This is the eighth edition of our biannual newsletter. The aim is to give an update about recent developments within the Radio Systems group of the University of Twente. We also share here more general information concerning interesting conferences and developments.
Since September last year, the Radio Systems group celebrated 5 PhD defenses. Alex Matthee defended his thesis on "Isolated Micro-grids and Electromagnetic Compatibility: Analysis, Mitigation Techniques, and Measurements of Rapid Load Changes." The title of the thesis of Daria Nemashkalo was "Multichannel Time-Domain Measurements for EMI Filter Optimization." Danillo Izzo defended his thesis on “Development of a Hybrid Semi-Anechoic/Reverberation Chamber for Radiated Immunity Testing of Complex Systems”. The last two theses were defended in 2025 by Denys Pokotilov on “Time-Domain Magnetic-Field Measurements Below 30 MHz From Hours to Mere Minutes” and Vasso Gkatsi on “Risk-based EMC Engineering for Susceptibility Exposure: Thinking outside the box.”
Our colleagues Anastasia Lavrenko and Andrei Mogilnikov completed 3 month research stay at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where they were testing novel harmonic radar units and harmonic tags developed within NWO VENI project 19156 "Beyond bugging: wireless sensing and monitoring with harmonic radar." Furthermore, the Radio Systems group has started activities in multiple EU projects:
- SMARTTEST: The goal is to develop and validate the first proactive/preventive and contact-free remote health monitoring system by integrating human sensing, vital function monitoring and health status assessment into wireless communication networks by exploiting ‘integrated sensing and communication’ technologies. Within the project, 2 PhD students are assigned to the Radio Systems group and 1 PhD student to the Biomedical Signals and Systems group.
- NEPIT: Within NEPIT, novel methods are developed to model, simulate, design, evaluate, implement, measure and monitor cost-effective, reliable, and efficient methodologies, including design guidelines in the field of EM propagation and interference, with a particular focus on electrically large (w.r.t. wavelength) and complex systems. Within this project, 2 PhD students of the Radio Systems group are involved.
- ISENSE: The aim is to tackle the issue of electromagnetic interference by developing innovative EMI sensors and monitoring methodologies, early warning tools for detecting EMI occurrences, the formulation of novel modelling and test strategies. Also, in this project 2 Radio Systems PhD students will be active.
- PATTERN: The PATTERN project aims at the holistic design for EMI solutions exploiting the recent developments and benefits of Artificial Intelligence. The Radio Systems group will contribute to this project with 1 PhD student.
- ADA-BEAM, a lump sum open call project for European SNS project 6G-Bricks, aims at testing distributed MIMO prototype for integrated communications and multi-task human sensing functionalities. This project lasts for 6 months in the first half of 2025, and is a collaboration among UBristol, KU Leuven and UTwente.
To improve our research infrastructure, a marker based MoCAP system was acquired which is used to determine the ground truth for RF sensing experiments in the context of projects linked to ISAC.
WELCOME TO
- Ioannis Margaritis and Veyis Solak within the NEPIT project.
- Timothy Young and Sifiso Sechemane as visiting Erasmus+ students from South-Africa.
- Alina Popova a visiting Erasmus+ student from Ukraine.
Successfull MSc defenses
- April 8, 2025 | Miriam Araj: “Utilizing ITU Models for Spectrum Monitoring.”
Successfull BSc defenses
- Alfonso Capitano: "Optimisation of Auxiliary Transmitter Placement in a Dual-Mode X-Band FMCW Harmonic Radar."
Successfull Internships
- Thijmen Hoeksma finalized his Internship at Aeronemic with a well-deserved 8.5!
events, Conferences and Publications
- Dr. Hartman has become a Young Professional Ambassador of the IEEE EMC Society.
- Niek Moonen will be instated as vice-chair for the Dutch EMC-ESD association starting in June 2025.
- Tom Hartman and Niek Moonen are giving a talk during the Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility Seminar 2025 - Understanding Skills and Training in EMC and Power Electronics organized at Warwick University.
- Yang Miao gave three talks on Integrated Sensing and Communications: at RDI, TUDelft, as well as the FNS event in Ede. She has also gave a talk to the OTP inspiration session organized by UTwente SBD.
- Our former undegraduate student Shaunak Kubal presented his paper "Performance Bounds for Single-Bit AOA-Based RF Source Localization" at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Hyderabad, India.
- The following papers have been published in journals:
- Biodegradable and Easy-to-Make Broadband Tissue Phantoms Between 0.4 and 6 GHz Based on Phosphate Buffered Saline Solution, A. Fernández Carnicero, S. Raman, A. Fernández-Escribano, M. Redondo-Horcajo, T. Suárez and A. K. Skrivervik. in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 2334-2344, April 2025.
- A Frequency Agile and Wide-Scanning CRLH Leaky Wave Antenna for Advanced Wireless Systems, Sajeev K F; Sujith Raman; Gopikrishna M. in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
- Mutual Coupling Correction Factor for Optimized Multiaxis Shielded Loop Antenna Magnetic Field Measurements, D. Pokotilov, R. Vogt-Ardatjew, T. Hartman and F. Leferink. in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.
- Research Trends of Conducted EMI Issues on Ship Applications, M. I. Sudrajat, N. Moonen and F. Leferink. in IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 68-77, 4th Quarter 2024.
Education
- Third quarter 2024-2025 |
- 56/6G Communication and Sensing Channels: 202300066
- Electromagnetic Compatibility: 191211040
- Fourth quarter 2024-2025 | Advanced Communication and Radar Systems: 202300065
- The TEMPEST Life-Long-Learning program ran for the 6th time this Febuari with 12 candidates from industry.
Miscellaneous
- On December 13th we had our annual summer Christmass party potlcuk style. Good times had by all!
