795 results about "Phase center" patented technology

A method for operating a communications system is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of signals at a plurality of antenna elements, the plurality of signals arriving at the array of antenna elements at a plurality of angles of arrival (AOAs) with respect to a reference location. The method also includes calculating a plurality of differential distance vectors between the plurality of antenna elements and the reference location, each of the plurality of differential distance vectors associated with one of the plurality of AOAs and at least one of the pluralities of signals. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of actual phase center locations for the plurality of antenna elements based on the plurality of differential distance vectors and the plurality of AOAs and providing a correction to configuration data for the array of antenna elements based at least on the plurality of actual phase center locations.

The present invention relates to an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception source for a multireflector antenna of the Cassegrain type comprising longitudinal-radiation means operating in a first frequency band and an array of n radiating elements of the travelling-wave type operating in a second frequency band with the n radiating elements arranged symmetrically around the longitudinal-radiation means, the array and the longitudinal-radiation means having an approximately common phase centre, the array of n radiating elements being excited by a waveguide of polygonal cross section. The invention applies especially in satellite communication systems operating in the C-, Ku- or Ka-bands.

A stepped reflector for being illuminated by at least one multiple-band feed is provided. The reflector includes a central region and a first annular region with an annular width of w. The first annular region is axially stepped a height h above the central region, where h is approximately equal to

where m is a positive odd integer, Φ is a desired amount of phase shift of an outer region of a phase front for reflecting off of the reflector, φ is a feed phase contribution for an angle Θ, and Θ₀ is an angle formed between an axis of the at least one feed and a line connecting a phase center of the at least one feed and an inner edge of the at least one annular region.

The central region and the annular region of the reflector may be parabolically curved or may alternately be shaped. The reflector may be fed by one or more multiple-band horn antennas.

The dual synthetic aperture array system processes returns from the receiving arrays. The two identical receiving arrays employing displaced phase center antenna techniques subtract the corresponding spectrally processed data to cancel clutter. It is further processed that a moving target is detected and its velocity, angular position and range is measured, in or out of the presence of clutter. There are many techniques presented in the disclosure. These techniques are basically independent but are related based on common set of fundamental set of mathematical equations, understanding of radar principles and the implementations involved. These many techniques may be employed singly and/or in combination depending on the application and accuracy required. They are supported by a system that includes, optimization of the number of apertures, pulse repetition frequencies, DPCA techniques to cancel clutter, adaptive techniques to cancel clutter, motion compensation, weighting function for clutter and target, and controlling the system in most optimum fashion to attain the objective of the disclosure.</PTEXT>

A rover processor determines position of a rover based upon the interaction between multiple antennas located at the rover and multiple antennas located at a base. The rover antennas may include a rover master antenna having a phase center located at the centroid of the antennas patterns of at least two auxiliary rover antennas. The rover processor may determine the position of the rover master antenna based upon the relative positions of at least two rover antennas (e.g., the rover master antenna and at least one rover auxiliary antenna, or at least two rover auxiliary antennas) with respect to at least two antennas of a base transceiver.

The present invention relates to a method of generating two beams, having orthogonal polarizations, covering a selected area using an antenna (20) comprising multiple dual-polarized array elements (11). Each dual-polarized array element having a first phase centre (18) associated with a first polarization and a second phase centre (18) associated with a second polarization. The method comprises: designing a first weight matrix having a first non-zero weight vector for the first polarization and a second non-zero weight vector for the second polarization, calculating a second weight matrix based on the weight vectors of the first weight matrix, and applying the first and second weight matrix to the dual-polarized array elements to generate a second beam covering the selected area.

The present invention relates to an antenna comprising multiple array elements with a first and second feeding point, each associated with orthogonal polarizations, each array element has a first and second phase centre each associated with the orthogonal polarizations, the first and second phase centres of said array elements are arranged in at least two columns, and one antenna port connected to the first and second feeding points of at least two array elements with first phase centre and second phase centre arranged in the at least two columns via a respective feeding network. The feeding network comprises a beam forming network having a primary connection, connected to the antenna port, and at least four secondary connections. The beam forming network divides power between the first feeding point and the second feeding point and controls phase shift differences between the respective feeding points with phase centre arranged in different columns.

The invention provides a method for constructing a thinned MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) planar array radar antenna, which is on the basis of a phase center approximation principle and combines an MIMO antenna thought. The antenna arrangement optimal design is carried out by adopting the MIMO antenna thought. When all transmitting array elements simultaneously (or in turns) transmit orthogonal signals and receiving array elements simultaneously receive echo signals, a virtual planar array with uniform intervals is subjected to equivalence processing by utilizing the phase center approximation principle. According to the thinned MIMO planar array radar antenna constructed according to the invention, few transmitting antenna array elements and few receiving antenna array elements can be adopted and the equivalent full-array-element arrangement planar antenna array is virtually realized. Compared with the planar array antenna which is the same size as the equivalent virtual planar array and is directly arranged, the thinned MIMO planar array radar antenna constructed according to the method disclosed by the invention has the advantage of greatly reducing the requirement on the number of the array elements.

A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver system includes a processing unit; and one or more antenna units for receiving GNSS signals, each of the antenna units having a phase center; one or more inertial sensor units each positioned substantially adjacent said phase centers; and at least one communication channel between each antenna unit and said processing unit.

The invention discloses an automatic measuring system in the center of an antenna phase, which comprises an antenna receiving rotary table subsystem, an emission polarizer subsystem, an emission and reception subsystem, a servo drive digital display subsystem and a computer subsystem. The antenna receiving rotary table subsystem and the emission polarizer subsystem are both connected with the emission and reception subsystem, the servo drive digital display subsystem and the computer subsystem; wherein, the antenna receiving rotary table subsystem consists of a direction rotary table (1), a two-dimensional translation device (2), a bracket (3) and an antenna polarizer (4). The two-dimensional translation device (2) is positioned between the direction rotary table (1) and the antenna polarizer (4) and used for automatically adjusting the positions of an antenna and the rotating axis of the direction rotary table, thereby making the phase center of the antenna near the axle center of the rotary table and ensuring the stable positions of the rotating axis of the direction rotary table and the rotating axis of the antenna polarizer when the direction rotary table is rotating. The automatic measuring system provided by the invention has the advantage of high measuring automation and can be used to accurately mark the phase centers of antennas.

A repeater diversity system includes a null antenna having a given phase center and polarization for receiving a communications signal from a remote signal source, a donor antenna for transmitting a signal to a base station, and a diversity null antenna having the same phase center as the receive null antenna and a polarization orthogonal to the polarization of the main null antenna. A combining network is coupled to the main null antenna and the diversity null antenna for combining the signals therefrom and an uplink channel module is coupled with the combining network for delivering diversity combined receive signals to the donor antenna.

A MIMO radar device for the decoupled determination of an elevation angle and azimuth angle of an object. The MIMO radar device includes an antenna array including multiple transmitting antennas, whose phase centers are situated spaced apart from one another along a first coordinate direction; and multiple receiving antennas, whose phase centers are situated spaced apart from one another along the first coordinate direction; the phase center of at least one of the transmitting antennas being spaced apart from the phase centers of the remaining transmitting antennas by an offset value along a second coordinate direction; the phase center of at least one of the receiving antennas being spaced apart from the phase centers of the remaining transmitting antennas by the offset value along the second coordinate direction; an evaluation unit to evaluate electromagnetic signals for the decoupled determination of the elevation angle and the azimuth angle of the object.

The invention discloses a method for measuring the phase center of an antenna, which is based on moving reference points. The method provided by the invention mainly solves the measuring problems of manual operation and artificial judgment. The method includes the following steps: in the measuring system, a measured antenna is adjusted to face an original antenna and is taken as the zero point of a measuring angle; the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of a two-dimensional translation device are controlled to reset and taken as the datum reference point of the phase center test; related parameter information is input and all moving shafts are controlled automatically, thereby collecting the amplitude and phase data of the measured antenna; the horizontal deviation and the longitudinal deviation of the phase center can be worked out by using the least square method and then can be determined whether the deviation of the phase center meets the deviation requirements of the designed phase center of the antenna; if not, the reference point of the antenna can be changed by automatically adjusting the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate of the two-dimensional translation device according to the deviation value; the test can be repeated again and again until the horizontal deviation and the longitudinal deviation meet the requirements; and the final changed reference point can be taken as the phase center of the measured antenna. The method provided by the invention can automatically and accurately measure the phase center of an antenna.

An adaptive antenna array has array elements arranged in element rows and element columns and subarrays arranged in subarray rows and subarray columns, for which the subarray phase centers have non-uniform spacing. The adaptive antenna array provides good detection and tracking performance when used in a radar system, while being inexpensive and easy to manufacture. A radar system and a method of adapting a radar array both employ the above described adaptive antenna array.

The invention discloses a Beidou three-frequency non-differential non-combined observation value time transmission system and method. The method includes the steps that phase observation value, pseudo-range observation value, satellite ephemeris, earth rotation, antenna phase center and other parameters of China Beidou satellite navigation systems at two time transmission stations are obtained; data check, gross error reject and cycle slip detection are carried out, error models of ephemeris, tide, relativity, the earth rotation, atmosphere and antenna phase deviation are corrected; an ionospheric virtual observation model with additional ionospheric prior information constraints, spatial domain constraints and time domain constraints is constructed; and a three-frequency non-differentialnon-combinatorial precise single-point positioning model is constructed, a single-point positioning timing solution is carried out on corrected data, and comprehensive clock corrections of receivers of the two transmission time stations are obtained and compared to obtain a time transmission difference; and compared with standard time of one of the two transmission time stations, precise time of the other one of the two transmission time stations is obtained. According to the Beidou three-frequency non-differential non-combined observation value time transmission system and method, the observation noise can be reduced, and the accuracy and reliability of time transmission are improved.

The present disclosure is directed to a dual polarized antenna array including a first BAVA (a horizontal polarization input), a second BAVA (a vertical polarization input), and a cradle assembly. The substrates of the first and second BAVAs each include a notched portion. The cradle assembly includes a base plate having four channel modules connected thereto. Edge portions of the substrates of the first and second BAVAs are received by the cradle assembly via channels of the channel modules and apertures of the base plate. The substrates of the BAVAs are interleaved via their notched portions so that the substrate of the second BAVA is an orthogonal orientation relative to the substrate of the first BAVA.

The invention provides a simulation method for a linear frequency modulation continuous wave synthetic aperture radar video signal, which comprises the following steps: simulated synthetic aperture radar system parameter information is set and read; the information parameter of a target is set; a simulated time is treated with discretization; the instantaneous positions of a radar platform and the target are respectively calculated, and a distance vector between a phase center and the target is obtained according to geometric position relation; a one-dimension echo signal is obtained by combining the echo signal mathematic model of the synthetic aperture radar and radar system parameters; the one-dimension signal is divided according to pulse repetition period and formatted into a two-dimension signal, the two-dimension signal with Na multiplied by Nr is obtained after the total data is stored, thus finishing the fine simulation of the linear frequency modulation continuous wave synthetic aperture radar video signal. The more accurate echo simulation signal can be obtained by utilizing the simulation method, and the simulation method is especially suitable for a frequency modulation continuous wave signal with high-speed movement, long distance and severe oblique observation condition of the radar and has more excellent realization efficiency, and stronger adaptability and compatibility.

An embodiment of the invention provides a method for calibrating a phase center of a receiver antenna and an apparatus thereof. The method comprises the following steps: measuring and obtaining far field phase directional diagram data of a receiver antenna and taking the far field phase directional diagram data as input test data; establishing mathematical models of Phrase Center Offset (PCO) andPhase Center Variation (PCV) of the receiver antenna by utilizing the input test data; exporting PCO and PCV value calculation models of the antenna by utilizing a least square method, and carrying out numerical solution on the PCO and PCV value calculation models by utilizing a linear equation group solution or polynomial fitting regression analysis method to obtain PCO and PCV values of the antenna. According to the embodiment of the invention, absolute positioning (phase) of PCO and PCV of the receiver antenna can be obtained, and a measurement error brought by antenna phase center change can be accurately corrected to raise measurement precision of a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver.

The invention relates to a double frequency feed source, which is applied to a ring-focus double-reflector antenna and works in S and X frequency bands. The S/X double frequency feed source adopts a way that a coaxial horn is nested, S frequency band is a coaxial horn, X frequency band is a five-section variable field angle multimode horn and is taken as an inner conductor of the S frequency bandcoaxial horn. By applying the double frequency feed source provided by the invention, the problems of wave beam equalization and impedance matching of the coaxial horn under a heavy calibre conditionare creatively solved, the double frequency feed source has the same illumination taper in the S frequency band and the X frequency band, the illumination taper at the temperature of 40 DEG C is minus 10dB to minus 13dB, an almost straight phase center is located in the two frequency bands, and efficiencies in the S frequency band and the X frequency band respectively reach up to 45% and 65%, thus the double frequency feed source provided by the invention is a high-efficiency double frequency feed source.

A method for obtaining an adaptive angle-Doppler ambiguity function (AF) for a target using multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar that includes a transmit antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The method includes generating transmit signals for transmission by the transmit antenna array, the transmit signals defining at least a first transmit trajectory of a phase center within the transmit antenna array; transmitting the transmit signals using the transmit antenna array and receiving receive signals from the target, the receive signals resulting from the incidence of the transmit signals upon the target; and obtaining at least an angle-Doppler ambiguity function (AF) from the receive signals. The first transmit trajectory is such that, in operation, the phase center undergoes random phase center motion (PCM), such that a phase center position within the transmit antenna array varies randomly with time. A system for obtaining an AF is also disclosed.