Biography

Thomas Pairon was born in Belgium in 1992. He received the electrical engineering degree from Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2015. From 2015 to 2016, he has been active on the study of the RF front-ends of radar transceivers for localization purposes. This work has been funded by BESTCOM. He is now PhD candidate at UCL (funded by FRS-FRIA). His research studies the RCS simulation of large moving objects – such as windtubines – with interests on the Doppler features of such rotating targets.


Interests

His research interests include physical optics, fast integral methods, Doppler signature and radars.

Thomas is also musician and likes going out of the office for some fresh air, nature, and climbing.


Publication

Journal

  • [DOI] T. Feuillen, T. Pairon, C. Craeye, and L. Vandendorpe, “Localization of Rotating Targets Using a Monochromatic Continuous-Wave Radar,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 16, pp. 2598-2601, 2017.
    [Bibtex]
    @article{boreal:189817,
     title = {Localization of Rotating Targets Using a Monochromatic Continuous-Wave Radar},
     author = {Feuillen, Thomas and Pairon, Thomas and Craeye, Christophe and Vandendorpe, Luc},
     abstract = {A simple and efficient localization method for rotating objects is introduced. The estimation of the position is performed using only a continuous-wave radar with multiple receiving antennas. The method relies on the establishment of a linear relation between the interelement phase shifts and frequency, which is exploitable in the near-to-intermediate field. The method is introduced, and its independence with respect to the shape of the target demonstrated. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study the variance of the proposed estimator. An experimental validation is carried out with a rotating cylinder and shows good agreement with simulations.},
     Keywords = {Radar ,   Estimation ,   Radar antennas ,   Receiving antennas ,   Frequency modulation ,   Signal to noise ratio ,   Angular velocity},
     language = {Anglais},
     journal = {IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters},
     volume = {16},
     pages = {2598 - 2601},
     issn = {1548-5757},
     doi = {10.1109/LAWP.2017.2735020},
     publisher = {I E E E},
     year = {2017},
     url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/189817}}

Conference

  • [DOI] J. Léger, T. Pairon, and C. Craeye, “Analytical Formulation for the micro-Doppler Spectrum for Rotating Targets in the Near-Field,” in Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation – EUCAP 2017, 2017.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{boreal:195155,
     title = {Analytical Formulation for the micro-Doppler Spectrum for Rotating Targets in the Near-Field},
     author = {Léger, Jean and Pairon, Thomas and Craeye, Christophe},
     abstract = {The analysis of the Doppler signal returned by rotating targets is of great interest in the framework of target recognition and equipment monitoring. An analytical expression of such a signal already exists for the far-field case, based on the Jacobi-Anger expansion. An extension of this analytical expression is proposed for the near-field case. The solution involves a closed-form expression of each harmonic complex coefficient. An error analysis is carried out.},
     Keywords = {Radar cross-sections , Taylor series , Jacobian matrices , Doppler radar , Radar imaging , Radar remote sensing},
     language = {Anglais},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EUCAP 2017},
     doi = {10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928495},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     year = {2017},
     url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195155}}
  • [DOI] S. Karki, J. I. Echeveste Guzman, T. Pairon, and C. Craeye, “Sequentially Shifted Beamforming from a Conformed Conical Array,” in Proceedings of the 47th European Microwave Conference 2017, 2017.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{boreal:195151,
     title = {Sequentially Shifted Beamforming from a Conformed Conical Array},
     author = {Karki, Sumit and Echeveste Guzman, Jose Ignacio and Pairon, Thomas and Craeye, Christophe},
     abstract = {A conical frustum array capable of beamforming in azimuth is proposed. The design exploits the embedded element pattern of a single facet of the conical frustum array to determine the number of consecutive facets required, and to ascertain the directions at which a handover to the next set of facets is required. A simple beamforming architecture is also presented, which can perform sequential shifting of facets with a minimal number of analog switches and 15 true-time delay lines to produce 36 beams. Such conical frustum array can easily communicate with or track objects beneath when attached to flying platforms.},
     Keywords = {Array signal processing ,    Azimuth ,    Directive antennas ,    Radio frequency ,    Phased arrays},
     language = {Anglais},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th European Microwave Conference 2017},
     doi = {10.23919/EURAD.2017.8249223},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     year = {2017},
     url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195151}}
  • [DOI] T. Pairon, C. Craeye, and C. Oestges, “Doppler Spectrum of a Rotating Smooth Cylinder,” in Proceedings 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2016.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{boreal:179924,
     title = {Doppler Spectrum of a Rotating Smooth Cylinder},
     author = {Pairon, Thomas and Craeye, Christophe and Oestges, Claude},
     abstract = {The Doppler spectrum of a rotating smooth cylinder is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Since the studied object has a smooth surface and is large compared to the wavelength, the physical optics (PO) approximation is used. The integration of the surface currents is computed with a hybrid method which consists of integrating analytically the currents in one dimension using the stationary phase method (SPM), while the currents in the other dimension are integrated numerically. This enables a reduction of the computation time compared to a fully numerical integration. Simulations are compared with measurements.},
     Keywords = {ICTEAM:COMM},
     language = {Anglais},
     booktitle = {Proceedings 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)},
     doi = {10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7482004},
     year = {2016},
     url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/179924}}

Contact

Email : thomas.pairon@uclouvain.be

Phone : +32 10 47 23 10