摘要:
A radio wave incoming direction estimation apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention estimates an incoming direction of an incoming radio wave reaching an array antenna apparatus including a plurality of antennas. The radio wave incoming direction estimation apparatus includes a virtual current calculator, and an incoming direction estimator. The virtual current calculator calculates a virtual current at each antenna from a received current that is generated at each of the antennas by the incoming radio wave on the basis of data indicating a relationship between supplied power to each of the antennas and a current that is generated at each of the antennas by the supplied power. The incoming direction estimator estimates the incoming direction of the incoming radio wave on the basis of the virtual current at each of the antennas.
摘要:
An angle-resolving radar sensor, e.g., for motor vehicles, includes; an antenna having multiple antenna elements which are each switchable to one of multiple evaluation channels; and an evaluation device for determining the angle of incidence of a received signal based on the amplitudes measured in the evaluation channels. The number of antenna elements is greater than the number of evaluation channels and a switching device is provided to connect the evaluation channels alternatingly to different selections of antenna elements.
摘要:
It is disclosed to insert an anti-whitened data block, which is obtainable from a specific data block by anti-whitening, into a data block that is to be whitened by a whitening to yield a whitened data block, wherein the anti-whitening compensates the whitening so that the whitened data block will comprise the specific data block in non-whitened form. It is further disclosed to output, in a first operating mode, an output data block generated by one of whitening and de-whitening an input data block in its entirety, and outputting, in a second operating mode, one of: an output data block generated by one of whitening and de-whitening all parts of an input data block under exclusion of a specific data block contained in the input data block.
摘要:
An RFID tag reading system and method estimate true bearings of RFID tags associated with items located in a scan zone directly underneath an overhead array of antenna elements. A controller energizes a plurality of diametrically opposite antenna elements to yield electric fields having polarizations, and switches each antenna element between mutually orthogonal polarizations. A primary transmit beam and a primary receive beam are steered at a primary steering angle over the scan zone, and a plurality of secondary receive beams are steered over the scan zone at different secondary steering angles that are offset from the primary steering angle by receiving secondary receive signals from each tag, and by processing the secondary receive signals to estimate a true bearing for each tag.
摘要:
An RFID tag reading system and method estimate true bearings of RFID tags associated with items located in a scan zone directly underneath an overhead array of antenna elements. A controller energizes a plurality of diametrically opposite antenna elements to yield electric fields having polarizations, and switches each antenna element between mutually orthogonal polarizations. A primary transmit beam and a primary receive beam are steered at a primary steering angle over the scan zone, and a plurality of secondary receive beams are steered over the scan zone at different secondary steering angles that are offset from the primary steering angle by receiving secondary receive signals from each tag, and by processing the secondary receive signals to estimate a true bearing for each tag.
摘要:
A radar can detect target azimuths located outside and adjacent to a scanning angular range of a beam by determining changes in received signal strength (a signal-strength profile) in the azimuthal direction as a function of a beam azimuth in a predetermined scanning angular range, and estimating the target azimuth causing the signal-strength profile from the signal-strength profile, which is portion of a convex located adjacent to the outermost angle in the scanning angular range. For example, the target azimuth is estimated by a ratio between the received signal strength at the outermost angle of about 10.0° and the received signal strength at about 9.5°, which is one beam inside the outermost position.
摘要:
A smart antenna, i.e., blind adaptive antenna array, is a method and system to suppress multiple access interference and to improve performance, for example in a code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communications system, including third generation (3 g) cdma2000 and wide band (W)-CDMA. A convergence parameter is employed in a smart antenna processor. In general, a constant convergence parameter value is empirically determined and used after studying the convergence speed and the steady state mean square error (MSE) or other performance data, such as bit error rate. As the convergence parameter value increases, the convergence speed also increases but the MSE increases unfortunately, and vice versa. The traditional smart antenna with a constant convergence parameter would yield poor performance when the channel environment changes, which is true particularly when a mobile user moves around. In the present invention, the convergence parameter value is adaptively changed and employed in a smart antenna processor. Two exemplary methods to update the convergence parameter are described. By employing such an adaptive convergence parameter value, convergence speed can be increased and the steady state MSE can be decreased.
摘要:
A direction to the location of a mobile terminal from an antenna array is determined. A sequence of symbols from each antenna 2 in the array, is stored. The sequence contains a known training sequence. The sequence is space processed iteratively so as to produce the effect of the array having a major lobe in its polar diagram at a plurality of different successive directions. A set of crosscorrelation metrics is derived by calculating a crosscorrelation metric for each direction between the combined signals and the known training sequence. The ratio is calculated of the crosscorrelation metric for each direction to the power of the combined signals for that direction to produce a set of direction metrics. A direction is ascribed to the mobile terminal using the direction metrics to determine which direction is most likely.
摘要:
A signal-acquisition system (10) for a circular antenna array (12) includes a two-dimensional compressive receiver (18) that performs a two-dimensional Fourier transformation in time and position on the outputs of the array. Each of the outputs of the compressive receiver (18) is fed to input ports of several processing units (24), which multiply them by an appropriate time-dependent function. The resultant modified signals are then processed by Butler matrices (30) that together have a matrix of output ports (32). Each output port is associated with a different combination of azimuth and elevation angles. A signal source at given azimuth and elevation angles with respect to the array (12) causes its greatest response in the output port (32) associated with those angles.