587 results about "Signal tracking" patented technology

A personnel accountability and situational awareness monitoring communications system for emergency personnel that comprises wireless network-adaptable monitoring devices, peripherals and base station console software for telemetry monitoring of real-time information at a plurality of personnel accountability and situational awareness parameters of critical data about the safety, health and whereabouts of first responders deployed in typically hazardous environments. Exterior incident command, including fire, rescue, safety and other emergency agencies achieve real-time command view and control over a variety of personnel accountability and safety parameters during emergency response activities of personnel wearing the system of the present invention portable device while operating within the wireless network of an emergency incident scene. Configured to be carried by emergency services personnel while deployed on scene, the portable device is a multi-functional sensing and communicating integration of accountability and situational awareness technologies consolidated into one portable, telemetry device. The portable device's multifunctional integrated technology includes the monitoring, telemetry and alert notification of accountability identification, location, assignment notification, vital signs, ambient vicinity temperature, SCBA status, combustible gas sensing, video streaming, “evacuation” recall signaling, signal tracking and multi-alarm signaling if the wearer has either low remaining air pressure / time, impending thermal breakthrough, low battery power, exceeds the safety threshold for safe heart rate or external body temperature readings, or becomes motionless for a predetermined time period.

The present invention provides systems and methods for navigational signal tracking in low power mode to conserve the power of handheld navigation receivers. In an embodiment, the receiver cycles between sleep and wakeup states. During the sleep state, most of the components of the receiver are powered off to conserve power, and during the wakeup state, the receiver tracks navigational signals. In an embodiment, the duty cycle of the sleep / wakeup states depends on the receiver dynamic state, e.g., whether the receiver is accelerating. In another embodiment, during the wakeup state, the receiver selects a tracking mode based on the signal strength. Under weak signal conditions, a tracking mode using a long integration to track the satellite signal is disclosed. In one embodiment, a tracking mode tracks the navigation signal by performing data aided integration using known or predicted data bits, such as the TLM and HOW words.

The present invention provides GPS receivers capable of tracking very weak GPS signals particularly in an indoor environment without assistance from an external server or a network. In a preferred embodiment, a GPS receiver initially acquires and locks onto GPS satellite signals to compute receiver position outdoors. The GPS receiver then tracks at least one satellite signal indoors to maintain acquisition parameters for quick acquisition of GPS signals. To save power, the receiver automatically goes to the sleep state and periodically wakes up, i.e., powers up, to maintain the at least one satellite signal tracking. During the wakeup state, the receiver collects ephemeris data from the at least one satellite signal when the ephemeris data needs to be updated for quick acquisition of GPS signals.

A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and associated method capable of acquiring weak GNSS signals from a plurality of GNSS satellites produces a GNSS signal's code time, carrier frequency, and data bit transition parameters for subsequent signal tracking and position fixing. The GNSS receiver includes a baseband signal processor with special functionalities for acquiring weak signals. In a preferred embodiment, the time and frequency uncertainty space is reduced using available information and then special techniques are used to rapidly search the remaining uncertainty space. Successive reversal of short-length correlations within a data bit interval (a block) enables data bit transition detection and data bit sign correction prior to coherent integration. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is applied as a bank of bandpass filters to coherently accumulate blocks of short-length correlations over extended coherent integration intervals to boost the signal power while averaging noise out despite unknown data bit transitions.

System and method for providing type-II (and higher order) phase-locked loops (PLLs) with a fast signal acquisition mode. A preferred embodiment comprises a loop filter with a proportional loop gain path (proportional loop gain circuit 1115) and an integral loop gain block (integral loop gain block 1120). The proportional loop gain path is used during signal acquisition to provide large loop bandwidth, hence fast signal acquisition of a desired signal. Then, during the PLL's signal tracking phase, the integral loop gain block is enabled and its output is combined with output from the proportional loop gain path to provide higher order filtering of the desired signal. An offset that may be present due to the use of the proportional loop gain path can be measured and subtracted to help improve signal tracking settling times.

A transmitter comprises an amplifier operable for receiving an input signal and amplifying the input signal to produce an output signal. A power supply is coupled to the amplifier for supplying power to the amplifier, the power supply operable for tracking the input signal and varying the level of power supplied to the amplifier in response to variation of the input signal. A predistortion circuit is coupled to the power supply, the predistortion circuit operable for receiving the input signal and predistorting the input signal to the power supply for addressing input signal tracking capabilities of the power supply.

The invention relates to a water quality on-line monitoring system which comprises a data acquisition device, a server and a client machine. The data acquisition device comprises a first data communication module, a device operation maintenance module and a parameter acquisition unit; the server comprises a second data communication module, a network server and a database server; the first data communication module of the data acquisition device is connected with the second data communication module of the server through Ethernet or a wireless communication network for two-way data transmission; the second data communication module of the server is connected with the client machine through the Ethernet for two-way data transmission; and the client machine comprises an information display module, a remote control module, a water quality pre-warning module and a signaling tracking module. The system has low construction, operation and maintenance cost, real-time monitoring of data and intuitive display of the data; and the system further has the functions of signaling tracking, remote upgrading and water quality pre-warning. The system is particularly applicable to carrying out real-time monitoring, statistical analysis and management on pollution discharge status of existing enterprises, quality of surface water and drinking water and the like.

A GPS receiver includes baseband resources for simultaneous determination of carrier frequency shift and code chip offset. Reduction in the power consumption of a receiver is achieved by managing the sampling rate of an analog-to-digital converter, the intermediate frequency of the RF front end, and the front end bandwidth so these are appropriate to the current function of the receiver. In a GPS receiver during signal tracking, the IF, front end bandwidth, and ADC sampling rate are set as high as possible; during signal acquisition, the IF and front end bandwidth are set to relatively low values, and the ADC sample rate is set to a high value; and during ephemeris download, the IF, front end bandwidth, and the ADC sample rate are set to relatively low values. When a low battery condition is detected, the IF, front end bandwidth, and the ADC sample rate are set to relatively low values regardless of whether the GPS receiver is in the signal acquisition mode, signal tracking mode, or ephemeris download mode.

A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and associated method capable of acquiring weak GNSS signals from a plurality of GNSS satellites produces a GNSS signal's code time, carrier frequency, and data bit transition parameters for subsequent signal tracking and position fixing. The GNSS receiver includes a baseband signal processor with special functionalities for acquiring weak signals. In a preferred embodiment, the time and frequency uncertainty space is reduced using available information and then special techniques are used to rapidly search the remaining uncertainty space. Successive reversal of short-length correlations within a data bit interval (a block) enables data bit transition detection and data bit sign correction prior to coherent integration. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is applied as a bank of bandpass filters to coherently accumulate blocks of short-length correlations over extended coherent integration intervals to boost the signal power while averaging noise out despite unknown data bit transitions.

The invention relates to a carrier phase height measurement device based on a GNSS-R technology and a method thereof. The device comprises a GNSS-R receiving module, a direct signal processing module, a reflected signal processing module and a reflected signal carrier phase height measurement module, wherein the reflected signal carrier phase height measurement module comprises an open-loop tracking unit and a time differential phase height measurement unit; the open-loop tracking unit takes the direct signal tracking frequency as the local reference frequency so as to effectively track the GNSS reflected signal and obtain the reflected signal carrier phase observed quantity; and the time differential phase height measurement unit utilizes the single-frequency reflected signal phase observed quantity obtained by the open-loop tracking unit to invert accurate water level in a time differential phase height measurement method. The height measurement method accurately measures the water level by the GNSS water surface reflected signal carrier phase, and effective reflected signal phase observed quantity can be obtained by open-loop tracking. A time differential phase height measurement algorithm is simple and can realize high-accuracy height measurement of the water level within a short time.

A method of enhancing signal tracking in a global positioning system receiver utilizing a frequency banked filter in providing code and carrier tracking loops includes acquiring a continuous time global positioning signal and separating the continuous time global positioning signal into in-phase and quadrature signals I and Q. The signals I and Q are sampled over a predetection interval (PDI) to provide discrete time signals, and the discrete time signals are used to generate a component in-phase measurement and a component quadrature measurement for each of multiple PDI segments of one PDI. For each of multiple different frequency bins, composite in-phase and quadrature measurements are generated by combining component in-phase measurements and component quadrature measurements from the PDI. Power is detected in each of the multiple different frequency bins for the PDI using the corresponding composite in-phase measurement and the corresponding composite quadrature measurement generated for the frequency bin.

The invention discloses a signaling tracking method, system for user switching, and nodes in access network, wherein the method includes that: user device initiates switching from node in source access network to node in destination access network; the mentioned node in destination access network signaling tracks user device based on tracking control and / or configuration parameters after receiving the same from the mentioned node in source access network. Signaling tracking can be carried out in user switching process of evolution network by message signaling between nodes.

A method for performing timing analysis comprising inputting circuit timing information for a circuit, including temporal constraints between events of a desired circuit operation. A timing diagram representing the desired circuit operation, based on the circuit timing information is generater. All violated constraints within said timing diagram are identified. The method forces no violations of said violated constraints by designating the violated constraints as Non-Breakable (NB) constraints, such that a time difference from a source event to a destination event which defines said NB constraint is no less than a minimum bound and no more than a maximum bound of a linear constraint representing a timing requirement between the source and the destination events.

The invention provides an airborne laser communication equipment and a control method thereof. Beacon light and source light are received by the same receiving antenna, separated, processed and transmitted to a control module, pitch and azimuth angles of equipment are regulated on the basis of received beacon light and source light signals, signal tracking is performed, and fed-back beacon light and source light signals are transmitted through two different transmitting terminals, so that exchange work of signals of both sides is guaranteed. The airborne laser communication equipment and control method thereof solve the technical problems that the communication speed and the image resolution cannot meet requirements and wide coverage and real-time transmission cannot be guaranteed simultaneously in the prior art.

The invention relates to a hot rolling manufacturing management level graphical rolling line material tracking method, which mainly solves the technical problem that a manufacturing manager can not remotely monitor hot rolling line production and equipment status. The method has the technical proposal that the hot rolling manufacturing management level graphical rolling line material tracking method comprises the following steps: a. a rolling line signal tracking step: tracking signal data of the key position from an export of a heating furnace to the end of coiling is collected by a rolling line tracking signal collector, and then is transmitted to a MES by communication software; b. a rolling line signal filtrating step: the received tracking signal is analyzed and treated by a rolling line tracking signal filter, and the efficient tracking signal is stored in a database; c. a rolling line signal monitoring and graphical simulation step: tracking signal change information collected by a rolling line tracking signal monitor is input into a rolling line tracking graphical emulator; a band steel action graph is drawn out in real time at a client of the MES; field actual rolling process is simulated; the position of the band steel and the equipment state of a rolling mill are reflected in real time. The method mainly realizes real time tracking and dynamic mapping a track view on the material position during rolling process on the MES.

A method and device to track navigational satellite signals, are claimed. In this invention, a combination of down-sampling and frequency domain transformation are used to track the navigational satellite signals under dynamic environment. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) with long coherent integration has been employed to determine the varying frequency components with high resolution. By representing a number of correlation values with their average value, it is possible to represent a long sequence of input values by a smaller number of values and a relatively short length FFT can reveal the low frequency components that are present in the signal during tracking operation. A large reduction in the computational load may be achieved using this down-sampling method without compromising on the frequency resolution.

The invention discloses a tri-axial platform servo motor control method based on the combination of a BP neural network and an active disturbance rejection controller. The tri-axial platform servo motor control method includes the following steps that 1, the kinetic equation of a tri-axial platform arbitrary-frame servo system containing a friction model is built; 2,according to the kinetic equation in the formula (I),the active disturbance rejection controller is designed; 3,a BP neural network parameter on-line setting module is designed and combined with the active disturbance rejection controller, and active disturbance rejection controller on-line parameter setting is achieved. By the adoption of the tri-axial platform servo motor control method based on the combination of the BP neural network and the active disturbance rejection controller, a flat top phenomenon and a dead zone phenomenon of a servo system can be basically eliminated, wherein the flat top phenomenon occurs during position signal tracking, and the dead zone phenomenon occurs during speed signal tracking; therefore, the position tracking precision and the speed tracking precision of the servo system can be improved.

For the reduction of the multipath error of received GNSS navigation signals, a sequential Bayesian estimation is used, with a movement model underlying this estimation, which model is particularly designed for dynamic channel situations. Sequential Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate the posterior probability density functions of the signal parameters. To facilitate an efficient integration in received signal tracking loops, the invention builds on complexity reduction concepts that have previously been used in maximum likelihood (ML) estimators.Applicable with GNSS satellite navigation receivers, e.g. GPS and Galileo.

The invention discloses a GNSS carrier loop circuit tracking method based on a stochastic resonance algorithm. According to the invention, the signal to noise ratio of receiving signals is increased by integral accumulation and multiplication feedback treatment on input signals; rough tracking of frequency of the receiving signals is performed by utilizing a second-order frequency locking loop; and precise tracking is performed on the signals subjected to rough tracking by adopting a third-order phase locking loop. Therefore, precise carrier loop circuit tracking on the GNSS signals is realized in a low carrier-to-noise ratio. According to the invention, an advantage of the stochastic resonance algorithm in an aspect of improving the signal to noise ratio and an advantage of anti-interference and robustness of the cooperation of the second order frequency locking loop and the third-order phase locking loop are integrated effectively. The method is simple in hardware implementation and stable in signal tracking, and can realize stable and reliable tracking of highly dynamic satellite signals by a receiver in a severe environment.

The invention provides a GNSS / MINS (global navigation satellite system / micro-electro-mechanical systems inertial navigation system) super-deep combination navigation method, aiming to realize super-deep combination of a GNSS and an MINS. The GNSS uses a direct location estimation method to estimate location errors, speed error and clock errors according to location and speed auxiliary information provided by an INS (inertial navigation system) to close loops; a system takes an MIMU (MINS inertial measurement unit) and a base band correlator as sensors to realize all the navigation functions in a top combinational algorithm, in other words, the algorithm takes the GNSS base band correlator as the sensor of sensitive space-time locating fields and takes the MIMU as the sensor of sensitive inertance fields to realize integral combination of the GNSS and the MINS; and by the aid of the INS, the GNSS combines multichannel information to perform vector phase discrimination and vector locating. The invention further provides super-deep combination system and device applied to the method. The method, the system and the device have the advantages of high navigation accuracy, good dynamic property, high GNSS tracking sensitivity, high GNSS anti-interference performance, wide GNSS dynamic pulling range and the like; and in theory, the dynamic range is limited by trends of the MINS, and -160dBM (decibels above one milliwatt in 600 ohms) signal tracking can be realized by the GNSS by the aid of the MINS.

This invention discloses a signaling tracking method including: a, a signaling following request start-up unit sends a signaling following request to multiple nodes, b, the nodes having received the signaling following request follow and collect the signaling following information of the user followed by the signaling following start-up unit in its own NE, c, the nodes having received the request and collected the information of the user to be followed feed back said collected signaling following information to said start-up unit. This invention also discloses a signaling following system.

The invention discloses Kalman filtering, digital phase-locked loop filtering and signal tracking methods and Kalman filtering, digital phase-locked loop filtering and signal tracking devices, and belongs to the field of wireless communication. The signal tracking method comprises the following steps of: processing the received signal to obtain a receiving signal, and extracting a current observed value from the receiving signal, wherein the receiving signal comprises receiving carriers and receiving codes; and judging whether speed, accelerated speed or jerk of a receiver is greater than a preset threshold value, if so, determining that the carrier is positioned in a high dynamic environment, and performing signal tracking by utilizing the Kalman filtering, otherwise, determining that the carrier is positioned in a non-high dynamic environment, and performing signal tracking by utilizing a digital phase-locked loop. The invention also discloses a signal tracking device, a Kalman filtering method, a Kalman filtering device, a digital phase-locked loop filtering method and a digital phase-locked loop filtering device. The provided methods make the receiver adaptively switch a carrier tracking method, reduce the loop error, improve a refresh rate of a positioning result, and fulfill the aim of continuously tracking and locking the signal in a complex dynamic environment.

The invention discloses a robot automatic charging system and a charging method thereof. The system comprises a power monitoring unit, an infrared signal receiving unit, an infrared distance measuring unit, a wireless signal transceiver unit, a visual recognition unit, a robot control unit, and a motion system unit, wherein the robot control unit is connected with the power monitoring unit, the infrared signal receiving unit, the infrared distance measuring unit, the wireless signal transceiver unit, the visual recognition unit and the motion system unit. According to the invention, an infrared signal tracking method and an image identification method are combined together. By fusing originally single methods, problems occurring in tracking using only one method are solved. Thus, a robot can accurately and stably find a charging pile for charging without environmental interference.

The present invention is a system and method that facilitates measurement of timing variations (e.g., timing delays) in a semiconductor chip. The timing variations are measured and presented as digital values without extensive off chip measurement and analysis equipment. The timing variation measurements provides insight into timing variations (e.g., delays) inside a semiconductor chip and across different chips, including timing impacts experienced in end use after manufacturing. A timing variation measurement system includes a variation test signal generator for passing a signal through a portion of a circuit and generating a variation test signal. A variation test signal tracking component digitally counts cycles in a variation test signal and a control component controls the counting (e.g., the length of time the cycles are counted). Timing variation information, including a digital value associated with the variation test signal cycle count, can be communicated via pins and / or a processor interface.

The invention relates to an ultrashort-term slide prediction method for wind power. An atomic sparse decomposition method with quite high non-stable signal tracking and prediction capacity is used as a front decomposition method of a neural network. A wind power time sequence is decomposed into an atomic component and a residual error component, the atomic component is automatically predicted, the residual error component is predicted by the neural network, atomic decomposition results are updated by adding the latest wind power real-time data, and further the wind power of a next moment is slidably predicted. Actual wind field data prove that the model can effectively avoid non-stability of the wind power, sparser decomposition effects are achieved, and statistical intervals of absolute average error and root mean square error computation values can be remarkably reduced. Therefore, the ultrashort-term slide prediction method has the advantages that non-stability of the wind power can be effectively avoided, the sparser decomposition effects are achieved, and the statistical intervals of the absolute average error and root mean square error computation values can be remarkably reduced.

A transmitter comprises an amplifier operable for receiving an input signal and amplifying the input signal to produce an output signal. A power supply is coupled to the amplifier for supplying power to the amplifier, the power supply operable for tracking the input signal and varying the level of power supplied to the amplifier in response to variation of the input signal. A predistortion circuit is coupled to the power supply, the predistortion circuit operable for receiving the input signal and predistorting the input signal to the power supply for addressing input signal tracking capabilities of the power supply.

The invention discloses a vector tracking-based GNSS / SINS deep integrated navigation method. The method includes the following steps that: after in-phase orthogonal signals outputted by a correlator are calculated by a phase discrimination function, an obtained phase discrimination result is adopted as measurement information of a pre-filter, so that a pre-filter model can be constructed to estimate tracking error information, and therefore, the pseudo-range and pseudo-range rate of a GNSS tracking channel can be obtained; an integrated navigation main filter performs processing according to the pseudo-ranges and pseudo-range rates outputted by the GNSS tracking channel and an SINS, so that pseudo-range deviation and range rate deviation can be obtained and are adopted as measurement variables quantity, and the measurement quantity is used for updating navigation error state variables, and updated navigation error parameters are fed back to the SINS, so that the navigation parameters of the SINS can be calibrated; and an integrated navigation system infers the signal tracking parameters of a GNSS according to the calibrated SINS navigation parameters and ephemeris information so as to control the local pseudo codes of a receiver and a carrier digital-controlled oscillator, and therefore, tracking for input signals can be maintained. The method of the invention has excellent anti-jamming performance and dynamic tracking ability, and has a bright application prospect.

Disclosed is a GPS (global positioning system) software receiver tracking method based on an FPGA (field programmable gate array). Inputted digital intermediate-frequency signals are transmitted into a code correlator after multiplying two channels I and Q of a carrier generator to obtain six channels of relevant results; in a carrier tracking loop, IP and QP in six channels of relevant outputs are transmitted into a phase decision device, frequency discrimination computation is carried out by a carrier frequency discriminator when phase deviation meets the condition that delta theta is larger than theta H, phase discrimination computation is carried out by a carrier phase discriminator if the phase deviation meets the condition that delta theta is smaller than theta H, a result is transmitted into the carrier generator after being filtered by a carrier loop filter so that carrier frequency is adjusted; and in a code tracking loop, IE, IL, QE and QL are taken to be transmitted into a code loop discriminator to be in phase discrimination computation, and results are transmitted into a CA (coarse acquisition) code generator after being filtered by a code loop filter so that phase ofCA codes is adjusted. The two loops are cross-coupled, the carrier frequency and the phase of the codes are synchronously tracked, accordingly, locally reproduced carriers and codes are aligned with signals, and navigation data bits are obtained after integral judgment for the IP is carried out by a posterior integral accumulation decision device.

The invention provides a GNSS (global navigation satellite system) anti-spoofing loop tracking method based on inertial information aiding and parameter estimation. The GNSS anti-spoofing loop tracking method comprises the following steps of performing exploring study on the application of a signal estimation algorithm in an anti-spoofing field; utilizing a signal estimation algorithm to estimate a similar GNSS signal, identifying by aiding with the inertial information, and integrating the information to distinguish a spoofing signal and a true signal. The signal estimation algorithm is aided by the inertial navigation information, so as to propose a new tracking loop structure, thereby realizing double advantages of more reference for the tracking loop, and relative independence of the GNSS and an inertial navigation system. The GNSS anti-spoofing loop tracking method has the advantages that one set of complete anti-spoofing plan integrating signal estimation and detection, spoofing signal inhibition and true signal tracking is realized, and the spoofing interference can be inhibited to ensure the accuracy and stability of a receiver in working.

The invention discloses a parallel navigation satellite signal tracking method based on GPU (graphics processing unit) and a system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: constructing a multichannel carrier tracking loop and a pseudo code tracking loop on CPU(central processing unit)-GPU, wherein the CPU is in charge of data reading, loop phase discrimination and control functions and the like, and the GPU is in charge of the relevant calculation and integral summation functions of a great quantity of data sequences; after the GPU finishes the integral summation calculation, adopting a two-stage binary tree calculation structure; calculating an error by a carrier phase discriminator and a CA (certification authority) code phase discriminator on the CPU; and controlling a local carrier phase and a CA code phase to correct to realize the tracking. According to the invention, the defects of poor flexibility and black box operation of a hardware receiver system and the defect that various navigation satellite signal systems can not be supported are overcome. Meanwhile, the processing speed and precision of a software receiver can be enhanced, the cost of the software receiver is lowered, and a GNSS (global navigation satellite system) software receiver can track the multichannel navigation satellite signal in real time.