[GSoC] Proposal for radar toolbox (gr-radar)

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Hi!

My name is Stefan Wunsch and I would like to make a proposal for GSoC
2014. My project of interest is the radar toolbox as mentioned on the
wiki page on gnuradio.org.

I am a fifth semester student in physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT) in Germany. At the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL)
I work as student research assistant in the field of radar signal
processing, especially FMCW/FSK radar, clutter detection and object
classification. I have started to work with GNU Radio a while ago and I
feel that a generic radar toolbox would be a great enhancement for the
framework.

The full proposal can be found on GitHub.

Any comments and feedback are appreciated before I finally upload it to
Google Melange!

Best regards
Stefan Wunsch

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On 03/18/2014 03:34 PM, Stefan Wunsch wrote:

classification. I have started to work with GNU Radio a while ago and I
feel that a generic radar toolbox would be a great enhancement for the
framework.

The full proposal can be found on GitHub.

GitHub - stwunsch/gsoc-proposal: GSoC14 proposal: GNU Radio Radar Toolbox

Any comments and feedback are appreciated before I finally upload it to
Google Melange!

You can (and should) immediately post a link to your github on Melange!

As for the proposal, it generally looks quite good. The timeline is
pretty coarse, and quite generous… I’d recommend an iterative approach
here: Start w/ Python blocks for basic stuff, which should be done on
the order of days. Then iteratively optimize timing-critical components
during the whole thing.

Also, I think tagged streams [0] would fit well into this structure,
especially for OFDM radar. Perhaps you can think about this and update
the proposal.

Martin

[0] http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_tagged_stream_blocks.html

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Hi Stefan - Nice proposal overall! Some items you’ll want to address
somewhere (either in the Melange area or in your proposal document):

  • How long have you been on the GR discussion list? Do you participate
    regularly?

  • Have you contributed any code back to GR or any other open-source
    project?

  • Will GSoC be your sole work for the summer? (no classes or other paid
    for work)

  • Do you have any known times you’ll be on vacation or otherwise
    unavailable? Obviously this does not over unexpected life events …

I’ll encourage you to get your proposal up on Melange; you can just
provide a link to your actual document – just 1 place to do updates.
Good luck! - MLD