basic GUI which should be enough to demonstrate the capabilities of the toolbox. Also I have written about signal recovery as well as signal synchronization. I have added which devices will be supported and have used a simple WiFi based algorithm instead of the very complicated one. I will link the proposal below.

Thank you,

Regards,

Suraj Hanchinal

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 2:49 AM, Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote:

On 03/23/2018 11:26 AM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote:
> Hi Suraj,
>
> thank you very much for sending us your proposal! This already looks
> very nice. Can I wish for you to add something like a rough block
> diagram that describes how your simulated illuminator, your signal
> recoverer, your radar estimator and your clutter reducer work
> together, and which information you plan on letting these exchange?
> That would allow us to "mentally" map what you're doing each week in
> your proposed timeline to components of the system.
>
> All in all, this is pretty ambitious, but exciting!


Sure is!

There's a couple of typos in the proposal, and I always think that
distracts from the quality of content and the content itself.

My main issue with this proposal is its vagueness. I would recommend you
expand the sections that explain the algorithms you want to implement *a
lot*. In particular, we need to know if you've understood the underlying
math, DSP, and implementation requirements.
Do you have thoughts on a clutter removal algorithm? Like Marcus says,
it will better to do a simple approach first. You could, e.g. remove all
zero-Doppler targets.
As a result of this vagueness, I believe the timeline is probably
inaccurate.

GUIs are nice, but you should either make them stretch goals, or actual
first-class citizens.
It's always better to limit your main deliverables to make sure there's
time for cleanup and merging. What if the gr-radar maintainer has issues
with your pull requests? You're planning to add a of stuff. Were you
planning on submitting PRs continuously? If so, I recommend writing that.

I'm also curious how you do your signal recovery.

The overall proposal is interesting, though, no doubt about that!

-- M

> How will you tackle the OFDM signal recovery? I think your reference
> [2] is really much to be completely done in one GSoC, so it would be
> totally OK to say you just picked a reduced approach. Still, if you
> want to do that in all its glory, that would be cool, too, but I'd
> ask Martin how much work he'd expect that to be, and if necessary,
> reserve more time for the algorithmic part alone. I'm also including
> Jean- Michel Friedt of low-cost passive radar fame[A], as I hope he
> might have a moment to read and comment on your proposal.
>
> Best regards, Marcus
>
> [A] http://jmfriedt.free.fr/URSI.pdf On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 12:54
> +0530, suraj hanchinal wrote:
>> Hello Everyone, I am Suraj Hanchinal, a second year undergraduate
>> in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology,
>> Kanpur. I had approached the mailing list and communicated with
>> Martin Braun, the mentor and others regarding the gr-radar toolbox
>> extension idea. I decided to work on adding passive radar support
>> to the toolbox after these discussions. I have finally completed
>> the proposal [1] and I would like feedback as well as suggestions
>> for improvement on the proposal.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Regards, Suraj Hanchinal
>>
>> Proposal [1]
>> https://github.com/surajhanchinal/GSoC_proposal/blob/master/My%20GSoc%20Proposal.pdf
>>
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