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I am an assistant professor at the Radio Systems group at EEMCS. My background is in radio systems engineering and my main research interests are in signal processing and parameter estimation for wireless systems, particularly in application to radio localization and tracking.

I received my PhD in electrical engineering (signal theory) in the area of sub-Nyquist sampling of sparse analog signals at Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. Before joining University of Twente, I also spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute) and the Wireless Research Centre at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand developing a harmonic radar system for real-time tracking of flying insects with unmanned aerial vehicles. 

For further details and a list of open student projects please visit Research.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Harmonics
    • Radar
    • Insect
  • Computer Science

    • Design
    • Evaluation
    • Compressed Sensing
    • Dipole Antenna
  • Engineering

    • Transmitter

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My research focus is on signal processing and algorithm development for wireless systems, particularly applied to sensing and localization problems. I am always open for collaborations, so please don't hesitate to contact me at a.lavrenko@utwente.nl.

I have recently received an NWO VENI talent grant for developing an innovative tracking solutions using nonlinear radar. For more details check out "Beyond Bugging: wireless sensing and monitoring with harmonic radar" project at Research | Radio Systems (RS) (utwente.nl).

For a full list of my publications visit my page on Google Scholar Anastasia Lavrenko or Research gate Anastasia Lavrenko.

Publications

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2024

2023

Dual-Mode FMCW Harmonic Radar Supporting Auxiliary Transmitter Operation (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 2023 International Radar Conference, RADAR 2023 (Accepted/In press). Storz, G., Lavrenko, A., Cavers, J. & Woodward, G.Evaluation of GNSS-based Time Synchronisation for ToF Localisation with Software-Defined Radio (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] The 2023 IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference (Accepted/In press). Aanen, M. & Lavrenko, A.Compact Folded Meander-Line Harmonic Tag Antenna for Insect Tracking (2023)In 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE. Kumar, A. & Lavrenko, A.https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133399

2022

Effects of Bistatic Operation in Harmonic Radar (2022)In Proceedings of the 19th European Radar Conference (pp. 241-244). Lavrenko, A.Harmonic Radar With Adaptively Phase-Coherent Auxiliary Transmitters (2022)IEEE transactions on signal processing, 70, 1788-1802. Lavrenko, A., Cavers, J. K. & Woodward, G. K.https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2022.3164183

2021

Harmonic Radar with Adaptively Phase-Coherent Auxiliary Transmitters (2021)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Lavrenko, A., Cavers, J. K. & Woodward, G. K.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.13847Autonomous Swarm of UAVs for Tracking of Flying Insects with Harmonic Radar (2021)In 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring). Article 9449074 (IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring); Vol. 2021). IEEE. Lavrenko, A., Barry, Z., Norman, R., Frazer, C., Ma, Y., Woodward, G. & Pawson, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/vtc2021-spring51267.2021.9449074

2020

Two-region model for harmonic radar transponders (2020)Electronics letters, 56(16), 835-838. Lavrenko, A. & Cavers, J.https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2020.0779Compact low-cost FMCW harmonic radar for short range insect tracking (2020)In 2020 IEEE International Radar Conference (RADAR) (pp. 642-647). Article 09114612. IEEE. Storz, G. & Lavrenko, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR42522.2020.9114612Design and Evaluation of a Compact Harmonic Transponder for Insect Tracking (2020)IEEE microwave and wireless components letters, 30(4), 445-448. Article 9006943. Lavrenko, A., Litchfield, B., Woodward, G. & Pawson, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2020.2972744On the Use of Additional Transmitters for Increasing Detection Range in Harmonic Radar (2020)In 2019, 13th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS 2019 - Proceedings. Article 9008736. IEEE. Lavrenko, A., Pawson, S. & Cavers, J.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSPCS47537.2019.9008736Evaluation of an off-centre fed dipole antenna in passive harmonic radar tags (2020)In 2020 4th Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS 2020. Article 9059370. IEEE. Lawson, P., Godfrey, J. & Lavrenko, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/AMS48904.2020.9059370

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