583results about "Radio wave finder details" patented technology

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle integrated defense system and a method. The unmanned aerial vehicle integrated defense system comprises a reconnaissance equipment unit, an interference equipment unit and a control unit, and is characterized in that the reconnaissance equipment unit integrates a radar reconnaissance technology, a photoelectric reconnaissance technology and a radio reconnaissance technology to carry out monitoring on a designated area so as to recognize an unmanned aerial vehicle and acquire movement and position information and instruction and image transmission information of the unmanned aerial vehicle and azimuth information of a manipulator of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and the control unit realizes interference for instruction signals, navigation signals and image transmission signals of the unmanned aerial vehicle through the interference equipment unit according to the acquired information. The unmanned aerial vehicle integrated defense system increases electronic reconnaissance on the basis of integrating the radar, photoelectric / infrared reconnaissance and electronic interference technologies so as to carry out reconnaissance analysis on wireless signals of the unmanned aerial vehicle, is applied to guidance interference, and improves the interference effectiveness and the efficiency; and meanwhile, the unmanned aerial vehicle integrated defense system can carry out remote positioning on the manipulator of the unmanned aerial vehicle, provides capture guidance for a law-enforcing department while realizing unmanned aerial vehicle defense, and improves the crime committing cost of unmanned aerial vehicle crime committing.

The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods to utilize relative timing offset information reported by one or more mobile devices. When coupled with AGPS information reported by one or more mobile devices, the offset information is be used to calibrate calculations and subsequently to locate all 3G mobiles with GPS-like accuracy, whether or not a GPS receiver is available on said mobile device being located. A determination of a propagation delay between one or more cell sites and a mobile device is reported to a network and used to calibrate unknown information such as a timing offset, to improve the accuracy of a detected location. The relative timing offset can be applied to determine a location for all other mobile devices within the area served by the known base station. The present disclosure utilizes this method in conjunction with information crowd-sourced from a plurality of mobile devices.

A model construction module (MCM) for constructing a probabilistic model (PM) of a wireless environment (RN) in which a target device (T) communicates using signals that have a measurable signal value (x), such as signal strength. The model construction module forms several submodels (611-631) of the wireless environment (RN). Each submodel indicates a probability distribution (F1-F3) for signal values at one or more locations (Q1-QY) in the wireless environment. The module combines the submodels to a probabilistic model (PM) of the wireless environment (RN), such that the probabilistic model indicates a probability distribution for signal values at several locations in the wireless environment. Alternatively, the model may insert new locations to a single model based on a combination of existing locations. The combination of submodels or existing locations comprises combining the inverse cumulative distribution functions of the submodels or existing locations.

An apparatus and method for locating a remote station operating in analog mode, and that may not have a sense of network time, using an inverted GPS approach. The invention also enables remote stations operating in analog mode that do not know true GPS time to determine their own location. A time stamp, reflecting the approximate time a satellite range measurement is made, is assigned to the measurement at either the remote station or elsewhere in the network. The difference between true GPS network time and the measurement time is treated as a variable "error" in measurement, the length of which is unknown. This variable error is determined and used in determining the physical location of the remote station.

The invention discloses a method for matrix element distance optimization and frequency domain multi target frequency and direction measurement of wideband phased arrays, for realizing the direction measurement of multiple targets having narrow band coherence and irrelevance of a wideband receiver, resolving the contradiction between the direction measurement resolution and unambiguous direction measurement of sparse array, and realizing more accurate target detection under a certain channel error. The method comprises the steps of: first using uneven array, using genetic algorism to optimize the distance of array elements to satisfy the higher direction measurement resolution and high direction measurement accuracy of spatial unambiguous condition; based on the optimized array, realizing the frequency domain multi target frequency and direction measurement algorism as a DOA evaluation algorism which processes frequency domain accumulation, frequency domain check and frequency measurement for the data of each array element channel and realizes frequency automatic match. The algorism adopts array optimization, frequency domain peak snapshot frequency and direction measurement joint algorism. The invention can be applied for the multi narrow band target accurate frequency and direction measurement of wideband receivers in the airborne and satellite-borne electronic reconnaissance.

The invention discloses an estimation method of a co-prime array DOA (Direction Of Arrival) angle based on sparse reconstruction, and mainly solves the problems that a prior art is higher in operand, less in identification information source amount and large in passive location evaluated error, and needs more priori knowledge. The method comprises the realizing steps of forming a co-prime array by an antenna receiver; obtaining observation data to spatial signal sampling; receiving data vectors by a virtual array element obtained by observation data; dividing spatial grids to form over-complete bases; receiving a spare relationship between the data vectors and the over-complete bases by the virtual array element to build a spare restraint equation; resolving the spare restraint equation by adopting a convex optimization method to obtain sparest resolution; drawing a magnitude spectrogram by a relative relationship between the sparest resolution and the spatial angle to obtain a DOA angle value. According to the method provided by the invention, the passive direction-finding precision and operating speed can be improved under a condition of low priori knowledge, the number of the recognized information source can be improved, and the estimation precision of a signal direction angle can be improved in a low signal to noise ratio, therefore the estimation method can be used for target reconnaissance and passive location.

The invention discloses a phased array digital multi-beam generator for electronic reconnaissance, for the high resolution direction measurement having strong and weak signals or coherent multi signals, and forming the multi-target signal into anti-interference digital multi-beam to form a multi-beam process: first, in a data acquisition pretreatment board, an AD samples intermediate frequency analogue real signals output by each array antenna receiver, a DPS and a FPGA chip are cooperated to complete quadrate sampling and amplitude phase error correction; the intermediate frequency analogue actual signals are converted into a baseband digital complex signal and the amplitude phase error between the multi channels is corrected; a LVDS channel transmits the baseband digital complex signal to a signal processing board, the DPS completes the high resolution direction measurement having strong and weak signals or coherent multi signals and calculates the weight value group formed by the adaptive beam; the weight value group is added into the wave beam in the signal processing board FPGA to form a network; completing forming anti-interference digital multi-beam of the multi-target signal; an up frequency converter converts the output of the anti-interference digital multi-beam into needed intermediate frequency analogue signal.

Direction findings by radio comprises arraigning an array of antennas, to receive signals from emitters, selecting individual antenna signals using a first multipole switch and determining, antenna signal strengths. Individual antenna signals are also selected by mutipole switch, which routes a selected signal to a third multipole switch. The third switch switches a phase shifter into and out of an antenna signal path. An adder is employed to add an antenna signal in a first signal path extending via the first multipole switch to a different antenna signal in a second signal path extending via the second and third switches. This determines combined signal strengths between pairs of antenna signals, one of which either has or has not been relatively phase shifted depending on the third switch position. Covariance matrix elements are determined from signal strengths enabling emitter bearings to be derived.

The invention relates to a direction-of-arrival estimation method on the basis of a uniform circular array, in particular to a direction-of-arrival estimation method for independent signals and coherent signals on the basis of the uniform circular array. The direction-of-arrival estimation method on the basis of the uniform circular array includes: preprocessing estimation parameters of direction-of-arrival; removing noise of pattern space; increasing aperture of the array and performing direction-of-arrival estimation to independent signals; and eliminating independent signals and performing direction-of-arrival estimation to coherent signals. The direction-of-arrival estimation method has higher estimation precision, the aperture of the array can be utilized more sufficiently, the loss of the aperture of the array due to array transformation of a virtual array is recovered, estimation performance can be improved further, calculation is simple and calculation quantity is low.

Techniques for accurate position location and tracking suitable for a wide range of facilities in variable environments are disclosed. In one aspect, a system for position location comprises a plurality of sensors (e.g. a network monitor, an environment sensor) for generating measurements of a plurality of sources, a plurality of objects or tags, each object generating measurements of the plurality of sources, and a processor for receiving the measurements and generating a position location for one or more objects in accordance with the received measurements. In another aspect, a position engine comprises a mapped space of a physical environment, and a processor for updating the mapped space in response to received measurements. The position engine may receive second measurements from an object within the physical environment, and generate a position location estimate for the object from the received second measurements and the mapped space.

An improved rescue device for locating persons buried by avalanches operates in either a transmit mode or a receive mode. A first belt terminator is lockably engagable with a first belt terminator receptor on a case, and is associated with a power switch. The power switch switches between a power on position and a power off position in response to the engagement and disengagement of the first belt terminator with the first belt terminator receptor, and preferably is also independently manually operable. A second belt terminator is lockably engagable with a second belt terminator receptor on the case, and is associated with a mode switch. The mode switch toggles between a transmit mode position and a receive mode position, and preferably is also independently manually operable. A signal processing system generates a visual display which provides graphic information to expedite searching. Prompt icons are displayed when a coarse search or a pin-point search should be conducted, when the stage of a multistage amplifier should be changed, or when the rescue device needs to be reoriented to obtain maximum signal strength. Preferably, the signal processing system also displays the signal strength as a bar graph and displays an estimated distance to the buried transmitter.

Embodiments include a method to suppress side lobes of a main antenna by creating cancellation directions using a Side Lobe Canceller (SLC). Various embodiments also provide the Side Lobe Canceller.

The invention discloses a CPU (Central Processing Unit) realizing method based on amplitude-comparison direction finding of a multi-frequency point omnibearing passive radar. A CPU and GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) heterogeneous hardware platform is adopted; a processing module with strong parallelism and the processing module with strong logicality are respectively realized on the GPU and the CPU; the platform is simple and high in use ratio; a system is simple in operation and strong in flexibility when being expanded; the coagulation and the angle measurement are carried out in the CPU; specifically, a coagulating-while-comparing amplitude angle measuring method is adopted; trace point coagulation is combined with amplitude-comparison angle measurement, so that the time for recombining the data after coagulation is omitted; the coagulation and angle measurement processes are embedded in multithreading, so that the time is further saved; and a target point containing the angle information is transferred to a terminal display control platform. According to the CPU realizing method provided by the invention, the problems that a target positioning effect of a single-frequency passive radar detecting system is inferior, the multi-frequency precision is high but the calculated quantity is large and the consumed time is long are solved. The CPU realizing method has the advantages of high processing speed, high angle measuring precision, and wide angle measuring scope, and can be applied to the target detection and positioning for the passive radar.

The invention discloses a fast sparse Bayesian learning based direction-of-arrival estimation method and mainly solves the problems of heavy computation and large location estimation error in the prior art. The method includes the implementation steps: (1) adopting antenna receivers to form a uniform linear array; (2) sampling space signals and computing an array covariance matrix R; (3) vectorizing R to obtain a sparse model vector y; (4) dividing space domain grids, and constructing an over-complete base phi(theta) according to the structure of the sparse model vector y; (5) establishing a sparse equation according to the sparse representation relation of the sparse model vector and the over-complete base; (6) defining a hyper-parameter vector alpha, and adopting a fast sparse Bayesian learning algorithm to solve the sparse equation; (7) drawing a magnitude spectrogram according to an optimal estimation value of alpha to obtain a direction-of-arrival value. By the method, estimation accuracy of target reconnaissance and passive location under the conditions of low signal to noise ratio and small snapshot number is improved, computational complexity is lowed, and the method can be applied to target reconnaissance and passive location.

The invention provides a distributed source center direction-of-arrival estimation method based on Bayesian compressed perception, and belongs to the technical field of wireless mobile communication. The invention mainly aims to solve the problem concerning inherent error of center direction-of-arrival estimation when the center angle of arrival of an information source is not on an angle sampling grid. According to the invention, an antenna array composed of parallel uniform linear arrays is arranged; an approximate array data reception model of a distribution source is established; the space-domain angle is sampled; a parameterized over-complete redundant dictionary is constructed by using an array steering vector so as to make the problem of distributed source center direction-of-arrival estimation converted into the problem of sparse matrix equation solving; a Bayesian compressed perception method is adopted to solve the equation set and obtain the most sparse solution of an unknown sparse vector; and the estimated value of the center direction of arrival is obtained according to the one-to-one correspondence relationship between sparse solutions and space-domain angles. The method of the invention is low in computing complexity, and has the characteristics of high resolution and accuracy under the condition of a small number of snapshots.

A detection device is described configured for receiving radar and laser signals. The detection device is a self contained stand alone assembly having a watch like configuration and positionable on an arm of a vehicular driver such as a motorcyclist. The detection device is a warning receiver configured to receive signals, identify the signals as being in frequency bands for vehicular speed measuring systems used in law enforcement, and providing a warning to the vehicular driver. In addition, the detection device is configured for calculating the angle and distance from the detection device to the source of the speed measuring system.

The invention belongs to the technical field of communication radars, and provides a circular array phase position interferometer broadband instantaneous direction finding method based on a table lookup method. The circular array phase position interferometer broadband instantaneous direction finding method based on the table lookup method specifically includes the following steps: building a lookup table, traversing all phase differences in a range of (-pi, pi] at an interval of 2pi / (2L-1), and constructing a phase difference combination; performing ambiguity resolution calculation on all the phase differences so as to obtain a phase ambiguity number; constructing tabular value, and building another lookup table; obtaining measuring value of the phase differences through phase demodulation system measurement, performing table lookup and calculation so as to obtain corresponding tabular value and resolving the corresponding tabular value into a corresponding ambiguity number, and calculating a true phase difference; calculating a pitch angle and an azimuth angle of a wave incoming direction according to the wavelength output by a frequency system and the true phase difference. The circular array phase position interferometer broadband instantaneous direction finding method based on the table lookup method uses the table lookup method to solve ambiguity, avoids tedious calculation of formula ambiguity resolution, greatly shortens direction finding time, can shorten the direction finding time from ten milliseconds into hundred nanoseconds, and adapts to real time application.

The invention discloses a single-snapshot data-based coherent signal DOA estimating method and relates to the technical field of array antenna systems or methods capable of indicating different signal directions. The method comprises rearranging the single-snapshot received data of an array to obtain two pseudo-covariance matrixes, and then through two pseudo-covariance matrixes, expanding the covariance matrix of a subspace restructuring algorithm; performing singular value decomposition on the new pseudo-covariance matrixes to obtain a signal subspace and a noise subspace, and performing DOA estimation on incoming coherent wave signals through a MUSIC spectrum estimating method. The single-snapshot data-based coherent signal DOA estimating method can eliminate coherence among source signals under single-snapshot conditions and meanwhile further improve the DOA estimating precision. The single-snapshot data-based coherent signal DOA estimating method is mainly applied to rapid estimation of incoming directions of coherent signals under the single-snapshot conditions.

This invention relates to a method for testing directions of coherent signal sources under non-stable noise background including: collecting data received by channels and storing them in an EMS memory of the system, making adaptive uniform process to data received by the channels to form an array covariance matrix, utilizing a forward space smooth technology to preprocess it smoothly to constitute a forward space smooth covariance matrix and utilizing a forward and backward space smooth technology to smoothly pre-process the matrix to constitute a generalized covariance matrix based on the covariance matrix and a conjugated matrix and carrying out spectrum estimation to the generalized matrix with a sub-space class algorithm to identify a real incident direction of image false peak and signal source and output the real direction of the estimated signal source.

A modularization phase coherent multichannel signal generating device based on PXI bus, relates to the measuring and testing technique field. A main control computer is connected with the system bus through system interfaces; the system bus is respectively connected with a clock generating and distribution device, a local oscillation signal source and N vector modulation channels through signal wires; the clock generating and distribution device and the local oscillation signal source respectively provide clock signals to each other through two signal wires; the clock generating and distribution device respectively provides clock signals and trigger signals to N vector modulation channels, and provides externally a clock extension interface and a triggering extension interface, through 2N+2 signal wires; the local oscillation signal source is connected with a local oscillation power divider; the local oscillation power divider is connected with N vector modulation channels, and externally provides a channel extension interface, through N+1 signal wires; each vector modulation channel externally provides a coherent signal output interface. The invention has advantages of wide phase adjustment scope, small volume, light weight, high system flexibility and low cost.

An arrival angle estimation system includes a transmitting device and a receiving device and estimates an arrival angle at which frames transmitted by radio from the transmitting device arrive at the receiving device. The transmitting device includes two directional antennas each arranged so that its directivity is tilted at ±θ degrees with respect to the front of the transmitting device. The receiving device includes a directional antenna having directivity toward the front of the receiving device. Frames are transmitted alternately from the respective directional antennas of the transmitting device, and received signal strengths of the frames on the receiving device side for the respective transmitting directional antennas are compared with each other to estimate the arrival angle.

Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an artificial intelligence algorithm. The detection engine and classification engine are trained to detect and classify signals from unmanned vehicles and their controllers based on processed data from the signal processing engine. The direction finding engine is operable to provide lines of bearing for detected unmanned vehicles.

A method of providing information regarding the location of a mobile user equipment (1) in a system wherein the location is determined based on information signalled from entities (10) of a positioning system and assistance data signalled from a station (5) of a communication system. In the method the likely location of the mobile user equipment relative to the station is first determined. Based on the determined likely location, an estimate of the delay in transmitting a signal from the station to the mobile user equipment is estimated. Assistance data is then signalled from the station to the mobile user equipment, said assistance data comprising information about the timing of the positioning system. A more accurate location determination is accomplished at the user equipment based on signals from the entities of the positioning system, the assistance data and said estimated delay.

A system for finding the instantaneous spatial azimuth and elevation of a source of radio signals employing phase digitizers to measure the phase of arrival of a radio signal on an array of antennas. The phase digitizers providing digital indication of the phase of arrival, enable the determination of the azimuth, and elevetion of a source of radio signal, utilizing simple digital subtraction methods.

The invention discloses a joint estimation method for an azimuth angle and an elevation angle of a signal on the basis of an L-type sensor array. The joint estimation method is used for estimating a direction of arrival of an incidence signal emitted onto the L-type sensor array, wherein the L-type sensor array is placed on an x-z plane and is provided with two mutually vertical uniform linear arrays, and M omnidirectional sensors are equidistantly arranged in different spatial positions along a straight line on each of the uniform linear arrays. The joint estimation method is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) estimating a covariance matrix of signals received by two rows of uniform linear arrays on x axis and z axis, and then obtaining an M*2M expanding cross covariance matrix by calculating according to the covariance matrix of the signals received by the two rows of uniform linear arrays; (2) cutting the uniform linear array on the z axis or x axis into two rows of non-coincident forward / backward sub-arrays, and then estimating the elevation angle by utilizing the expanding cross covariance matrix of data received by the two rows of uniform linear arrays according to a linear operation one-dimensional subspace method; and (3) estimating a corresponding azimuth angle by linearly operating by utilizing feasible regions of the azimuth angle and the elevation angle, the two rows of sub-arrays on the z axis or x axis and the cross covariance between one of the sub-array and the uniform linear array on the x axis or z axis.

The invention discloses a rapid two-dimensional spectral-peak searching method suitable for engineering realization. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, carrying out two-dimensional global search for a spatial spectrogram composed of a noise subspace and antenna array flow pattern vectors, and obtaining global search spectral-peak points; 2, carrying out fine search near the global search spectral-peak points, and obtaining spectral-peak candidate points; 3, classifying the spectral-peak candidate points, and finding real spectral-peak points corresponding to the number of signals; and 4, and utilizing false spectral peak information around a real spectral peak, and finally using a weighted value of the real spectral peak and false spectral peaks around the real spectral peak as an estimated value of an incoming wave direction. Aiming at using a 2D-MUSIC algorithm to estimate the direction of arrival of incident signals, a two-dimensional spectral-peak searching process occupies most of the time of the whole algorithm so as not to obtain the direction of arrival of the signals in real time or on time. According to the method disclosed by the invention, on the basis of characteristic analysis of the spatial spectrogram, a data cluster and grading searching method is used to accelerate the spectral-peak searching process and the precision of search results are ensured.