What Limits mmWave Human-State Sensing for Robot Perception?
What Limits mmWave Human-State Sensing for Robot Perception?
This research investigates the fundamental limits of millimeter-wave radar for human-state sensing in robotics, proposing a framework that models humans and environments as time-varying scattering fields to define an error floor based on bandwidth, aperture, and signal-to-noise ratio. By treating existing frame fusion and estimator methods as probes against this theoretical limit, the study demonstrates how specific techniques reduce joint localization errors—for instance, adding a second viewpoint lowers mean per-joint position error from about 97 to 65 mm—providing a principled basis for prioritizing observation design versus estimator capacity in deployment scenarios.
The study establishes a Cramer-Rao type error floor for millimeter-wave human-state sensing based on bandwidth, aperture, and signal-to-noise ratio, demonstrating that existing frame fusion and estimator strategies shift joint localization errors in predicted directions, such as reducing mean per-joint position error from approximately 97 to 65 mm with an additional viewpoint.
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frame fusion, multi viewpoint, return selection, and pose estimation methods as matched probes of this floor rather than as competing pipelines. Under the evaluated conditions, experiments on three datasets and a live deployment show these strategies move joint localization error in the predicted directions, for example lowering mean per-joint position error from about 97 to 65 mm with a second viewpoint, while a st
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er, and cost budgets have limited apertures, producing joint-localization errors on the order of decimeters at a few meters, large enough to compromise the safety margins and tracking accuracy a robot depends on. Existing pipelines reduce pose error through frame fusion, multiple viewpoints, return selection, or stronger estimators, but examine one technique at a time, without relating its effect to a shared measurem
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arXiv:2611.08863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistive robots and search-and-rescue platforms require reliable human state sensing in smoke, darkness, and privacy-sensitive environments, where cameras and LiDAR may be unreliable Millimeter-wave radar offers an alternative that works without ambient light, penetrates smoke, and does not capture visual appearance. However, the compact arrays that fit robot size, pow
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