Marco Antonio Marques Marinho

University of Brasília | UnB · Department of Electrical Engineering

Smart vehicles are emerging as a possible solution for multiple concerns in road traffic, such as mobility and safety. This work presents radio localization methods based on simultaneous direction of arrival (DOA), time-delay, and range estimation using the SAGE algorithm. The proposed methods do not rely on external sources of information, such as...

The Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) explains how to estimate an integer-valued number from the knowledge of the remainders obtained by dividing such unknown integer by co-prime integers. As an algebraic theorem, CRT is the basis for several techniques concerning data processing. For instance, considering a single-tone signal whose frequency value i...

Important signal processing techniques require that the response of the di�fferent elements of the array have specifi�c characteristics, which are often not achievable for real systems due, for instance, to the fact that the responses of the array elements are a�ffected and distorted by mutual coupling. In such cases, in order to allow the applicat...

The quest for compact antenna arrays able to perform robust beamforming and high resolution direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is pushing the antenna array dimensions to progressively shrink, with effects in terms of reduced preformance not only for the antenna but also for beamforming and DOA estimation algorithms, for which their assumptions a...

One of the main limitations that still keeps Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) from being adopted in a large scale is the limited energy supply, i.e. the lifetime of the nodes that constitute the network. The wireless communication between nodes is responsible for most of the energy consumed in WSNs. A promising method to improve the energy efficienc...

Energy consumption is a key issue to be handled in Wireless Sensor Networks, especially considering low-end sensor nodes, i.e. sensor with severe energy resources limitations. When sensor nodes have their energy resources depleted, they stop working which can compromise the whole network functioning, thus its lifetime. As communication is the most...

It is impossible to enforce exact responses for each sensor involved in an antenna array. Important signal processing techniques such as Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance (ESPRIT), Forward Backward Average (FBA) and Spatial Smoothing (SPS) rely on sensor arrays with Vandermonde or centro-hermitian responses. To achieve such...

In MIMO communications systems, the data has a natural multidimensional structure composed of time, frequency and space dimensions. Recently, multidimensional techniques that take into account the data multidimensional structure have been proposed for model order selection, parameter estimation and prewhitening. These multidimensional techniques re...

Business Intelligence (BI) systems are crucial for assisting the decision making processes of private and governmental institutions. The Human Resources Auditing Department (CGAUD) of the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (MP) has been developing its own BI for auditing the payroll of all federal employees since 2010. Given that...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are currently employed in a vast number of different applications ranging from home automation and health care to military systems. Although their application may vary greatly, WSNs share a common set of characteristics such as a limited energy supply and simple hardware. A common issue related with the application o...

By taking into account several dimension of the transmitted signal, such as space, frequency, period and time, MIMO-OFDM systems allow an increased spectral efficiency and an improved identifiability in comparison to matrix solutions. In this paper, we evaluate MIMO-OFDM systems for geometric scenarios where the narrow band approximation is violated....

Sensor arrays with Vandermonde or centro-hermitian responses cannot always be constructed. However, such array response structure can be achieved by means of a mapping which transforms the real array response to an array response with the desired properties by applying array interpolation algorithms. In this work a low-complexity, multi-sector, sig...

Research advances in materials science improved gradually photovoltaic systems efficiency. However, such systems are limited to work in the presence of sun light, and they also depend on the geographic localization and on the period of the year, usually limited to 6 to 8 hours a day. In order to take maximum advantage of solar panels, it is crucial...

Energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a limiting factor that hinders the application of such networks into solving a broader set of problems. Various ways of saving energy have been proposed, from energy efficient processing to power aware cluster organization. With communication between nodes being responsible for a large part o...

Recently antenna arrays have been incorporated in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in order to improve their communications capacities. Such antenna arrays can be further exploited in order to provide accurate estimation of a UAV pose and attitude which are necessary for the UAV movement and control. In this paper, we propose a pose estimation solut...

Wireless sensor networks are evolving to hybridnetworks in which static and mobile sensor nodes cooperate in order to address challenging requirements imposed by new emerging applications. However, due to the ad hoc nature of the network and especially to resources constraints of the sensor nodes, this cooperation is not trivial, requiring a number...

One possible way to define the end of lifetime for a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is to set a threshold for the number of disconnections among the sensor nodes so that above this level the WSN becomes unable to provide the quality of services required by the users or even totally loses its ability to provide any service at all. Disconnections isol...

The application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is hindered by the limited energy budget available for the member nodes. Energy aware solutions have been proposed for all tasks involved in WSNs, such as processing, routing, cluster formation and communication. With communication being responsible for a large part of the energetic demand of WSNs...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used in various applications such as civil and military surveillance, law enforcement, and support in natural disasters as well as in hazardous environments. Approaching and landing are necessary steps for all UAVs, indicating that radio altimeters are needed. In this paper, a radio altimeter based on an antenna...

This paper explores the usage of cooperative multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technique to minimize energy consumption used to establish communications among distant nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN). As energy depletion is an outstanding problem in WSN research field, a number of techniques aim to preserve such resource, especially by...