This paper presents a Doppler radar based on an injection-locked quadrature receiver (ILQR) architecture that can use the wireless communication signals from an input cable or an antenna to perform gesture sensing at a short distance. Since the proposed radar does not require an illumination source, radio interference does not occur. To study parametrically the effect of the signal parameters on radar detection performance, a simulation was carried out by modeling the radar system in the discrete-time domain, and the results were verified experimentally using an ac-
tuator. In demonstrated applications, the radar uses an input 20 MHz Long-Term Evolution (LTE) signal or captures an ambient Wi-Fi signal to detect several gestures quite successfully.Index Terms-Doppler radar, gesture sensor, injection locking, injection-locked quadrature receiver, injection pulling, radio interference, Wi-Fi radar, wireless communication signal.
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