Abstract:
A beam alignment method includes receiving, at a current location by using a plurality of receive beams, a transmit beam from a network device, and determining reference signal received power (RSRP) of each of the plurality of receive beams; selecting an optimal receive beam from the plurality of receive beams based on the RSRP; determining, based on the optimal receive beam, a rotation angle and a rotation direction for a terminal device to align a peak direction beam with the transmit beam; and adjusting a location of the terminal device based on the rotation angle and the rotation direction, and forming an optimal beam pair by using the peak direction beam and the transmit beam at an adjusted location.
Abstract:
Characterizing a radiation pattern of an antenna, accurately, is needed to improve the determination of an angle arrival of a radar signal received by the antenna. Accordingly, an optimized monotonic fitting approach with corresponding method and system are provided. The approach represents an approximation of the radiation pattern as a window map having a plurality of windows. The approach finds an optimized monotonic fit of the radiation pattern by adjusting the window map, one window at a time, and testing the resulting new approximations. The approach tests whether a new approximation is a better fit then the other approximations, is monotonic, and has a minimum slope. The approach enforces monotonicity and a minimum slope for ambiguity resolution. The approach further includes calculating an angle arrival of the radar signal based on the optimized monotonic fit.
Abstract:
In order to improve the reliability and the accuracy of a position-finding method such as the GPS method, the quality of a radio link which is used for the position-finding method is determined by estimating a parameter, in particular the Rice factor of the amplitude distribution density, which is characteristic of the ratio of the strength of a signal transmitted via a line-of-sight path, with respect to the strength of the signals transmitted via non-line-of-sight paths.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a synthetic material end for a DC electric cable. In the invention, the synthetic material end includes a composite insert that is placed between the inner insulator and the outer insulating sleeve of the cable, the insert generally being in the form of a sheath surrounding the inner insulator over a partially-stripped portion of the cable, and being made up of a resistive portion of high resistivity, and of a semi-conductive portion of lower resistivity, the interface between said resistive and semi-conductive portions forming a deflector, the end of the resistive portion that is remote from the deflector being electrically connected to the central conductor of the cable, and the end of the semi-conductive portion that is remote from the deflector being electrically connected to the outer semi-conductor of the cable. Application to making connections to high-voltage electric cables.
Abstract:
An interference-aided signal acquisition and tracking system with temporal beam forming for a rotating vehicle enhances signal to noise ratio using interference or jamming signals. An antenna receives interference signals and desired navigation signals. A RF processing function connected to the antenna processes the received interference signals and the desired navigation signals into IF signals. An A/D converter connected to the RF processing function digitizes the interference signals and desired navigation signals and provides a digitized IF signal. A tracking filter tracks amplitude variations of the interference signals and provides a rotation angle estimate signal of the rotating vehicle. A signal modulation function connected to the tracking filter and the A/D converter varies gain of the IF signal to enhance the signal to noise ratio.
Abstract:
A method of estimating the position of a transmitter using angle-of-arrival values determined at each of a plurality of base stations. The method includes calculating a position estimation using the angle-of-arrival values from all of the base stations, calculating an error at each of the base station, and removing those base stations whose error exceeds a threshold from the calculation.
Abstract:
Provided herein is a radio wave receiving apparatus including a signal processing circuit comprising: a means for the Fourier transform in respect of azimuth of an electric field signal outputted from an antenna receiving circuit; a means for the Fourier transform in respect of azimuth of the antenna pattern of an antenna; a means for dividing the Fourier transform signal derived from the electric field signal by the antenna pattern Fourier transform signal; a low-pass filter for subjecting the divided signal to low-pass filtering; a means for extracting exponential function components of the output signal of the low-pass filter; a means for extending the band of the output signal of the low-pass filter beyond the cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter by using the exponential function components; and a means for subjecting the band-extended signal to Fourier inverse transform in respect of azimuth, the signal after the Fourier inverse transform being outputted as a final antenna output. The antenna resolution thereof is improved by thus using a transfer function in the azimuthal frequency domain resulting from the Fourier transform in respect of azimuth of the antenna pattern.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for determining the angles-of-arrival and the polarization states of incoming RF signals of unknown polarization using five or more RF sensing antenna elements of differing yet known orientations of polarization. The apparatus includes an array of broad gain, substantially identical, RF sensing antenna elements of differing yet known orientations of polarization, an antenna element selection network, RF receiver channels, processing means for determining uncorrected phase differences from received RF signal phases for pairs of antennas, processing means for determining received signal powers, processing means for determining from RF signal powers corrections to the phase difference errors caused by polarization diversity between pairs of antennas, processing means for correcting uncorrected phase differences with determined phase difference corrections, processing means for determining incoming RF signal frequencies, processing means for determining ambiguous and unambiguous angles-of-arrival of incoming RF signals and processing means for determining the polarization states of incoming RF signals.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for determining the angles-of-arrival and the polarization states of incoming RF signals of unknown polarization using three or more RF sensing antenna elements of differing yet known orientations of polarization. The apparatus includes an array of broad gain, substantially identical, RF sensing antenna elements of differing yet known orientations of polarization, an antenna element selection network, RF receiver channels, processing means for determining uncorrected phase differences from received RF signal phases for pairs of antennas, processing means for determining received signal powers, processing means for determining from RF signal powers corrections to the phase difference errors caused by polarization diversity between pairs of antennas, processing means for correcting uncorrected phase differences with determined phase difference corrections, processing means for determining incoming RF signal frequencies, processing means for determining ambiguous and unambiguous angles-of-arrival of incoming RF signals and processing means for determining the polarization states of incoming RF signals.
Abstract:
A CMA-based antenna system is disclosed which shows an improved receiving performance by reducing phase differences in the received signals which have been weighted. The CMA-based antenna system comprises a plurality of antenna, weight circuits, an adder, an error detector and a synthesis controller. The synthesis controller controls the weight circuits so as not only to make the adder output at a preset level but also to cause any differences among the weight circuit outputs not to increase. In order to cope with an error of symbol synchronization and a delayed wave, the CMA-based antenna system may further have a kind of equalizer inserted before the weight circuit in each antenna circuit.