La « vision » à travers les milieux opaques (murs, cloisons, décombres, ou plus généralement tout milieu qui occulte la vision humaine) est l’un des problèmes clefs du contrôle et de la sécurité. Il apparaît à l’heure actuelle un réel besoin de disposer de dispositifs d’observation à travers ces milieux pour des applications tant militaires (lors des assauts, des prises d’otages, etc.) que civiles (recherche de personnes enfouies dans des décombres, dans un incendie, etc). Les avancées sur cette problématique ont conduit à mettre en place des systèmes radars à très courte portée, opérationnels pour la détection et le tracking de personnes dans des environnements simples. Cependant ils nécessitent que les cibles soient en déplacement afin de les différencier des objets statiques. Cette limitation constitue un défaut majeur pour un certain nombre de scénarii réels où des personnes, par stratégie ou par contrainte, restent immobiles. Ces travaux de thèse visent à explorer les mécanismes de détection de personnes statiques par le biais de leurs micro-mouvements, e.g. des mouvements induits par le thorax lors de la respiration. Nous avons étudié - d’un point de vue théorique - les principes physiques sous-jacents à la détection de ces micro-mouvements par radar UWB impulsionnel à partir du mécanisme Doppler impulsionnel. Ce dernier s’appuie sur des mesures consécutives des phases des impulsions réfléchies. La compréhension de ce phénomène a permis de définir une architecture radar impulsionnelle et de la positionner, en termes de contributions, au regard des différents radars UWB proposés dans la littérature : le FMCW et le radar de bruit. Deux dispositifs radars ont servi de support à ce travail. Le premier, de type démonstrateur académique, repose sur l’utilisation d’un oscilloscope rapide pour numériser les impulsions UWB de 3 à 6 GHz de bande. Il a permis de mettre en place une chaîne de traitement complète de vision à travers les murs. Le second dispositif est un prototype radar développé autour d’une plateforme de numérisation ultra-rapide (100 Gsps par échantillonnage équivalent) de fréquence de rafraîchissement très élevée (100 Hz). Il est construit autour d’un FPGA, d’un ADC rapide (1,25 GHz) et d’un T&H très large bande (18 GHz). Il permet ainsi la détection des micro-mouvements par traitement Doppler impulsionnel. / "Vision" through opaque environments (walls, partitions, rubble, or any environment that obscures human vision) is one of the key issues of control and security. Advances on this issue have led to operational shortrange radar systems for people detection and tracking in simple environments. However, most of them require the targets to move in order to differentiate them from static objects. This requirement constitues a major shortcoming for a certain number of real scenarios where people, by strategies or by constraints, remain motionless. Hence, this thesis aims to explore the mechanisms of detection of static people through their micro-movements, e.g. movements induced by the thorax during breathing. We have studied - from a theoretical point of view - the physical principles underlying the detection of these micro-movements by pulsed UWB radar with the pulsed Doppler phenomenon, which relies on consecutive measurements of the reflected pulses phases. The understanding of this phenomenon made it possible to define a radar architecture and to position it, in terms of contributions, with regard to the different UWB radars proposed in the literature : the FMCW and the noise radar. Two radar devices served as support for this work. An academic demonstrator based on the use of a fast oscilloscope to digitize the pulses. It allowed to set up a complete processing chain for the application of vision through the walls. The second device is a radar prototype developed around a high-speed scanning platform (100 Gsps perequivalent sampling) with a very high refresh rate (100 Hz). This prototype is built around an FPGA, a fast ADC (1.25 GHz) and a very wide band T&H (18 GHz). This thereby enables to detect micro-movements by pulsed Doppler processing.

The studies in this dissertation mainly utilize planar antennas for ultra-wideband antenna designs not only on the investigation of antenna performance but also towards exploiting attractive features of ultra-wideband antennas for practical applications, such as WMAN access-point antennas, omnidirectional WiMAX access-point antennas, band-notched UWB (Ultra-wideband, 3.1 ~ 10.6 GHz) antennas, and so on. To begin with, the effects of the ground-plane size and the asymmetrical ground plane on ultra-wideband antennas are studied in Chapter 2. Following up, from the conclusive results, an antenna for WMAN operation in access-point applications and an omnidirectional monopole for USB wireless network card device are proposed and analyzed. Characteristics of ultra-wideband antenna radiation in relation to the antenna's width for obtaining omnidirectional radiation are addressed. In Chapter 3, several ultra-wideband access-point antennas are presented for achieving good omnidirectional radiation in the azimuthal plane across the bandwidth. Furthermore, in Chapter 4, band-notching techniques are applied to ultra-wideband antennas for avoiding the interference between the UWB and the WLAN systems.

Du fait de la nature ouverte et partagée du canal radio, les communications sans fil souffrent de vulnérabilités sérieuses en terme de sécurité. Dans ces travaux de thèse, je me suis intéressé particulièrement à deux classes d'attaques à savoir l'attaque par relais et l'attaque par déni de service (brouillage). La technologie de couche physique UWB-IR a connu un grand essor au cours de cette dernière décennie et elle est une candidate intéressante pour les réseaux sans fil à courte portée. Mon objectif principal était d'exploiter les caractéristiques de la couche physique UWB-IR afin de renforcer la sécurité des communications sans fil. L'attaque par relais peut mettre à défaut les protocoles cryptographiques d'authentification. Pour remédier à cette menace, les protocoles de distance bounding ont été proposés. Dans ce cadre, je propose deux nouveaux protocoles (STHCP : Secret Time-Hopping Code Protocol et SMCP : Secret Mapping Code Protocol) qui améliorent considérablement la sécurité des protocoles de distance bounding au moyen des paramètres de la radio UWB-IR. Le brouillage consiste en l'émission intentionnelle d'un signal sur le canal lors du déroulement d'une communication. Mes contributions concernant le problème de brouillage sont triples. D'abord, j'ai déterminé les paramètres d'un brouilleur gaussien pire cas contre un récepteur UWB-IR non-cohérent. En second lieu, je propose un nouveau modèle de brouillage par analogie avec les attaques contre le système de chiffrement. Troisièmement, je propose une modification rendant la radio UWB-IR plus robuste au brouillage. Enfin, dans une dernière partie de mes travaux, je me suis intéressé au problème d'intégrer la sécurité à un réseau UWB-IR en suivant l'approche d'embedding. Le principe de cette approche consiste à superposer et à transmettre les informations de sécurité simultanément avec les données et avec une contrainte de compatibilité. Ainsi, je propose deux nouvelles techniques d'embedding pour la couche physique UWB-IR afin d'intégrer un service d'authentification.

The electronic control, instrumentation and communication hardware is becoming more and more compact and faster in operation due to the increased use of large scale integration of semiconductor devices operating at higher speeds. The use of VLSI circuit based systems in various industrial and defence sectors is also increasing continuously. Since the operating threshold voltages and currents of these devices are very small they are very prone to electrical disturbance in their operation by the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) signals. Their proper functioning is very important particularly in the case of systems used in mission mode, critical defence/industrial platforms. EMI can be generated within the electronic system/equipment itself or may result due to some external electromagnetic source. The high power Ultra Wide Band system is one such kind of external High Power Electromagnetic (HPEM) interference source which may cause malfunctioning/physical damage to the sensitive electronic systems. Hence it is necessary to test the susceptibility of electronics to such high power UWB based intentional EMI or IEMI sources. The sources for generating these transient EM fields may also be used in impulse radars and offensive applications to mal-operate/damage non-friendly electronics. The UWB system consists of a high voltage pulsed power source called pulser along with a high bandwidth (Ultra Wide Band) antenna to radiate the UWB signal. The pulse fed by the pulser to the antenna through a switch is of high voltage type (amplitude of few 10s of kV to about a MV) and has a sub-nanosecond rise time. Most of the UWB systems developed over the world have the switch employing gaseous dielectric switching media used at pressures above the atmospheric level to generate such a fast rise time voltage pulse. Use of gaseous switching media at sub-atmospheric pressures to achieve sub-ns rise time, short duration high voltage pulses required for the high power UWB applications is another possibility. This possibility has not been exploited till date. Hence it was decided to develop a pulser switch with gaseous switching media at sub-atmospheric pressures (up to 50 mbar) and achieve sub-ns rise time voltage pulses of up to 50 kV. The energy delivered out by the UWB system depends upon the pulser output energy per switching shot and the repetitive switching rate of the pulser. To achieve maximum energy output it is required to maximize either the energy per switching shot or the pulse repetition rate (PRR) of the pulser switch. The optimization of the pulser operation to achieve maximum pulser energy output in every switching shot has not been tried so far. In this work it was decided to analyze the circuit so as to achieve maximum pulser output energy per switching shot. Another objective of the study was to systematically characterize the pulser switch using various gases and gas mixtures as the switching media to evaluate the switch performance as a function of gas pressure and switch breakdown voltage. The effect of pulser and antenna performance parameters on the UWB system performance was also decided to be evaluated. Hence the present thesis work deals with the design, development, evaluation and performance optimization of a 50 kV, 25 MW UWB system based on Half Impulse Radiating Antenna (HIRA) fed by a coaxial capacitive pulser. The spark gap type self triggered pulser switch is designed to have a fixed gap spacing and variable gas pressure in order to vary the switch breakdown voltage. The switch is designed for operation with dry air, nitrogen, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and a mixture of different gases as the dielectric switching media with pressures of up to 5 bar above the atmospheric level and up to 50 mbar below the atmospheric level. Physical placement of the switch just above the coaxial pulser capacitor terminal offered a low inductance geometry. The rise time estimation of the switch has been carried out as a function of gas pressure and the switch arc inductance. These rise time values have been compared with the measured ones and a good agreement was found between the two. The rise time values indicate that an inverse relationship exists between the gas pressure and the rise time. The rise time was found to decrease at increased pressures. SF6 gas offered the minimum rise time out of all the gases/mixtures studied. The pulse repetition rate (PRR) of the UWB system depends upon the dielectric recovery of the gaseous switch and the charging time of the pulser capacitor. To estimate the PRR a circuit model has been proposed based on these parameters. The model shows an inverse relationship between the switch breakdown voltage (BDV) and the gas pressure with the PRR. The estimated PRR values were found to vary between 800 Hz and 5 kHz in the experimented range of the switch breakdown voltage. The PRR values have also been experimentally measured. There is a good match between the measured and the estimated values up to the switch BDV of 12.5 kV after which the difference is increased to about 20 %. The feed for the reflector of the HIRA antenna consists of a pair of coplanar conical transverse electromagnetic (TEM) feed plates as they have a better antenna aperture blockage performance. The angles of the TEM feed plates have been chosen using stereographic projections of the feed plates into the HIRA reflector. Each TEM feed plate of 200  characteristic impedance has been terminated by matched resistor. An analytical expression has been derived to optimize the pulser output voltage at which the energy output per switching shot of the UWB system is maximum. It was found that when the pulser output voltage i.e. the switch breakdown voltage is 75 % of the dc source voltage the output energy delivered is maximum. It was possible to achieve a maximum output energy of 10 J per switching shot for the designed 25 MW high power UWB system. The HIRA antenna has been analysed for the impedance profile for frequencies up to 3.5 GHz and was found to maintain a reflection performance better than -10 dB over the frequency range. The radiated field analysis of the antenna was carried out using an analytical model and numerically by using a commercially available software. It was found that as per the analytical model, the Figure of Merit (FoM) of the designed UWB system is 1.41 V for a normalized excitation feed pulse of 1 V and the 3 dB spectral content of the radiated field is between 180 MHz-1.8 GHz. The corresponding results using computer simulations of the UWB system indicate a slightly lesser FoM of 1.1. Higher FoM obtained using the analytical model is due to ignoring the antenna aperture blockage and the field diffraction effects over the TEM feed arms as well as from the rim of the reflector of the antenna. The radiated field amplitude and gain of the HIRA antenna were found to be a direct function of the frequency of the radiated signal. Higher gains and narrower beam width for the radiated field were observed with an increase in the frequency. The radiated field spectral waveform in the near field region was observed to have a notch at a particular frequency and its harmonics. The notch frequency was found to be a function of the propagation time difference called clear time. The effect of pulser rise time, antenna feed arm impedance and position on the radiated far field amplitude and wave shape was analysed. It was observed that with decrease in the pulser rise time from 700 ps to 100 ps, the radiated field amplitude increases by about 600 %. A matched termination impedance with position of 30of the TEM feed arms with respect to the vertical symmetry axis of the antenna provides a higher radiated field amplitude and lower post pulse oscillations in the radiated field waveform. The pulser switch was evaluated systematically for various performance parameters such as BDV, rise time, PRR, voltage recovery and jitter characteristics as a function of switch gas pressure, type of gaseous switching media and breakdown voltage at pressures above and below the atmospheric level. The switch BDV was found to be a linear function of pressure of the gas used i.e. dry air, nitrogen, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and a mixture of air and SF6. The measured rise times of all the gases were found to be in inverse proportion to the switch gas pressure. SF6 gas offered the best rise time and hence was found to be a good contender for achieving higher radiated field amplitudes and bandwidth. The voltage recovery characteristics of SF6 gas and air were experimentally studied as a function of the recovery time. It is found that both the gases have similar recovery characteristics having a distinct saturation plateau region. It was found that for a given recovery time SF6 recovers to a higher voltage than air and the recovery further improves for SF6 at increased pressures (between 0.5-2 bar). The effect of the number of switching shots on the jitter in the switch rise time was measured by operating the switch continuously at a PRR of 1 kHz and for total number shots up to 10.8 M. It was observed that the jitter increases by an order of magnitude after 10.8 M shots. This indicates that for the present switch design, the switch electrodes require maintenance (buffing, polishing, etc.) after every 3.5 M shots to maintain a reasonably low jitter. SF6 gas was characterized for a fixed source voltage to determine the effect of pressure on rise time in the sub atmospheric regime (up to 50 mbar). It was found that the rise time vs. pressure characteristics follows the Paschen’s curve with a value of pressure at which rise time is the lowest for a given source voltage. With increase in the source voltage the rise time was found to decrease. The HIRA based UWB radiating system was evaluated for radiated fields in the near and far field region for the temporal and spectral characteristics. It was found that for the source voltage of 25 kV, the FoM in the near and far field region are 29.4 kV and 28.9 kV respectively. The fields in the distant far field region have more oscillatory post pulses due to the effect of ground reflections and the low frequency dipole moment mismatch of the antenna. Since SF6 gas offered the best rise time of 193 ps at a voltage of 46 kV than the other gases tried, the radiated field is the highest (5.3 kV/m) with SF6 at a distance of 10 m offering a gain factor of 1.15. Dry air offered a radiated field gain factor of 0.83 which got improved by 33 % by just 30 % addition of SF6 gas into the air. The field amplitudes measured were in good agreement with those computed using the analytical model and the computer simulations and they follow the 1/R rule as a function of the far field distance, R in the bore sight direction. The measured radiation pattern of the UWB system showed a focussed and narrow radiated field beam at higher frequencies with a half field beam width (HFBW) of 8 at 2 GHz. The UWB system was measured to have dominant highest cut off frequency of 1.79 GHz with a band ratio and percentage band width of 9.56 and 162.11 % respectively. This confirmed that the developed system is of sub-hyper band radiator type. The UWB system developed through this work is having a better performance than some of the other systems developed elsewhere in the world, in terms of FoM (53 kV) and the PRR (> 1 kHz). The system can be further improved in terms of consistency (jitter) and intensity by use of a triggered switch and hydrogen gas at 100 bar pressure as the switching medium respectively. The profile of the TEM feed plates of the HIRA antenna may be further improved to have a better antenna aperture fill factor. Such multiple systems in an arrayed manner may be used either for higher power output/better agility of the radiated field beam. This system will be fully exploited for the applications of susceptibility evaluation of electronic circuits, non-friendly applications as well as impulse radars

Les travaux présentés lors de cette thèse s’inscrivent dans le cadre des réseaux de microsystèmes communicants dont les réseaux de capteurs sont l’exemple le plus connu. La problématique adressée est la conception d’une interface radio communicante répondant aux besoins spécifiques des microsystèmes communicants : simplicité, faible coût, faible consommation, faible encombrement, haut débit et reconfigurabilité. Les technologies actuelles sans fil comme le WiFi, le Bluetooth, et Zigbee ne sont pas en mesure de répondre à ces contraintes spécifiques. L’étude se focalise sur la technologie IR-UWB (Impulse Radio Ultra-WideBand). Dans un premier temps, une étude conjointe sur la capacité du canal et l’implémentation matérielle est menée pour déterminer l’architecture optimale des émetteurs-récepteurs en IR-UWB. Cette étude propose l’utilisation d’une architecture multi bandes IR-UWB (MB-IR-UWB) à implémentation mixte à 60 GHz avec des antennes directives. Cette solution est optimisée sur les critères de débit et puissance consommée. Afin de supporter l’ensemble des besoins des applications des réseaux de microsystèmes communicants et l’évolution de l’environnement d’opération, la reconfigurabilité doit être implémentée dans les émetteur-récepteurs proposés. Ces travaux présentent une proposition de reconfigurabilité par paramètres, qui permet de supporter la plus grande gamme de reconfigurabilités multi propriétés (débit, taux d’erreur, portée, puissance consommée, …) de l’état de l’art. Enfin, pour valider par la mesure les travaux sur la reconfigurabilité et sur les architectures d’émetteur-récepteurs IR-UWB, des implémentations FPGA et ASIC sont réalisées. Un nouveau procédé de synchronisation et démodulation conjointe reconfigurable est proposé dans le récepteur IR-UWB BPSK S-Rake. Les mesures montrent que le circuit de traitement proposé améliore les performances en synchronisation, démodulation, efficacité, débit du réseau, consommation et complexité du circuit. L’émetteur-récepteur IR-UWB reconfigurable proposé atteint un débit et une gamme de reconfigurabilité supérieure à l’état de l’art. / The research work presented in this thesis is situated in the framework of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The issue addressed is the design of a radio interface answering the specific needs of WSNs: simplicity, low cost, low power, small size, high data rate and reconfigurability. Current wireless technologies like WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee are not able to respond to these requirements. Thus this study focuses on Impulse Radio Ultra-WideBand (IR-UWB) technology. At first, a joint study of the channel capacity and the hardware implementation is carried out to determine the optimal architecture of IR-UWB transceivers. This study proposes an architecture using multi-band IR-UWB (MB-UWB-IR) with a mixed implementation at 60 GHz with directional antennas. This solution is optimized according to the criteria of data rate and power consumption. To support the all the needs of WSN applications and to adapt to the evolution of the WSN’s environment, reconfigurability must be implemented in the proposed IR-UWB transceiver. This thesis presents a new solution: the reconfigurability by parameters. It supports the widest range of multi-property reconfigurability (with respect to data rate, bit error rate, radio range, power consumption, ...) of the state of the art. Finally, to validate these techniques by measurements, FPGA and ASIC implementations are realized by using the reconfigurability and the IR-UWB transceiver architecture proposed. A new method for joint synchronization and demodulation is proposed for a reconfigurable IR-UWB BPSK S-Rake receiver. The measurements show that the proposed technique improves the circuit performance: synchronization, demodulation, efficiency, network throughput, power consumption and complexity of the circuit. The proposed IR-UWB reconfigurable transceiver achieves a data rate and a wider range of reconfigurability compared to the state of the art

La réglementation mondiale, pour des appareils de courte portée, permet l’utilisation sans licence de plusieurs Gigahertz de bande autour de 60 GHz. La bande des 60 GHz répond aux besoins des applications telles que les réseaux de capteurs très haut débit autonome en énergie,ou les transmissions à plusieurs Gbit/s avec des contraintes de consommation d’énergie. Il y a encore peu de temps, les interfaces radios fonctionnant dans la bande millimétrique n’étaient réalisables qu’en utilisant des technologies III-V couteuses. Aujourd’hui, les avancées des technologies CMOS nanométriques permettent la conception et la production en masse des circuits intégrées radiofréquences (RFIC) à faible coût.Cette thèse s’inscrit dans des travaux de recherches dédiés à la réalisation d’un système dans un boîtier (SiP, System in Package) à 60 GHz contenant à la fois l’interface radio (bande de base et circuits RF) ainsi qu’un réseau d’antennes. La première partie de cette thèse est dédiée la conception de la tête RF de l’émetteur-récepteur à faible consommation pour l’interface radio. Les blocs clefs de cette tête RF (amplificateurs, mélangeurs et un oscillateur commandé en tension) sont conçus, réalisés et mesurés en utilisant la technologie CMOS 65 nm de ST Microelectronics. Des éléments actifs et passifs sont développés spécifiquement pour l’utilisation au sein de ces blocs. Une étape importante vers l’intégration de la tête RF complète de l’émetteur-récepteur est l’assemblage de ces blocs de base afin de réaliser une puce émetteur et une puce récepteur. A ce but, une tête RF pour le récepteur a été réalisée. Ce circuit présent une consommation et un encombrement plus réduit que l’état de l’art.La deuxième partie de cette thèse présente le développement des modèles comportementaux des blocs de base conçus. Ces modèles au niveau système sont nécessaires afin de simuler le comportement du SIP, qui devient trop complexe si des modèles détaillés du niveau circuitsont utilisés. Dans cette thèse, une nouvelle technique modélisant le comportement en régime transitoire et régime permanent ainsi que le bruit de phase des oscillateurs commandés en tension est proposée. Ce modèle est implémenté dans le langage de description de matérielVHDL-AMS. La technique proposée utilise des réseaux de neurones artificiels pour approximer la caractéristique non linéaire du circuit. La dynamique est décrite dans l’espace d’état. Grâce à ce modèle, il est possible de réduire d’une façon drastique le temps de calcul des simulations système tout en conservant une excellente précision / Worldwide regulations for short range communication devices allow the unlicensed use of several Gigahertz of bandwidth in the frequency band around 60GHz. This 60GHz band is ideally suited for applications like very high data rate, energy-autonomous wireless sensor networks or Gbit/s multimedia links with low power constraints. Not long ago, radio interfaces that operate in the millimeter-wave frequency range could only be realized using expensive compound semiconductor technologies. Today, the latest sub-micron CMOS technologies can be used to design 60GHz radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs)at very low cost in mass production. This thesis is part of an effort to realize a low power System in Package (SiP) including both the radio interface (with baseband and RF circuitry) and an antenna array to directly transmit and receive a 60GHz signal. The first part of this thesis deals with the design of the low power RF transceiver front-end for the radio interface. The key building blocks of this RF front-end (amplifiers, mixers and a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)) are designed, realized and measured using the 65nm CMOS technology of ST Microelectronics. Full custom active and passive devices are developed for the use within these building blocks. An important step towards the full integration of the RF transceiver front-end is the assembly of these building blocks to form basic transmitter and receiver chips. Circuits with small chip size and low power consumption compared to the state of the art have been accomplished.The second part of this thesis concerns the development of behavioral models for the designed building blocks. These system level models are necessary to simulate the behavior of the entire SiP, which becomes too complex when using detailed circuit level models. In particular, a novel technique to model the transient, steady state and phase noise behavior of the VCO in the hardware description language VHDL-AMS is proposed and implemented. The model uses a state space description to describe the dynamic behavior of the VCO. Its nonlinearity is approximated by artificial neural networks. A drastic reduction of simulation time with respect to the circuit level model has been achieved, while at the same time maintaining a very high level of accuracy

La technologie Ultra WideBand (UWB) sur fibre est une solution prometteuse pour répondre aux enjeux des futurs réseaux de communication WLAN/WPAN. Les caractéristiques de la fibre, incluant son énorme bande passante, offrent la possibilité d'une bonne qualité de service à longue portée. La propagation sans-fil UWB doit être réalisée sous des contraintes de densité spectrale de puissance particulières, imposées par l'autorité de régulation (FCC pour les Etats-Unis). La nouveauté de notre travail provient de I' exploitation des avantages d'un amplificateur optique à semi-conducteurs (SOA) afin d'obtenir une extension de portée à un coût et une complexité limités. Cependant, les effets non linéaires et le bruit d'émission spontanée amplifiée (ASE), intrinsèques à ce type de composant, sont susceptibles de dégrader la performance du système. La réduction de ces effets indésirables a donc été d'une importance centrale dans cette étude. Les non-linéarités du SOA ont été compensées en appliquant une solution de pré-distorsion analogique des formes d'ondes électriques. Un traitement basé sur phaser a également été proposé pour réduire simultanément I' influence de I'ASE et linéariser les caractéristiques du SOA, grâce à des opérations de chirping réparties entre l'émetteur et le récepteur. Avec la transmission Impulse Radio, en raison des propriétés temporelles des formats de modulation, des raies spectrales apparaissent, ce qui peut violer la limite FCC ou réduire I' efficacité énergétique. Une nouvelle technique de randomisation de formes d'ondes a été étudiée, qui s'est révélée efficace pour supprimer ces pics spectraux. Les trois approches ont montré un grand potentiel avec les formats On Off Keying et Pulse Position Modulation, à longue portée optique. Les performances d'une modulation différentielle Chaos Shift Keying ont finalement été examinées; une probabilité d'erreur inférieure a été obtenue expérimentalement en comparaison avec d'autres modulations non cohérentes. / Ultra WideBand (UWB) over fiber is a promising technology for meeting the demands of future wireless local-area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal-area networks (WPANs). Thanks to the enormous bandwidth and fiber characteristics, a high communication quality may be established at long reach. UWB wireless propagation must be achieved with special power and spectral constraints fixed by the regulatory bodies (e.g. US Federal Communication Commission). The novelty of our work originates from exploiting the benefits of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) so as to get a reach extension at limited cost and complexity. However, the inherent nonlinear effects and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise associated to such device may affect the system performance.Overcoming these impairments has been of central importance in this study. SOA nonlinearities have been mitigated by applying analog pre-distortion in electrical domain. Phaser-based processing was also proposed to simultaneously reduce ASE influence and linearize SOA characteristics, thanks to up/down chirping performed on the transmitter/receiver sides. With Impulse Radio UWB transmission, due to the time properties of modulation patterns, discrete lines arise in the corresponding spectrum, which may violate FCC limit or reduce the power efficiency. A new shape randomization technique has been investigated, which proved to be effective in suppressing these spectral spikes. The three approaches have shown a great potential with On Off Keying and Pulse Position Modulation formats at long optical reach.The performance of Differential Chaos Shift Keying was finally examined in the over fiber system, a lower error probability was experimentally achieved in comparison with other non-coherent modulations.

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In turn, the modern communication systems such as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiMAX, whose services are highly demanded by society, have required the development of antennas having, as its main features, and low cost profile, and reduced dimensions and weight. In this context, the microstrip antenna is presented as an excellent choice for communications systems today, because (in addition to meeting the requirements mentioned intrinsically) planar structures are easy to manufacture and integration with other components in microwave circuits. Consequently, the analysis and synthesis of these devices mainly, due to the high possibility of shapes, size and frequency of its elements has been carried out by full-wave models, such as the finite element method, the method of moments and finite difference time domain. However, these methods require an accurate despite great computational effort. In this context, computational intelligence (CI) has been used successfully in the design and optimization of microwave planar structures, as an auxiliary tool and very appropriate, given the complexity of the geometry of the antennas and the FSS considered. The computational intelligence is inspired by natural phenomena such as learning, perception and decision, using techniques such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, fractal geometry and evolutionary computation. This work makes a study of application of computational intelligence using meta-heuristics such as genetic algorithms and swarm intelligence optimization of antennas and frequency selective surfaces. Genetic algorithms are computational search methods based on the theory of natural selection proposed by Darwin and genetics used to solve complex problems, eg, problems where the search space grows with the size of the problem. The particle swarm optimization characteristics including the use of intelligence collectively being applied to optimization problems in many areas of research. The main objective of this work is the use of computational intelligence, the analysis and synthesis of antennas and FSS. We considered the structures of a microstrip planar monopole, ring type, and a cross-dipole FSS. We developed algorithms and optimization results obtained for optimized geometries of antennas and FSS considered. To validate results were designed, constructed and measured several prototypes. The measured results showed excellent agreement with the simulated. Moreover, the results obtained in this study were compared to those simulated using a commercial software has been also observed an excellent agreement. Specifically, the efficiency of techniques used were CI evidenced by simulated and measured, aiming at optimizing the bandwidth of an antenna for wideband operation or UWB (Ultra Wideband), using a genetic algorithm and optimizing the bandwidth, by specifying the length of the air gap between two frequency selective surfaces, using an optimization algorithm particle swarm / As superf?cies seletivas de freq??ncia, ou FSS (Frequency Selective Surfaces), s?o estruturas constitu?das por arranjos peri?dicos de elementos condutores, denominados patches, geralmente muito finos e impressos sobre camadas diel?tricas, ou de aberturas, perfuradas em superf?cies met?licas muito finas, para aplica??es nas faixas de microondas e ondas milim?tricas. Estas estruturas s?o frequentemente utilizadas em aeronaves, m?sseis, sat?lites, radomes, antenas de refletor, antenas de alto ganho e fornos de microondas, por exemplo. A utiliza??o destas estruturas tem como objetivo principal filtrar bandas de freq??ncia, que podem ser de transmiss?o ou de rejei??o, dependendo da especificidade da aplica??o desejada. Por sua vez, os sistemas de comunica??o modernos, tais como GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi e WiMAX, cujos servi?os s?o altamente demandados pela sociedade, t?m requerido o desenvolvimento de antenas que apresentem, como caracter?sticas principais, baixo custo e perfil, al?m de peso e dimens?es reduzidas. Neste contexto, a antena de microfita se apresenta como uma excelente op??o para os sistemas de comunica??es atuais, pois (al?m de atenderem intrinsicamente aos requisitos mencionados) s?o estruturas planares de f?cil fabrica??o e integra??o com outros componentes de circuitos de microondas. Em consequ?ncia, a an?lise e principalmente a s?ntese destes dispositivos, em face da grande possibilidade de formas, dimens?es e periodicidade de seus elementos, tem sido efetuada atrav?s de modelos de onda completa, tais como o m?todo dos elementos finitos, o m?todo dos momentos e o m?todo das diferen?as finitas no dom?nio do tempo. Entretanto, estes m?todos apesar de precisos requerem um grande esfor?o computacional. Neste contexto, a intelig?ncia computacional (IC) tem sido utilizada com sucesso nos projetos e na otimiza??o de estruturas planares de microondas, como uma ferramenta auxiliar e muito adequada, dada a complexidade das geometrias das antenas e das FSS consideradas. A intelig?ncia computacional ? inspirada em fen?menos naturais como: aprendizado, percep??o e decis?o, utilizando t?cnicas como redes neurais artificiais, l?gica fuzzy, geometria fractal e computa??o evolucion?ria. Este trabalho realiza um estudo de aplica??o de intelig?ncia computacional utilizando metaheur?sticas como algoritmos gen?ticos e intelig?ncia de enxames na otimiza??o de antenas e superf?cies seletivas de frequ?ncia. Os algoritmos gen?ticos s?o m?todos computacionais de busca baseados na teoria da sele??o natural proposta por Darwin e na gen?tica utilizados para resolver problemas complexos como, por exemplo, problemas em que o espa?o de busca cresce com as dimens?es do problema. A otimiza??o por enxame de part?culas tem como caracter?sticas a utiliza??o da intelig?ncia de forma coletiva sendo aplicada em problemas de otimiza??o em diversas ?reas de pesquisa. O objetivo principal deste trabalho consiste na utiliza??o da intelig?ncia computacional, na an?lise e s?ntese de antenas e de FSS. Foram consideradas as estruturas de um monopolo planar de microfita, do tipo anel, e de uma FSS de dipolos em cruz. Foram desenvolvidos os algoritmos de otimiza??o e obtidos resultados para as geometrias otimizadas de antenas e FSS consideradas. Para a valida??o de resultados foram projetados, constru?dos e medidos v?rios prot?tipos. Os resultados medidos apresentaram excelente concord?ncia com os simulados. Al?m disso, os resultados obtidos neste trabalho foram comparados com os simulados atrav?s de um software comercial, tendo sido observada tamb?m uma excelente concord?ncia. Especificamente, a efici?ncia das t?cnicas de IC utilizadas foram comprovadas atrav?s de resultados simulados e medidos, objetivando a otimiza??o da largura de banda de uma antena para opera??o em banda ultralarga, ou UWB (Ultra Wideband), com a utiliza??o de um algoritmo gen?tico e da otimiza??o da largura de banda, atrav?s da especifica??o do comprimento do gap de ar entre duas superf?cies seletivas de frequ?ncia, utilizando um algoritmo de otimiza??o por enxame de part?culas

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:56:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SinaraRM_DISSERT.pdf: 1037040 bytes, checksum: 9dd71f16b45358e60b8b82862adaafc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-15 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This paper presents an evaluative study about the effects of using a machine learning technique on the main features of a self-organizing and multiobjective genetic algorithm (GA). A typical GA can be seen as a search technique which is usually applied in problems involving no polynomial complexity. Originally, these algorithms were designed to create methods that seek acceptable solutions to problems where the global optimum is inaccessible or difficult to obtain. At first, the GAs considered only one evaluation function and a single objective optimization. Today, however, implementations that consider several optimization objectives simultaneously (multiobjective algorithms) are common, besides allowing the change of many components of the algorithm dynamically (self-organizing algorithms). At the same time, they are also common combinations of GAs with machine learning techniques to improve some of its characteristics of performance and use. In this work, a GA with a machine learning technique was analyzed and applied in a antenna design. We used a variant of bicubic interpolation technique, called 2D Spline, as machine learning technique to estimate the behavior of a dynamic fitness function, based on the knowledge obtained from a set of laboratory experiments. This fitness function is also called evaluation function and, it is responsible for determining the fitness degree of a candidate solution (individual), in relation to others in the same population. The algorithm can be applied in many areas, including in the field of telecommunications, as projects of antennas and frequency selective surfaces. In this particular work, the presented algorithm was developed to optimize the design of a microstrip antenna, usually used in wireless communication systems for application in Ultra-Wideband (UWB). The algorithm allowed the optimization of two variables of geometry antenna - the length (Ls) and width (Ws) a slit in the ground plane with respect to three objectives: radiated signal bandwidth, return loss and central frequency deviation. These two dimensions (Ws and Ls) are used as variables in three different interpolation functions, one Spline for each optimization objective, to compose a multiobjective and aggregate fitness function. The final result proposed by the algorithm was compared with the simulation program result and the measured result of a physical prototype of the antenna built in the laboratory. In the present study, the algorithm was analyzed with respect to their success degree in relation to four important characteristics of a self-organizing multiobjective GA: performance, flexibility, scalability and accuracy. At the end of the study, it was observed a time increase in algorithm execution in comparison to a common GA, due to the time required for the machine learning process. On the plus side, we notice a sensitive gain with respect to flexibility and accuracy of results, and a prosperous path that indicates directions to the algorithm to allow the optimization problems with "η" variables / Este trabalho apresenta um estudo avaliativo dos efeitos da utiliza??o de uma t?cnica de aprendizado de m?quina nas caracter?sticas principais de um algoritmo gen?tico (GA) multiobjetivo e auto-organiz?vel. Um GA t?pico pode ser visto como uma t?cnica de busca que ? normalmente aplicada em problemas que envolvem complexidade n?o polinomial. Originalmente, estes algoritmos foram idealizados para criar m?todos que buscam solu??es aceit?veis para problemas em que os ?timos globais s?o inacess?veis ou s?o de dif?cil obten??o. A princ?pio, os GAs consideravam apenas uma fun??o de avalia??o e um ?nico objetivo de otimiza??o. Hoje, entretanto, s?o comuns as implementa??es que consideram diversos objetivos de otimiza??o simultaneamente (algoritmos multiobjetivos), al?m de permitir a altera??o de diversos componentes do algoritmo dinamicamente (algoritmos autoorganiz?veis). Ao mesmo tempo, s?o comuns tamb?m as combina??es dos GAs com t?cnicas de aprendizado de m?quina para melhorar algumas de suas caracter?sticas de desempenho e utiliza??o. Neste trabalho, um GA com recursos de aprendizado de m?quina foi analisado e aplicado em um projeto de antena. Utilizou-se uma t?cnica variante de interpola??o bic?bica, denominada Spline 2D, como t?cnica de aprendizado de m?quina para estimar o comportamento de uma fun??o de fitness din?mica, a partir do conhecimento obtido de um conjunto de experimentos realizados em laborat?rio. Esta fun??o de fitness ? tamb?m denominada de fun??o de avalia??o e ? respons?vel pela determina??o do grau de aptid?o de uma solu??o candidata (indiv?duo) em rela??o ?s demais de uma mesma popula??o. O algoritmo pode ser aplicado em diversas ?reas, inclusive no dom?nio das telecomunica??es, como nos projetos de antenas e de superf?cies seletivas de frequ?ncia. Neste trabalho em particular, o algoritmo apresentado foi desenvolvido para otimizar o projeto de uma antena de microfita, comumente utilizada em sistemas de comunica??o sem fio e projetada para aplica??o em sistemas de banda ultra larga (Ultra-Wideband - UWB). O algoritmo permitiu a otimiza??o de duas vari?veis da geometria da antena - o Comprimento (Ls) e a Largura (Ws) de uma fenda no plano de terra com rela??o a tr?s objetivos: largura de banda do sinal irradiado, perda de retorno e desvio da frequ?ncia central. As duas dimens?es (Ls e Ws) s?o usadas como vari?veis em tr?s distintas fun??es de interpola??o, sendo uma Spline para cada objetivo da otimiza??o, para compor uma fun??o de fitness agregada e multiobjetiva. O resultado final proposto pelo algoritmo foi comparado com o resultado obtido de um programa simulador e com o resultado medido de um prot?tipo f?sico da antena constru?da em laborat?rio. No estudo apresentado, o algoritmo foi analisado com rela??o ao seu grau de sucesso, no que diz respeito a quatro caracter?sticas importantes de um GA multiobjetivo auto-organiz?vel: desempenho, flexibilidade, escalabilidade e exatid?o. Ao final do estudo, observou-se na compila??o do algoritmo um aumento no tempo de execu??o em compara??o a um GA comum, por conta do tempo necess?rio para o processo de aprendizagem. Como ponto positivo, notou-te um ganho sens?vel com rela??o a flexibilidade e a exatid?o dos resultados apresentados, al?m de um caminho pr?spero que indica dire??es para permitir com que o algoritmo permita a otimiza??o de problemas com η vari?veis

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-04-20T12:33:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 analuizasiqueiraferreira.pdf: 2299159 bytes, checksum: 4a5563c4c2ee9592b3902e4440a2031b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-04-20T12:45:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 analuizasiqueiraferreira.pdf: 2299159 bytes, checksum: 4a5563c4c2ee9592b3902e4440a2031b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-20T12:45:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 analuizasiqueiraferreira.pdf: 2299159 bytes, checksum: 4a5563c4c2ee9592b3902e4440a2031b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-11 / O uso de banda ultra-larga (ultra wideband - UWB) vem sendo tema de pesquisa na área da comunicação sem fio há cerca de 20 anos e os bons resultados obtidos tem levado à introdução de novas tecnologias no mercado de transmissão de dados a curtas distâncias. No entanto, o uso de UWB para a transmissão de dados através da rede elétrica (power line communications - PLC) ainda é uma questão de investigação em aberto, interessante e promissora para um conjunto específico de aplicações que demandam elevada taxa de transmissão em curtas distâncias e baixo custo, tais como impressoras, monitores, etc. Neste contexto, a presente dissertação analisa diferentes aspectos da transmissão UWB através de cabos de distribuição de energia elétrica. Um sistema UWB impulsivo é analisado quando i) o canal PLC é outdoor, linear e variante no tempo; ii) o canal PLC é indoor, linear e invariante no tempo; iii) há ruído AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) e iv) há ruído AIGN (additive impulsive Gaussian noise). Além disso, são respondidas questões referentes à adequação do pulso UWB ao canal de comunicação, considerando o espectro do mesmo quando o canal PLC é outdoor ou indoor. As modulações UWB investigadas são pela posição do pulso (pulse position modulation - PPM) e pela amplitude do pulso (pulse amplitude modulation - PAM). Além de apresentar diretrizes para o projeto de um sistema UWB para aplicações PLC, a presente dissertação analisa diversas estratégias e técnicas para recepção e redução da complexidade computacional do receptor UWB. Os resultados indicam que o uso de UWB é interessante para algumas aplicações específicas que envolvam elevada taxa de transmissão, através de curtas distâncias e baixo custo. / Ultra wideband modulation (UWB) has been a subject of research in the wireless field for nearly 20 years and the good results achieved have led to the introduction of new technologies in the market of short distances data communication. However, the employment of UWB for data transmission over power lines (PLC) is still an open, interesting and promising research theme for a specific set of applications which require high throughput over short distances and low cost, such as printers, computer monitors, etc. In this context, this dissertation examines several aspects of the UWB transmission through electricity distribution cables. An UWB impulsive system is analyzed when i) the PLC channel is outdoor, linear and time invariant; ii) the PLC channel is indoor, linear and time invariant; iii) there is AWGN (additive white gaussian noise) and iv) there is AIGN (additive impulsive gaussian noise) noise. Moreover, many questions regarding the adequacy of UWB pulse for the communication channel are answered, taking into account its spectrum when the PLC channel is outdoor or indoor. The UWB modulations investigated are pulse position modulation (PPM) and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). Apart from presenting some guidelines to project a UWB system, this work analyzes different strategies and techniques for reception that reduce the computational complexity of the UWB receiver. The results point out that UWB is interesting for some specific applications which require high data transmission rate in short distances and low cost.