Noncontact Measurement of Heartbeat of Humans and Chimpanzees Using Millimeter-Wave Radar With Topology Method

Abstract

This letter proposes a method to determine the filter parameters required for the topology method, which is a radar-based noncontact method for the measurement of heart interbeat intervals. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated by performing radar measurements involving both human participants and chimpanzee subjects. The proposed method is designed to enable the setting of the filter cutoff frequency to eliminate respiratory components while maintaining the higher harmonics of the heartbeat components. Measurements using a millimeter-wave radar system and a reference contact-type electrocardiogram sensor demonstrate that the smallest errors that occur when measuring heart interbeat intervals using the proposed method can be as small as 4.43 and 2.55 ms for humans and chimpanzees, respectively. These results indicate the possibility of using noncontact physiological measurements to monitor both humans and chimpanzees.