The received signal of the polarization sensitive array is proved to have trilinear model characteristics. The blind parallel factor（PARAFAC） signal detection algorithm for the polarization sensitive array is propos...The received signal of the polarization sensitive array is proved to have trilinear model characteristics. The blind parallel factor（PARAFAC） signal detection algorithm for the polarization sensitive array is proposed. The trilinear alternating least square （TALS） algorithm is used to abtain the source matrix, and then the matrix is judged. Simulation results show that the bit error rate （BER） of the detection algorithm is close to that of the non-blind decorrelating method and the algorithm works well under the array error condition. BER difference between the non-blind method and this algorithm is less than 2 dB under a high SNR. The algorithm is blind and robust. The channel fading, the direction of arrive（DOA） imformation and the polarization information are needless in the algorithm.展开更多
The high resolution of DOA（direction of arrival） estimation could be obtained by using the min-norm algorithm. In this paper, the expression of the min-norm spatial spectrum based on acoustic vector-sensor（AVS） li...The high resolution of DOA（direction of arrival） estimation could be obtained by using the min-norm algorithm. In this paper, the expression of the min-norm spatial spectrum based on acoustic vector-sensor（AVS） linear arrays was presented and simulation study was carried out. Results of simulations indicated that left/right ambiguity could be removed and better performance for DOA estimation was obtainable when dealing with sources close to endfire than using pressure hydrophone linear arrays, and the interelement spacing was allowed to exceed the half-wavelength upper limit. A three-element vector hydrophone linear array with two meters interspace was designed. The AVS experiment was carried out at Songhua Lake in Jinlin Province. Experimental results show a high resolution tracking of targets can be obtained using the rain-norm algorithm.展开更多
A dimension decomposition(DIDE)method for multiple incoherent source localization using uniform circular array(UCA)is proposed.Due to the fact that the far-field signal can be considered as the state where the range p...A dimension decomposition(DIDE)method for multiple incoherent source localization using uniform circular array(UCA)is proposed.Due to the fact that the far-field signal can be considered as the state where the range parameter of the nearfield signal is infinite,the algorithm for the near-field source localization is also suitable for estimating the direction of arrival(DOA)of far-field signals.By decomposing the first and second exponent term of the steering vector,the three-dimensional(3-D)parameter is transformed into two-dimensional(2-D)and onedimensional(1-D)parameter estimation.First,by partitioning the received data,we exploit propagator to acquire the noise subspace.Next,the objective function is established and partial derivative is applied to acquire the spatial spectrum of 2-D DOA.At last,the estimated 2-D DOA is utilized to calculate the phase of the decomposed vector,and the least squares(LS)is performed to acquire the range parameters.In comparison to the existing algorithms,the proposed DIDE algorithm requires neither the eigendecomposition of covariance matrix nor the search process of range spatial spectrum,which can achieve satisfactory localization and reduce computational complexity.Simulations are implemented to illustrate the advantages of the proposed DIDE method.Moreover,simulations demonstrate that the proposed DIDE method can also classify the mixed far-field and near-field signals.展开更多
In this paper,we propose a beam space coversion(BSC)-based approach to achieve a single near-field signal local-ization under uniform circular array(UCA).By employing the centro-symmetric geometry of UCA,we apply BSC ...In this paper,we propose a beam space coversion(BSC)-based approach to achieve a single near-field signal local-ization under uniform circular array(UCA).By employing the centro-symmetric geometry of UCA,we apply BSC to extract the two-dimensional(2-D)angles of near-field signal in the Van-dermonde form,which allows for azimuth and elevation angle estimation by utilizing the improved estimation of signal para-meters via rotational invariance techniques(ESPRIT)algorithm.By substituting the calculated 2-D angles into the direction vec-tor of near-field signal,the range parameter can be conse-quently obtained by the 1-D multiple signal classification(MU-SIC)method.Simulations demonstrate that the proposed al-gorithm can achieve a single near-field signal localization,which can provide satisfactory performance and reduce computational complexity.展开更多
In this paper, a two-dimensional(2D) DOA estimation algorithm of coherent signals with a separated linear acoustic vector-sensor(AVS) array consisting of two sparse AVS arrays is proposed. Firstly,the partitioned spat...In this paper, a two-dimensional(2D) DOA estimation algorithm of coherent signals with a separated linear acoustic vector-sensor(AVS) array consisting of two sparse AVS arrays is proposed. Firstly,the partitioned spatial smoothing(PSS) technique is used to construct a block covariance matrix, so as to decorrelate the coherency of signals. Then a signal subspace can be obtained by singular value decomposition(SVD) of the covariance matrix. Using the signal subspace, two extended signal subspaces are constructed to compensate aperture loss caused by PSS.The elevation angles can be estimated by estimation of signal parameter via rotational invariance techniques(ESPRIT) algorithm. At last, the estimated elevation angles can be used to estimate automatically paired azimuth angles. Compared with some other ESPRIT algorithms, the proposed algorithm shows higher estimation accuracy, which can be proved through the simulation results.展开更多
Spatial covariance matrix(SCM) is essential in many multi-antenna systems such as massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO). For multi-antenna systems operating at millimeter-wave bands, hybrid analog-digital struc...Spatial covariance matrix(SCM) is essential in many multi-antenna systems such as massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO). For multi-antenna systems operating at millimeter-wave bands, hybrid analog-digital structure has been widely adopted to reduce the cost of radio frequency chains.In this situation, signals received at the antennas are unavailable to the digital receiver, and as a consequence, traditional sample average approach cannot be used for SCM reconstruction in hybrid multi-antenna systems. To address this issue, beam sweeping algorithm(BSA) which can reconstruct the SCM effectively for a hybrid uniform linear array, has been proposed in our previous works. However, direct extension of BSA to a hybrid uniform circular array(UCA)will result in a huge computational burden. To this end, a low-complexity approach is proposed in this paper. By exploiting the symmetry features of SCM for the UCA, the number of unknowns can be reduced significantly and thus the complexity of reconstruction can be saved accordingly. Furthermore, an insightful analysis is also presented in this paper, showing that the reduction of the number of unknowns can also improve the accuracy of the reconstructed SCM. Simulation results are also shown to demonstrate the proposed approach.展开更多
In array signal processing, 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation is required to determine DOA of multiple signals. The circular array of sensors is found to possess several nice properties for DOA estimation of wide-band s...In array signal processing, 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation is required to determine DOA of multiple signals. The circular array of sensors is found to possess several nice properties for DOA estimation of wide-band sources. C. U. Padmini, et al.(1994) had suggested that the frequency-direction ambiguity in azimuth estimation of wide-baud signals received by a uniform linear array (ULA) can be avoided by using a circular array, even without the use of any delay elements. In 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band signals, the authors find that it is impossible to avoid the ambiguity in source frequency-elevation angle pairs using a circular array. In this paper, interpolated circular arrays are used to perform 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band sources. In the estimation, a large aperture circular array (Υ】λmin/2) is found to possess superior resolution capability and robustness.展开更多
A low-sidelobe circularly-polarized(CP) microstrip patch array for 2.4 GHz radio frequency identification(RFID) readers is presented.The antenna array with a Chebyshev current distribution is composed of 6 microstrip ...A low-sidelobe circularly-polarized(CP) microstrip patch array for 2.4 GHz radio frequency identification(RFID) readers is presented.The antenna array with a Chebyshev current distribution is composed of 6 microstrip elements.The CP operation is obtained by the quasi-square patch with difference in lengths of the two sides.The antenna has been investigated numerically and experimentally.Measured results show that the array has a Chebyshev pattern with the sidelobe level of-23 dB, the half-power beamwidth of 16° and an impedance bandwidth(S11≤-10 dB) of 130 MHz, which is suitable for RFID reader applications.展开更多
The circular sector patch antenna is studied in C-band (4 GHz - 8 GHz). In this paper, we present steps of designing the circular sector antenna then a comparison with a rectangular antenna in literature. High Frequen...The circular sector patch antenna is studied in C-band (4 GHz - 8 GHz). In this paper, we present steps of designing the circular sector antenna then a comparison with a rectangular antenna in literature. High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) software is used to compute the gain, axial ratio, radiation pattern, and return loss S11 of proposed antenna. Based on the designed patch antenna, many phased arrays will be simulated using HFSS. The impact of distance between element, number of element and phase will be checked. Obtained results are analyzed and compared with literature.展开更多
Naturally suited array geometry for 360° coverage is the uniform circular array (UCA). A comparison of two types of uniform circular array configurations is presented in this paper. Due to its symmetrical...Naturally suited array geometry for 360° coverage is the uniform circular array (UCA). A comparison of two types of uniform circular array configurations is presented in this paper. Due to its symmetrical geometry UCA is always targeted which results in minimal change inside lobe levels and beam width when scanned by a phased array antenna. Particle Swarm Optimization and Cuckoo algorithm are used for the calculation of complex weights of the array elements. Comparisons are drawn in the context of adaptive beam forming capabilities. Obtained results suggest that planar uniform circular array (9:10) using Cuckoo algorithm, has better beam forming properties with also reduced side lobe levels when compared to other geometry.展开更多
The influence of a rigid spherical baffle on the response of a uniform circular microphone array （UCA） is analyzed and two eigen-beam beamforming arrays are designed in the eigen-beam subspaee derived from the sound...The influence of a rigid spherical baffle on the response of a uniform circular microphone array （UCA） is analyzed and two eigen-beam beamforming arrays are designed in the eigen-beam subspaee derived from the soundfield decomposition. Expressions of white noise gain （WNG） and directivity index （DI） are derived for the designed arrays. Performance analyses are carried out for the designed arrays and compared between those of the delay-and-sum beamforming array using UCA with and without a rigid sphere. Computer simulations demonstrate that the designed arrays have frequency-independent directivity with the cost of reduced robustness at low frequency band. The delay-and-sum beamforming array has constant WNG at all frequencies, while its directivity of which is reduced at low frequency band. The rigid sphere can improve the robustness for all the arrays.展开更多
In this paper,a method for designing supermassive sparse phased arrays(SMSPAs)known as the unitary modified matrix enhancement and matrix pencil(UMMEMP)method is proposed.In this method,an eigenvalue pairing method,wh...In this paper,a method for designing supermassive sparse phased arrays(SMSPAs)known as the unitary modified matrix enhancement and matrix pencil(UMMEMP)method is proposed.In this method,an eigenvalue pairing method,which is inspired by the modified MEMP,effectively pairs the repeated eigenvalues intractable in the unitary matrix pencil method,and it is more effective in determining the locations of elements in the sparse array.Three numerical examples and a full-wave validation are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method,implemented via SMSPA,in achieving low sidelobe level wide-angle scanning radiation patterns,circular flattop radiation patterns,and ultra wide-angle scanning radiation patterns.展开更多
A scanning and uniform array architecture with large spacing,low complexity and high scalability is presented for high integration massive array applications.It is constructed by offset phase center elements arranged ...A scanning and uniform array architecture with large spacing,low complexity and high scalability is presented for high integration massive array applications.It is constructed by offset phase center elements arranged in a uniform and regular way,but its spacing can be larger than that of traditional arrays.An ideal model of the offset phase center element is established and its far-field distribution is derived.To suppress grating lobes,the phase center of any element is designed to be movable without changing its physical position.Using genetic algorithm(GA),a new constraint condition limiting the number of phase center changes is proposed to solve the objective function of the minimum values of grating lobes(GLs)and side lobes(SLs).It is shown that the optimal results can be achieved by two changes of phase centers.A multimode circular patch is developed and designed,and characteristics of the offset phase center are analyzed and verified.A prototype array of 12×12 offset phase center elements is implemented based on multi-mode circular patches.Full wave simulation results of radiation patterns show that the level of grating lobes is suppressed at least 7dB with 1.12λ spacing,while the scanning angle is 20°.展开更多
A uniform array of scalar-sensors with intersensor spacings over a large aperture size generally offers enhanced resolution and source localization accuracy,but it may also lead to cyclic ambiguity.By exploiting the p...A uniform array of scalar-sensors with intersensor spacings over a large aperture size generally offers enhanced resolution and source localization accuracy,but it may also lead to cyclic ambiguity.By exploiting the polarization information of impinging waves,an electromagnetic vector-sensor array outperforms the unpolarized scalar-sensor array in resolving this cyclic ambiguity.However,the electromagnetic vector-sensor array usually consists of cocentered orthogonal loops and dipoles（COLD）,which is easily subjected to mutual coupling across these cocentered dipoles/loops.As a result,the source localization performance of the COLD array may substantially degrade rather than being improved.This paper proposes a new source localization method with a non-cocentered orthogonal loop and dipole（NCOLD）array.The NCOLD array contains only one dipole or loop on each array grid,and the intersensor spacings are larger than a half-wavelength.Therefore,unlike the COLD array,these well separated dipoles/loops minimize the mutual coupling effects and extend the spatial aperture as well.With the NCOLD array,the proposed method can effciently exploit the polarization information to offer high localization precision.展开更多
A new radial-line helical array (RLHA) using dual-branch helical antennas has been designed for improving the power capacity of RLHAs. The helical element is cavity-backed to lower the mutual coupling and its power ca...A new radial-line helical array (RLHA) using dual-branch helical antennas has been designed for improving the power capacity of RLHAs. The helical element is cavity-backed to lower the mutual coupling and its power capacity is higher than the conventional ones. The components of the proposed array are discussed and the power capacity is obtained by simulation. Compared with the typical RLHAs, the proposed sub-array has not only higher power capacity but also uses fewer elements. Experimentally, the measured results of an array prototype indicate that high gain as well as circular polarization has been successfully achieved.展开更多
This work investigates the direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation for a uniform circular acoustic Vector-Sensor Array(UCAVSA) mounted around a cylindrical baffle.The total pressure field and the total particle velocity ...This work investigates the direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation for a uniform circular acoustic Vector-Sensor Array(UCAVSA) mounted around a cylindrical baffle.The total pressure field and the total particle velocity field near the surface of the cylindrical baffle are analyzed theoretically by applying the method of spatial Fourier transform.Then the so-called modal vector-sensor array signal processing algorithm,which is based on the decomposed wavefield representations,for the UCAVSA mounted around the cylindrical baffle is proposed.Simulation and experimental results show that the UCAVSA mounted around the cylindrical baffle has distinct advantages over the same manifold of traditional uniform circular pressure-sensor array(UCPSA).It is pointed out that the acoustic Vector-Sensor(AVS) could be used under the condition of the cylindrical baffle and that the UCAVSA mounted around the cylindrical baffle could also combine the anti-noise performance of the AVS with spatial resolution performance of array system by means of modal vector-sensor array signal processing algorithms.展开更多
A joint estimation algorithm of direction of arrival （DOA）, frequency, and polarization, based on fourth-order cumulants and uniform circular array （UCA） of trimmed vector sensors is presented for narrowband non-G...A joint estimation algorithm of direction of arrival （DOA）, frequency, and polarization, based on fourth-order cumulants and uniform circular array （UCA） of trimmed vector sensors is presented for narrowband non-Gaussian signals. The proposed approach, which is suitable for applications in arbitrary Gaussian noise environments, gives a closed-form representation of the estimated parameters, without spectral peak searching. An efficient method is also provided for elimination of cyclic phase ambiguities. Simulations are presented to show the performance of the algorithm.展开更多
In this paper, a low complexity direction of arrival(DOA) estimation method for massive uniform circular array(UCA) with single snapshot is proposed.Firstly, the coarse DOAs are estimated by finding the peaks from the...In this paper, a low complexity direction of arrival(DOA) estimation method for massive uniform circular array(UCA) with single snapshot is proposed.Firstly, the coarse DOAs are estimated by finding the peaks from the circular convolution between a fixed coefficient vector and the received data vector.Thereafter, in order to refine coarse DOA estimates, we reconstruct the direction matrix based on the coarse DOA estimations and take the first order Taylor expansion with DOA estimation offsets into account.Finally, the refined estimations are obtained by compensating the offsets, which are obtained via least squares(LS) without any complex searches.In addition, the refinement can be iteratively implemented to enhance the estimation results.Compared to the offset search method, the proposed method achieves a better estimation performance while requiring lower complexity.Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
A new Direction Of Arrival （DOA） estimation algorithm for wideband sources based on Uniform Circular Array （UCA） is presented via analyzing widcband performance of the general ESPRIT. The algorithm effectively imp...A new Direction Of Arrival （DOA） estimation algorithm for wideband sources based on Uniform Circular Array （UCA） is presented via analyzing widcband performance of the general ESPRIT. The algorithm effectively improves the wideband performance of ESPRIT based on the interpolation principium and UCA-ESPRIT. The simulated results by computer demonstrate its efficiency.展开更多
Orbital angular momentum(OAM)at radio frequency(RF)has attracted more and more attention as a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal OAM modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectral efficie...Orbital angular momentum(OAM)at radio frequency(RF)has attracted more and more attention as a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal OAM modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectral efficiency(SE).However,the precondition for maintaining the orthogonality among different OAM modes is perfect alignment of the transmit and receive uniform circular arrays(UCAs),which is difficult to be satisfied in practical wireless communication scenarios.Therefore,to achieve available multi-mode OAM broadband wireless communication,we first investigate the effect of oblique angles on the transmission performance of the multi-mode OAM broadband system in the non-parallel misalignment case.Then,we compare the UCA-based RF analog and baseband digital transceiver structures and corresponding beam steering schemes.Mathematical analysis and numerical simulations validate that the SE of the misaligned multi-mode OAM broadband system is quite low,while analog and digital beam steering(DBS)both can significantly improve the SE of the system.However,DBS can obtain higher SE than analog beam steering especially when the bandwidth and the number of array elements are large,which validates that the baseband digital transceiver with DBS is more suitable for multi-mode OAM broadband wireless communication systems in practice.展开更多
文摘The received signal of the polarization sensitive array is proved to have trilinear model characteristics. The blind parallel factor（PARAFAC） signal detection algorithm for the polarization sensitive array is proposed. The trilinear alternating least square （TALS） algorithm is used to abtain the source matrix, and then the matrix is judged. Simulation results show that the bit error rate （BER） of the detection algorithm is close to that of the non-blind decorrelating method and the algorithm works well under the array error condition. BER difference between the non-blind method and this algorithm is less than 2 dB under a high SNR. The algorithm is blind and robust. The channel fading, the direction of arrive（DOA） imformation and the polarization information are needless in the algorithm.
文摘The high resolution of DOA（direction of arrival） estimation could be obtained by using the min-norm algorithm. In this paper, the expression of the min-norm spatial spectrum based on acoustic vector-sensor（AVS） linear arrays was presented and simulation study was carried out. Results of simulations indicated that left/right ambiguity could be removed and better performance for DOA estimation was obtainable when dealing with sources close to endfire than using pressure hydrophone linear arrays, and the interelement spacing was allowed to exceed the half-wavelength upper limit. A three-element vector hydrophone linear array with two meters interspace was designed. The AVS experiment was carried out at Songhua Lake in Jinlin Province. Experimental results show a high resolution tracking of targets can be obtained using the rain-norm algorithm.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62022091,61921001).
文摘A dimension decomposition(DIDE)method for multiple incoherent source localization using uniform circular array(UCA)is proposed.Due to the fact that the far-field signal can be considered as the state where the range parameter of the nearfield signal is infinite,the algorithm for the near-field source localization is also suitable for estimating the direction of arrival(DOA)of far-field signals.By decomposing the first and second exponent term of the steering vector,the three-dimensional(3-D)parameter is transformed into two-dimensional(2-D)and onedimensional(1-D)parameter estimation.First,by partitioning the received data,we exploit propagator to acquire the noise subspace.Next,the objective function is established and partial derivative is applied to acquire the spatial spectrum of 2-D DOA.At last,the estimated 2-D DOA is utilized to calculate the phase of the decomposed vector,and the least squares(LS)is performed to acquire the range parameters.In comparison to the existing algorithms,the proposed DIDE algorithm requires neither the eigendecomposition of covariance matrix nor the search process of range spatial spectrum,which can achieve satisfactory localization and reduce computational complexity.Simulations are implemented to illustrate the advantages of the proposed DIDE method.Moreover,simulations demonstrate that the proposed DIDE method can also classify the mixed far-field and near-field signals.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6192100162022091)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2017JJ3368).
文摘In this paper,we propose a beam space coversion(BSC)-based approach to achieve a single near-field signal local-ization under uniform circular array(UCA).By employing the centro-symmetric geometry of UCA,we apply BSC to extract the two-dimensional(2-D)angles of near-field signal in the Van-dermonde form,which allows for azimuth and elevation angle estimation by utilizing the improved estimation of signal para-meters via rotational invariance techniques(ESPRIT)algorithm.By substituting the calculated 2-D angles into the direction vec-tor of near-field signal,the range parameter can be conse-quently obtained by the 1-D multiple signal classification(MU-SIC)method.Simulations demonstrate that the proposed al-gorithm can achieve a single near-field signal localization,which can provide satisfactory performance and reduce computational complexity.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62261047,62066040)the Foundation of Top-notch Talents by Education Department of Guizhou Province of China (KY[2018]075)+3 种基金the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province of China (ZK[2022]557,[2020]1Y004)the Science and Technology Research Program of the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (KJQN202200637)PhD Research Start-up Foundation of Tongren University (trxyDH1710)Tongren Science and Technology Planning Project ((2018)22)。
文摘In this paper, a two-dimensional(2D) DOA estimation algorithm of coherent signals with a separated linear acoustic vector-sensor(AVS) array consisting of two sparse AVS arrays is proposed. Firstly,the partitioned spatial smoothing(PSS) technique is used to construct a block covariance matrix, so as to decorrelate the coherency of signals. Then a signal subspace can be obtained by singular value decomposition(SVD) of the covariance matrix. Using the signal subspace, two extended signal subspaces are constructed to compensate aperture loss caused by PSS.The elevation angles can be estimated by estimation of signal parameter via rotational invariance techniques(ESPRIT) algorithm. At last, the estimated elevation angles can be used to estimate automatically paired azimuth angles. Compared with some other ESPRIT algorithms, the proposed algorithm shows higher estimation accuracy, which can be proved through the simulation results.
基金supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2020YFB1804901State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety(Contract:No.RCS2022ZT 015)Special Key Project of Technological Innovation and Application Development of Chongqing Science and Technology Bureau(cstc2019jscx-fxydX0053).
文摘Spatial covariance matrix(SCM) is essential in many multi-antenna systems such as massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO). For multi-antenna systems operating at millimeter-wave bands, hybrid analog-digital structure has been widely adopted to reduce the cost of radio frequency chains.In this situation, signals received at the antennas are unavailable to the digital receiver, and as a consequence, traditional sample average approach cannot be used for SCM reconstruction in hybrid multi-antenna systems. To address this issue, beam sweeping algorithm(BSA) which can reconstruct the SCM effectively for a hybrid uniform linear array, has been proposed in our previous works. However, direct extension of BSA to a hybrid uniform circular array(UCA)will result in a huge computational burden. To this end, a low-complexity approach is proposed in this paper. By exploiting the symmetry features of SCM for the UCA, the number of unknowns can be reduced significantly and thus the complexity of reconstruction can be saved accordingly. Furthermore, an insightful analysis is also presented in this paper, showing that the reduction of the number of unknowns can also improve the accuracy of the reconstructed SCM. Simulation results are also shown to demonstrate the proposed approach.
文摘In array signal processing, 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation is required to determine DOA of multiple signals. The circular array of sensors is found to possess several nice properties for DOA estimation of wide-band sources. C. U. Padmini, et al.(1994) had suggested that the frequency-direction ambiguity in azimuth estimation of wide-baud signals received by a uniform linear array (ULA) can be avoided by using a circular array, even without the use of any delay elements. In 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band signals, the authors find that it is impossible to avoid the ambiguity in source frequency-elevation angle pairs using a circular array. In this paper, interpolated circular arrays are used to perform 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band sources. In the estimation, a large aperture circular array (Υ】λmin/2) is found to possess superior resolution capability and robustness.
基金supported by the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No.T0102)
文摘A low-sidelobe circularly-polarized(CP) microstrip patch array for 2.4 GHz radio frequency identification(RFID) readers is presented.The antenna array with a Chebyshev current distribution is composed of 6 microstrip elements.The CP operation is obtained by the quasi-square patch with difference in lengths of the two sides.The antenna has been investigated numerically and experimentally.Measured results show that the array has a Chebyshev pattern with the sidelobe level of-23 dB, the half-power beamwidth of 16° and an impedance bandwidth(S11≤-10 dB) of 130 MHz, which is suitable for RFID reader applications.
文摘The circular sector patch antenna is studied in C-band (4 GHz - 8 GHz). In this paper, we present steps of designing the circular sector antenna then a comparison with a rectangular antenna in literature. High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) software is used to compute the gain, axial ratio, radiation pattern, and return loss S11 of proposed antenna. Based on the designed patch antenna, many phased arrays will be simulated using HFSS. The impact of distance between element, number of element and phase will be checked. Obtained results are analyzed and compared with literature.
文摘Naturally suited array geometry for 360° coverage is the uniform circular array (UCA). A comparison of two types of uniform circular array configurations is presented in this paper. Due to its symmetrical geometry UCA is always targeted which results in minimal change inside lobe levels and beam width when scanned by a phased array antenna. Particle Swarm Optimization and Cuckoo algorithm are used for the calculation of complex weights of the array elements. Comparisons are drawn in the context of adaptive beam forming capabilities. Obtained results suggest that planar uniform circular array (9:10) using Cuckoo algorithm, has better beam forming properties with also reduced side lobe levels when compared to other geometry.
文摘The influence of a rigid spherical baffle on the response of a uniform circular microphone array （UCA） is analyzed and two eigen-beam beamforming arrays are designed in the eigen-beam subspaee derived from the soundfield decomposition. Expressions of white noise gain （WNG） and directivity index （DI） are derived for the designed arrays. Performance analyses are carried out for the designed arrays and compared between those of the delay-and-sum beamforming array using UCA with and without a rigid sphere. Computer simulations demonstrate that the designed arrays have frequency-independent directivity with the cost of reduced robustness at low frequency band. The delay-and-sum beamforming array has constant WNG at all frequencies, while its directivity of which is reduced at low frequency band. The rigid sphere can improve the robustness for all the arrays.
文摘In this paper,a method for designing supermassive sparse phased arrays(SMSPAs)known as the unitary modified matrix enhancement and matrix pencil(UMMEMP)method is proposed.In this method,an eigenvalue pairing method,which is inspired by the modified MEMP,effectively pairs the repeated eigenvalues intractable in the unitary matrix pencil method,and it is more effective in determining the locations of elements in the sparse array.Three numerical examples and a full-wave validation are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method,implemented via SMSPA,in achieving low sidelobe level wide-angle scanning radiation patterns,circular flattop radiation patterns,and ultra wide-angle scanning radiation patterns.
基金This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U19B2028).
文摘A scanning and uniform array architecture with large spacing,low complexity and high scalability is presented for high integration massive array applications.It is constructed by offset phase center elements arranged in a uniform and regular way,but its spacing can be larger than that of traditional arrays.An ideal model of the offset phase center element is established and its far-field distribution is derived.To suppress grating lobes,the phase center of any element is designed to be movable without changing its physical position.Using genetic algorithm(GA),a new constraint condition limiting the number of phase center changes is proposed to solve the objective function of the minimum values of grating lobes(GLs)and side lobes(SLs).It is shown that the optimal results can be achieved by two changes of phase centers.A multimode circular patch is developed and designed,and characteristics of the offset phase center are analyzed and verified.A prototype array of 12×12 offset phase center elements is implemented based on multi-mode circular patches.Full wave simulation results of radiation patterns show that the level of grating lobes is suppressed at least 7dB with 1.12λ spacing,while the scanning angle is 20°.
基金supported by the Scientifc Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department(No.Y201225848)the Scientifc and Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi(No.2013124)
文摘A uniform array of scalar-sensors with intersensor spacings over a large aperture size generally offers enhanced resolution and source localization accuracy,but it may also lead to cyclic ambiguity.By exploiting the polarization information of impinging waves,an electromagnetic vector-sensor array outperforms the unpolarized scalar-sensor array in resolving this cyclic ambiguity.However,the electromagnetic vector-sensor array usually consists of cocentered orthogonal loops and dipoles（COLD）,which is easily subjected to mutual coupling across these cocentered dipoles/loops.As a result,the source localization performance of the COLD array may substantially degrade rather than being improved.This paper proposes a new source localization method with a non-cocentered orthogonal loop and dipole（NCOLD）array.The NCOLD array contains only one dipole or loop on each array grid,and the intersensor spacings are larger than a half-wavelength.Therefore,unlike the COLD array,these well separated dipoles/loops minimize the mutual coupling effects and extend the spatial aperture as well.With the NCOLD array,the proposed method can effciently exploit the polarization information to offer high localization precision.
文摘A new radial-line helical array (RLHA) using dual-branch helical antennas has been designed for improving the power capacity of RLHAs. The helical element is cavity-backed to lower the mutual coupling and its power capacity is higher than the conventional ones. The components of the proposed array are discussed and the power capacity is obtained by simulation. Compared with the typical RLHAs, the proposed sub-array has not only higher power capacity but also uses fewer elements. Experimentally, the measured results of an array prototype indicate that high gain as well as circular polarization has been successfully achieved.
基金supported by the Special Foundation for State Major Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 40827003)
文摘This work investigates the direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation for a uniform circular acoustic Vector-Sensor Array(UCAVSA) mounted around a cylindrical baffle.The total pressure field and the total particle velocity field near the surface of the cylindrical baffle are analyzed theoretically by applying the method of spatial Fourier transform.Then the so-called modal vector-sensor array signal processing algorithm,which is based on the decomposed wavefield representations,for the UCAVSA mounted around the cylindrical baffle is proposed.Simulation and experimental results show that the UCAVSA mounted around the cylindrical baffle has distinct advantages over the same manifold of traditional uniform circular pressure-sensor array(UCPSA).It is pointed out that the acoustic Vector-Sensor(AVS) could be used under the condition of the cylindrical baffle and that the UCAVSA mounted around the cylindrical baffle could also combine the anti-noise performance of the AVS with spatial resolution performance of array system by means of modal vector-sensor array signal processing algorithms.
基金This project was supported by the Graduate Innovation Laboratory of Jilin University(502039)Jilin Science Committee of China(20030519)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (69872012)the Foundation of Nanjing Institute of Technology.
文摘A joint estimation algorithm of direction of arrival （DOA）, frequency, and polarization, based on fourth-order cumulants and uniform circular array （UCA） of trimmed vector sensors is presented for narrowband non-Gaussian signals. The proposed approach, which is suitable for applications in arbitrary Gaussian noise environments, gives a closed-form representation of the estimated parameters, without spectral peak searching. An efficient method is also provided for elimination of cyclic phase ambiguities. Simulations are presented to show the performance of the algorithm.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61971217, 61601167)Jiangsu Planned Project for Postdoctoral Research Funds (2020Z013)+2 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M681585)the fund of State Key Laboratory of Complex Electromagnetic Environment Effects on Electronics and Information System (CEMEE 2021Z0101B)the fund of State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea (Hainan University)(MRUKF2021033)。
文摘In this paper, a low complexity direction of arrival(DOA) estimation method for massive uniform circular array(UCA) with single snapshot is proposed.Firstly, the coarse DOAs are estimated by finding the peaks from the circular convolution between a fixed coefficient vector and the received data vector.Thereafter, in order to refine coarse DOA estimates, we reconstruct the direction matrix based on the coarse DOA estimations and take the first order Taylor expansion with DOA estimation offsets into account.Finally, the refined estimations are obtained by compensating the offsets, which are obtained via least squares(LS) without any complex searches.In addition, the refinement can be iteratively implemented to enhance the estimation results.Compared to the offset search method, the proposed method achieves a better estimation performance while requiring lower complexity.Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘A new Direction Of Arrival （DOA） estimation algorithm for wideband sources based on Uniform Circular Array （UCA） is presented via analyzing widcband performance of the general ESPRIT. The algorithm effectively improves the wideband performance of ESPRIT based on the interpolation principium and UCA-ESPRIT. The simulated results by computer demonstrate its efficiency.
基金supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi(2021JZ-18)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China(2021A1515010812)+1 种基金the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University(2021D04)the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities,and the Innovation Fund of Xidian University。
文摘Orbital angular momentum(OAM)at radio frequency(RF)has attracted more and more attention as a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal OAM modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectral efficiency(SE).However,the precondition for maintaining the orthogonality among different OAM modes is perfect alignment of the transmit and receive uniform circular arrays(UCAs),which is difficult to be satisfied in practical wireless communication scenarios.Therefore,to achieve available multi-mode OAM broadband wireless communication,we first investigate the effect of oblique angles on the transmission performance of the multi-mode OAM broadband system in the non-parallel misalignment case.Then,we compare the UCA-based RF analog and baseband digital transceiver structures and corresponding beam steering schemes.Mathematical analysis and numerical simulations validate that the SE of the misaligned multi-mode OAM broadband system is quite low,while analog and digital beam steering(DBS)both can significantly improve the SE of the system.However,DBS can obtain higher SE than analog beam steering especially when the bandwidth and the number of array elements are large,which validates that the baseband digital transceiver with DBS is more suitable for multi-mode OAM broadband wireless communication systems in practice.
