109results about "Direction finders using electromagnetic waves" patented technology

An optically based location system and method of determining a location at a structure include a lighting infrastructure having lights at a structure. Each light is configured to illuminate and to transmit a respective relative or absolute terrestrial position through modulation of emitted light. An optical receiver is configured to detect the lights, to demodulate the position of detected lights, and to determine from the detection a position of the receiver. The receiver can have a conventional optical detector for determining a two-dimensional position of the receiver relative to a detected light, or can have a three-dimensional spot collimating lens and charged couple device optical detector for determining a three-dimensional position of the receiver relative to a detected light. The receiver and lights can be synchronized for converting a delay time into a distance measurement to calculate a distance between a light and the receiver.

An object sensing apparatus for driver assistance systems in motor vehicles, including at least two sensor systems which measure data concerning the location and/or motion status of objects in the vicinity of the vehicle, and whose detection regions overlap one another, characterized by an error recognition device that checks the data measured by the sensor systems for absence of contradictions, and outputs an error signal upon detection of a contradiction.

Photoelectric power generation system being able to follow sun autoamtically belongs to technical area of solar utilization. The system mainly composed of array of solar battery aid its mounting rack, mechanical transmission mechanism, tracking control circuit, sensor for sunlight orientation and resetting control equipment of wine proofing. The sensor for sunlight orientation includes condensinglens, sunlight signal receiver of fine and coarse adjustment. The sunlight signal receiver of fine adjustment includes light-sensitive surfaces in 4 orientations located on end face of base seat. Thesunlight signal receiver of coarse adjustment includes light-sensitive surfaces in 4 orientations located on perisporium of case. The condensing lens is fixed on top end of the case.

A direct beam solar lighting system for collecting and distributing sunlight into a room. The system includes a rotatable solar collector head to receive sunlight and to reflect the sunlight downward into a transition tube having a reflective interior surface. The light-concentrating transition tube reflects sunlight into a reflective light tube which directs the reflected sunlight through a plenum space into the room. The system includes a drive mechanism for rotating the rotatable solar collector, and a light fixture at end of the light tube to disburse said reflected sunlight onto a ceiling and a wall in the room. In an embodiment the system includes one or more homogenizing reflectors within the solar collector for collecting the sunlight and directing the sunlight more uniformly over the aperture of the transition tube. In an alternative embodiment, the solar collector includes a rotatable tiltable mirror for providing two-axis tracking.

The invention discloses a method and system for tracking a position of a matched gamepad of a VR (virtual reality) head-mounted device, the matched gamepad of the VR head-mounted device, the matched VR head-mounted device of the gamepad and a VR device. The method includes arranging an infrared light source on a gamepad shell, arranging a binocular infrared camera for shooting the infrared light source on the VR head-mounted device, and measuring spatial attitudes of the gamepad and the VR head-mounted device; computing a related position relation of the gamepad and the VR head-mounted device according to spatial attitude information of the gamepad, spatial attitude information of the VR head-mounted device and image information shot by the binocular infrared camera; determining the spatial position of the gamepad according to the spatial position of the VR head-mounted device and the related position relation of the gamepad and the VR head-mounted device.

The invention discloses a Zigbee networks visible light positioning wireless charging system and a method. The system includes a wireless charging device and a Zigbee network node; the wireless charging device and the Zigbee network node communicate with each other through a Zigbee protocol; the wireless charging device includes a wireless charging module and a light source detection module; and the Zigbee network node comprises a gateway node, a coordinator and a terminal node, wherein the coordinator is used for coordinating the communication between the gateway node and the terminal node. As for a situation that wireless charging does not require accurate positioning, the invention provides a simple and convenient visible light positioning scheme. The visible light positioning scheme has the advantages of high positioning efficiency and simple computation, and can greatly improve wireless charging efficiency.

The invention discloses a two-dimensional MUSIC (multiple signal classification) direction-detecting device for a uniform circular array, which comprises an FPGA (field programmable gate array) processing unit and a DSP (digital signal processor) processing unit, wherein the DSP processing unit is used for receiving a covariance matrix containing target azimuth information sent by the FPGA processing unit, utilizing a two-dimensional MUSIC algorithm to obtain the target azimuth information and sending the target azimuth information to the FPGA processing unit, and the FPGA processing unit is used for performing filtering noise-removing treatment on a signal received by an external antenna, and then calculating the covariance matrix containing the target azimuth information and storing the azimuth information calculated by DSP. According to the device, the two-dimensional MUSIC algorithm serves as a method for estimating the target azimuth, the calculating complexity in each step is reduced as much as possible, and the real-time direction-detecting capacity of the device is higher than that of the traditional device.

A luminaire locating device may be used to automatically determine positions of luminaires of a lighting system. The luminaire locating device may have an interface to receive intensity information captured by a plurality of optical sensors. The luminaire locating device may have an electronic processing device to process the intensity information captured by the plurality of optical sensors to determine the positions of the luminaires.

A measuring device, in particular a handheld measuring device, for the localization of objects enclosed in a medium, including at least one photometric sensor that obtains by way of the at least one photometric sensor a first measurement signal of the object to be examined, so that by evaluation of that measurement signal, information about an object enclosed in the medium is obtained, and at least one further sensor, for generating at least one further second measurement signal for obtaining information about the object enclosed in the medium. A method for the localization, by way of a photometric sensor, of objects enclosed in a medium.

The invention relates to a method and system for discovering and tracking a remote controller of an illegally flying unmanned aerial vehicle. The system is composed of an unmanned aerial vehicle, a direction finding and positioning device, a flight control and communication module, a camera and cradle head and ground equipment, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is a lift-off platform of the whole system; the direction finding and positioning device performs direction finding and positioning on an unmanned aerial vehicle remote control signal; the flight control and communication module controls the whole illegally flying unmanned aerial vehicle system on the one hand, and is used for communicating with the ground equipment on the other hand; the camera and cradle head are used for searching and tracking an illegally flying unmanned aerial vehicle target; and the ground equipment is used for remotely controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle of the own side by a ground user and transmitting and receiving interactive information. The system has a searching state, a positioning state and a tracking state. The system lifts off, recognizes tracks and approaches the illegally flying unmanned aerial vehicle by using an unmanned aerial vehicle platform, and performs continuous direction finding and positioning on the ground remote control signal, thereby achieving a purpose of positioning and tracking the remote controller of the illegally flying unmanned aerial vehicle.

An observation supporting apparatus includes a position specifying section which specifies a coordinate point of a moving object detected in a viewing field through once observation. An orbit estimating section calculates an estimate orbit of the moving object in the viewing field based on the specified coordinate points. Data necessary to estimate the position of the moving object out of the viewing field is acquired using the estimate orbit by the orbit estimating section.

The invention provides a coprime matrix robust adaptive beamforming algorithm based on matrix filling. The coprime matrix robust adaptive beamforming algorithm based on matrix filling comprises the following steps that a sample covariance matrix of received data is calculated; the sample covariance matrix is vectorized to obtain vectors, and then elimination of redundancy and vector rearrangementare carried out on the vectors to obtain the received data vectors of a complete coprime matrix differential optimization matrix; zero is arranged between elements with discontinuous wave range difference in the received data vectors in a filling mode to obtain the vectors, and then the vectors are obtained by taking information of the positive half part of the vectors; the vectors are expanded into a Toplitz matrix; the Toplitz matrix is restored to obtain a filled covariance matrix; spectral peak search is carried out in an interference signal angle region to obtain estimation of arrival angles of each interference signal; the estimated arrival angles of interference signals, the physical array information of a coprime array and an interference and noise covariance matrix which reconstructs a coprime array physical array are utilized; weighted vectors of an adaptive beamformer is calculated by using the estimation of the interference and noise covariance matrix and expected signal steering vectors.

The invention discloses a spatial directional angle measuring system based on all-optical cross polarization modulation. The spatial directional angle measuring system comprises a first mach-zehnder intensity modulator, a polarization controller, a second mach-zehnder intensity modulator, a polarization controller I, an electric coupler, a microwave phase shifter, a polarization controller II, an optical fiber online polarizer, an optical band pass filter, a photoelectric detector, an offset T and a voltmeter, wherein the first mach-zehnder intensity modulator and the polarization controller are connected with a first laser light source; the second mach-zehnder intensity modulator and the polarization controller I are connected with a second laser light source; the electric coupler and the microwave phase shifter are connected with a microwave signal source; the polarization controller III, the optical fiber online polarizer, the optical band pass filter, the photoelectric detector, the offset T and the voltmeter are sequentially connected with the optical coupler. The spatial directional angle measuring system based on all-optical cross polarization modulation can be used for solving the problem of difficulty in quickly identifying antenna signal directional position information in an optically controlled phased array radar, and can be used for realizing primary measurement of an antenna spatial directional angle based on an all-optical cross polarization modulation method.

A cryogenic cooling system (12) for cooling electromagnetic energy detectors (50). The cooling system (12) includes a first mechanism (18) that accommodates cryogen fluid in one or more spaces (58, 60). A second mechanism (16, 42) freezes the cryogen fluid in the one or more spaces (58, 60) adjacent to the electromagnetic energy detectors (50). In a specific embodiment, the electromagnetic energy detectors (50) comprise an infrared focal plane array (50). The second mechanism (16, 42) includes a heat exchanger (16) that is mounted separately from the first mechanism (18). The one or more spaces (58, 60) are fitted with three-dimensional cooling interface surfaces (62, 64). The three-dimensional cooling surfaces (62, 64) are implemented via a thermally conductive matrix (62, 64). The thermally conductive matrix (62, 64) is a copper metal matrix or carbon/graphite matrix, and the solid cryogen reservoir (18) is a beryllium reservoir (18). The solid cryogen reservoir (18) includes integrated mounting features (52, 54) for mounting the reservoir (18) to a missile housing and a surface for attaching the focal plane array (50) to the reservoir (18). The second mechanism (16, 42) includes a Joule-Thomson orifice (42) that employs the Joule-Thomson effect to cool the cryogen fluid to a solid state. The first mechanism (18) includes a selectively detachable cryogen canister that provides pressurized cryogen fluid to the heat exchanger (16). The heat exchanger (16) directs cooled pressurized cryogen fluid to the solid cryogen reservoir (18) and Joule-Thomson orifice (42) and is positioned remotely from the cryogen reservoir (18). In an illustrative embodiment, the heat exchanger (16) outputs cooled cryogen gas to plural solid cryogen reservoirs (18) to cool plural corresponding infrared focal plane arrays (50). A line cutter selectively detaches the gas canister and/or the heat exchanger (16) from the missile in response control signal from a computer. The computer generates the control signal after a predetermined amount of the cryogen fluid is present in the cryogen reservoir (18) or after a predetermined time interval.

Provided are methods and systems for identifying location of light sources from airborne aircraft. Light sources are ground based and may be low power lasers and other like devices. An aircraft equipped with a detecting module, such as a camera of a ground maneuver camera system, may defect light source output and associate this output with the relative position of the aircraft to the light source. This information may be analyzed together with aircraft location information (at the time of light source detection) to generate a light source location estimate. In some embodiments, other information, such as transmission from other aircraft and/or ground based nodes can be used. The estimate may be transmitted to a ground based node, such as a law enforcement unit. The data from multiple aircraft and/or ground based nodes may be aggregated to more precisely identify the light source location.

The invention discloses a compressed sensing theory-based four-dimensional antenna array DOA estimation method. According to the method, a sparse signal model for four-dimensional antenna array DOA estimation is established to find that time sequences have important influences on sparse signal recovery, and an improper time sequence is possible to change time modulated noise into color noise so asto seriously worsen the sparse signal recover ability. Therefore, matrix dependency and a noise covariance matrix are introduced to quantitatively analyze the influences, on sparse signal recovery and noises, of different time sequences; and on such basis, a differential evolution algorithm is utilized to establish a time sequence-oriented optimization model. An I1 norm singular value decomposition-based sparse signal recovery algorithm applied to traditional arrays is extended into four-dimensional antenna arrays and the optimized time sequences are combined to carry out four-dimensional antenna array DOA estimation. Numerical simulation results prove that the method has large advantages in the aspects of resolution characteristic and accuracy characteristic when being compared with other four-dimensional array DOA estimation methods, particularly under the conditions of low signal to noise ratio and small snapshot number.

A system and method for tracking an object receive electronic intelligence (ELINT) track information related to the object and radar track information. A first likelihood that the radar track information is also related to the object is determined at a first time of the ELINT track information and a first time of the radar track information. A second likelihood that the radar track information is also related to the object is determined at a second time of the ELINT track information and a second time of the radar track information. The first likelihood and the second likelihood are processed to determine whether the ELINT track information and the radar track information should be associated as both being related to the object.

The invention discloses a light source direction positioning device, which comprises a spherical main body, a control unit and a plurality of photosensitive sensors, wherein a plurality of grooves areformed in the surface of the spherical main body; each photosensitive sensor is arranged in each of the grooves; the control unit is disposed inside the spherical main body; the control unit is electrically connected with the plurality of photosensitive sensors; the photosensitive sensors are configured to detect a light signal emitted by an external light source, generate a detection signal, andthen send the detection signal to the control unit; and the control unit is configured to acquire a light intensity value detected by each photosensitive sensor according to the detection signal, anddetermine a light source direction of the external light source according to a magnitude of the light intensity value. According to the light source direction positioning device, by the arrangement of the photosensitive sensors on the surface of the spherical main body and then positioning of the direction of illumination of the light source by using the light intensity value detected by the photosensitive sensors, the direction of illumination of the light source in each direction can be positioned.

A method is disclosed for detecting and locating a blast, including muzzle flash, created by the launch of a projectile from a gun barrel, rocket tube or similar device, generally associated with weapons fire. The method is used in conjunction with electro-optical imaging sensors and provides the azimuth and elevation from the detecting sensor to the launch location of the blast and also provides the weapon classification.