Flower‐shaped ultra‐wideband fractal antenna

A flower‐shaped ultra‐wideband fractal antenna is presented. It comprises a fourth iterative flower‐shaped radiator, asymmetrical stub‐loaded feeding line, and coplanar quarter elliptical ground planes. A wide operating band of 12.12 GHz (4.58‐16.7 GHz) for S ₁₁ ≤ ? 10 dB is achieved along with an overall antenna footprint of 15.7 × 11.4 mm². In addition, other desirable characteristics, that is, omnidirectional radiation patterns, peak gain upto 5 dB, and fidelity factor more than 75% are achieved. A good agreement exists between the simulation and measured results. The obtained results illustrate that this antenna has wide operating range and compact dimensions than available structures.     

Chirping techniques for enhancing the performance of SOA-based UWB over fiber systems: An experimental demonstration

A phaser-based processing technique was adopted in an UWB over fiber system employing SOA. The target is to simultaneously reduce the ASE noise impact and nonlinear effects inherent to optical amplification. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of chirping in terms of cross correlation and bit error rate.     

基于物联网的智能室内定位送水系统设计

随着物联网技术的发展,机器人已广泛应用于生产和生活之中。自动送水机器人作为一种智能饮水系统,可应用于办公区域、医院、家庭等多种场所,智能化地为人类提供饮水服务。本文设计了一款智能室内定位送水系统,可以实现水杯定位、转向前行、自动添注水等功能。系统以UP Squared处理器为设计平台,扩展了UWB定位、Zigbee无线传输、陀螺仪、机械臂等功能模块。采用MPU6050 模块进行旋转角度感知,PID算法控制机器人旋转；基于电流磁效应和电磁感应定律感知水杯位置；采用超声波模块对出水口上升的高度和水杯中水位进行检测。通过实验测试了系统的定位、方向调整、测距、功耗等多项参数以及送水全过程,结果表明,系统具有定位准确、转向快速平稳和功耗低等特点,达到实际应用于室内智能定位送水的技术要求。     

Design and investigations on a compact,UWB, monopole antenna with reconfigurable band notches for 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN and 5.5 GHz Wi‐MAX bands

This article represents a microstrip line–fed novel circular monopole antenna with ultra‐wideband (UWB) characteristics. The compact antenna provides reconfigurable notches at WLAN (5.2/5.8 GHz) and Wi‐MAX (5.5 GHz) frequency bands. The band rejection is achieved by etching an open‐ended L‐shaped slot in the ground plane, which effectively mitigates the interference between WLAN, Wi‐MAX, and UWB systems with an effective patch area of 36.26%. The proposed antenna operates from 3.05 to 12.11 GHz with VSWR 2 except at stopband (3.89‐5.93 GHz) to filter the WLAN and Wi‐MAX signals. The simulated return loss, gain, and radiation pattern of the proposed antenna has been experimentally verified with the fabricated one which holds a good agreement.     

用于矿山等极端环境中的高精度定位算法

高精度室内定位技术在矿山、建筑、施工等多种极端环境下都有需求。基于超宽带通信(Ultra Wideband,UWB)的室内定位技术能够提供较高的定位精度,但超宽带信号易受到障碍物的干扰,并且在类似矿山等极端环境中,障碍物不可避免。因此,超宽带非视线传输(Non-Line-of-Sight,NLoS)测距成为当前的一个研究热点。当前研究大多集中在识别和消除非视线传输对超宽带测距的影响上,实际应用中,大多数情形下超宽带信号根本无法穿透障碍物,会导致定位标签只能够与2个或1个信标节点通信,但完成三边定位至少需要3个信标节点。为此,提出了一种基于目标行为分析的定位算法,该算法能够在短时间内仅剩余一个信标节点与标签通信时,也可实现高精度定位。该算法以超宽带通信为基础,使用信号飞行时间(Time of Flight,TOF)算法测距并定位。通过分析信号正常时的目标运动轨迹来判断其速度和方向,当信号不正常时(可通信的信标节点减少),可利用预测的速度和方向参数来实现辅助定位。将该算法部署在一个基于超宽带定位的系统中进行了测试,结果表明:当能够与标签通信并完成TOF算法的信标节点数量少于3个时,基于NLoS传输识别和消除的算法无法完成定位,而基于目标行为分析的定位算法依然能够实现定位,在单信标节点区域的平均定位误差为0.93 m,最大误差为1.41 m,在2个信标节点测距的区域,平均定位误差为0.64 m,最大误差为1.2 m。     

超宽带无线接入系统在矿井通讯中应用的研究

本文介绍一种超宽带无线接入技术的特点和接收、发射部分的基本结构。通过对矿井下的具体环境和UWB无线接入系统在井下应用存在问题的分析,证明该技术在煤矿井下应用的实际可行性。     

超宽带引信抗干扰性能分析与仿真

超宽带引信具有良好的抗干扰性能。为了定量分析超宽带引信的抗干扰性能,基于相关检测方法,分别对跳时调制信号、等间隔信号在不同干扰信号下进行分析和仿真,得出在不同干扰信号下的仿真输出。通过对两种不同发射信号的抗干扰性能的对比,证明跳时调制信号的抗干扰性能优于等间隔信号,经过跳时调制的超宽带信号能够有效提高引信的作战效能。     

采用三次通信的TOF与TDOA联合定位算法

通常基于超宽带(UWB)的定位系统采用的主要技术是TOA和TDOA算法,但是TOA算法定位速度低,TDOA算法定位精度不稳定,这些情况均限制了它们在UWB定位系统中的应用。为了权衡这两种算法在定位速度和精度方面的不足,提出了一种新的TOF与TDOA联合定位算法(CTT)。该算法仅需要3次UWB通信便可测量TDOA算法所需的所有时间差信息和一个TOF距离值,并可以此计算出该定位区域内所有基站与单个标签的距离,定位速度比TOA算法提升至少50%。使用DW1000分别对TOA、TDOA与CTT算法进行定位精度对比,结果表明CTT算法在二维情况下的平均定位误差20 cm,标准差10 cm,接近于TOA的精度并解决了TDOA算法精度不稳定的问题。     

Detection of interdependent primary systems using wideband cognitive radios

Cognitive radios (CRs) may be sharing multiple frequency bands with primary systems if the CR is a wideband or an ultra wideband (UWB) system. In that case, the CR should ensure all the coexisting primary systems in these bands are detected before it can start data transmission. In this work, we study the primary system detection performance of a wideband CR assuming that there are multiple coexisting primary systems and that these primary systems may be jointly active. Accordingly, we consider the implementation of energy detection scheme in multiple bands followed by two detection methods: (i) a maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) based detection (i.e., joint detection) that takes into account the statistics of simultaneously operating systems in independent bands and (ii) a Neyman–Pearson (NP) test based detection that optimizes the threshold values independently in each band (i.e., independent detection). For a simpler implementation of the independent detection, we show that the threshold values obtained from joint detection can be used in order to achieve the optimum NP test based independent detection results. In addition to quantifying the gain of joint detection over independent detection in terms of probabilities of false alarm and detection for practical scenarios, we also present the operation capability of CRs in terms of the fractions of time the CR can access the channel without interfering with the primary systems. The results are important for the practical implementation of multiband detection when the primary systems are known to be interdependent.     

Application of power transformation and moments in time based UWB ranging

For ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging, TOA estimation with the energy detection (ED) receiver is to detect the energy sample that contains the first path (FP) signal in dense multipath. Threshold crossing (TC) is used frequently. However, it is difficult to determine the threshold. Some threshold setting methods are based on constant false alarm rate (CFAR) and the chi-squared distribution. However, the distribution is complicated. Moreover, it depends on the degree of freedom (DOF). If the DOF used is wrong, it will degrade the detection performance. The study bypasses the distribution. We first examine the distribution of the output of the ED receiver after power transformation. Based on the new characteristics of the transformed data and approximate distributions, we propose some practical TOA estimation methods. Similarly, the moments of the output of the ED receiver, such as the second or one-third order moments, are also analysed and used. The proposed methods are easy to implement and can achieve about the same ranging performance with methods based on the chi-squared distribution. We provide both theoretical and simulation results to prove their effectiveness.