TY - GEN
T1 - Monopulse switching to cancel phase offset in array antenna comprising multiple COTS SDRs
AU - Miyazawa, Masato
AU - Mitsugi, Jin
AU - Kawakita, Yuusuke
AU - Ichikawa, Haruhisa
PY - 2016/11/21
Y1 - 2016/11/21
N2 - This paper proposes a phase offset canceler for an array antenna, which comprises multiple low-cost commercial of the shelf (COTS) software defined radio (SDR) devices. The main challenge is the phase synchronization of SDR devices because each SDR devices has its own phase offset when it produces IQ stream. We devise a simple yet effective method to cancel the phase offset of individual SDR device using a double-pole, double-throw (DPDT) switch which is implemented between antenna and SDR device. The DPDT switch is controlled according to the frame timing of each IQ stream to produce two set of measurements, from which we can compute angle of arrival(AoA) with a simple signal processing. We refer this mechanism as 'Monopulse Switching'. We evaluated the working principle experimentally to reveal Monopulse switching successfully cancel phase offset to detect AoA without any initial calibration and achieves 2.8 degree measurement accuracy.
AB - This paper proposes a phase offset canceler for an array antenna, which comprises multiple low-cost commercial of the shelf (COTS) software defined radio (SDR) devices. The main challenge is the phase synchronization of SDR devices because each SDR devices has its own phase offset when it produces IQ stream. We devise a simple yet effective method to cancel the phase offset of individual SDR device using a double-pole, double-throw (DPDT) switch which is implemented between antenna and SDR device. The DPDT switch is controlled according to the frame timing of each IQ stream to produce two set of measurements, from which we can compute angle of arrival(AoA) with a simple signal processing. We refer this mechanism as 'Monopulse Switching'. We evaluated the working principle experimentally to reveal Monopulse switching successfully cancel phase offset to detect AoA without any initial calibration and achieves 2.8 degree measurement accuracy.
KW - Array antenna
KW - Coherent receiver
KW - Complex monopulse
KW - Software Defined Radio
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U2 - 10.1109/RFID-TA.2016.7750752
DO - 10.1109/RFID-TA.2016.7750752
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85006786215
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications, RFID-TA 2016
SP - 65
EP - 70
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications, RFID-TA 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications, RFID-TA 2016
Y2 - 21 September 2016 through 23 September 2016
ER -