Microstrip adaptive array antenna

A planar adaptive array of three microstrip patch antennas consisting of a central active microstrip antenna and two symmetrical lateral passive antennas is used to steer the beam. An electronic beam scanning of ±20° can be achieved with the control of reactive loads located into the lateral patches     

Tamed adaptive antenna array

The adaptive array under directionaily constrained minimization of power (DCMP) algorithm is improved by adding a "pseudonoise." It is effective to protect the desired signal from cancellation or distortion in such cases as 1) where a coherent interference is incident, or 2) where the desired signal direction for the constraint contains some pointing error, or 3) when the desired signal is broad band, The optimum amount of pseudonoise to be added is also discussed and its formula is given. This system is named "tamed adaptive antenna" since its killing capability is somewhat moderated so as not to hurt the desired signal.     

Partial adaptive nulling on a monopulse phased array antenna system

A partial phase-only nulling (PPON) algorithm has been developed and evaluated on a 496-element monopulse phased array antenna system which employs five-bit phase shifters. Using this PPON algorithm allows nulls in the far-field pattern to be steered to the desired directions for a phased array equipped with low-resolution phase shifters to perform simultaneous nulling in the sum and two difference patterns in the environment of multiple jammers. Simulated and experimental patterns are illustrated     

24 GHz active retrodirective antenna array

A 24 GHz active Van Atta planar antenna array proposed for increasing the vehicle radar echo in a vehicle collision avoidance system is designed and demonstrated. The antenna array contains two parallel linear sub-arrays. Each sub-array is composed of four receiving microstrip antennas, four transmitting microstrip antennas and four transistor amplifiers. At the angles of -40°<&thetas;<40°, except those very close to the specular direction (&thetas;=0°), the measured backscattering field levels of the fabricated array have variations <3 dB and are at least 10 dB higher than those of a metal plate of the same size     

An adaptive antenna array under directional constraint

The concept of the adaptive system working on the principle of minimizing the output power under the constrained response to specified directions is introduced. Theoretical analysis and computer simulation experiments on this directional constraint system are also presented. By comparison with the computer experiment, the differential equation approach is shown to be useful to predict the behavior of the system. The effect of error in setting the constraint direction is investigated, and it is demonstrated that the system is not very sensitive to such error. This margin can be made even greater by adopting the double directional constraints system. This system is also analyzed theoretically and experimented by computer simulation. History of output power components during adaptation is shown, which enables the comprehension of the behavior of the system.     

Application of adaptive array antenna to a TDMA cellular/PCS system

This article discusses the use of an adaptive array antenna technology in a TDMA cellular/personal communications services (PCS) system and demonstrates that the adaptive array antenna improves cell coverage, provides better signal quality, and reduces cost of deployment of cellular/PCS service in a given area     

有源相控阵天线的近场校准

为实现对相控阵天线的校准,降低幅相误差和阵元失效对天线性能的影响,提出了一种考虑互耦效应的近场校准方法。在利用近场扫描法完成逐一通道校准的基础上,使用旋转矢量法进行二次校准。在应用旋转矢量法（ REV)时,为使被测信号的变化明显,将大规模相控阵天线分为中间、边缘区域进行分区校准。通过二次校准可判定阵元是否失效,提高相控阵天线的幅相一致性;通过分区校准减小阵元间互耦的影响,缩短校准时间。仿真结果表明：此方法用于大型相控阵的校准具有较高的准确性,可改善校准结果。     

Integrated active antenna array using unidirectional dielectricradiators

In this paper, design considerations and experimental investigations of an integrated active antenna for space power combining that makes use of unidirectional dielectric radiators (UDRs) are presented and discussed. Attractive electrical performance stemming from proprieties of nonradiating dielectric waveguide structures is used to design a prototype at a frequency of 14 GHz. A UDR feed circuit is implemented by microstrip lines and aperture-coupling is studied experimentally for arrays of two, four and eight radiators. Measurements show high coupling and radiation efficiencies of the proposed excitation method. A power-combining efficiency of 89% was measured and a gain of 23.1 dBi was achieved for an antenna with eight radiators and four amplifiers. It is also shown that such a circuit configuration allows the combination of planar Ku-band monolithic hybrid microwave integrated circuit and UDR components in flexible design of active array antennas     

Planar antenna array control with genetic algorithms and adaptive array theory

Planar arrays are successfully employed in radar and communication systems in order to allow three-dimensional-scanning. In the framework of real-time control of antenna arrays, starting from the Applebaum theory, this paper presents an approach based on a customized genetic algorithm aimed at adaptively eliminating interfering signals. Successful applications are presented in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in term of performances and computational complexity.     

Optimum beamforming for pre-FFT OFDM adaptive antenna array

It is well known that orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is robust to frequency-selective fading in wireless channels due to the exploitation of a guard interval that is inserted at the beginning of each OFDM symbol. However, once delayed signals beyond the guard interval are introduced in a channel with a large delay spread, intersymbol interference causes a severe degradation in the transmission performance. In this paper, we propose a novel pre-fast Fourier transform (FFT) OFDM adaptive antenna array, which requires only one FFT processor at a receiver, for suppressing such delayed signals. We derive the optimum weight set for beamformers based on the maximum signal-to-noise-and-interference power ratio (Max-SNIR) and the minimum mean square error (mmse) criteria, respectively. In addition, we propose a novel mmse-criterion-based commutative optimization scheme, which is more robust to the estimation error of the channel state information. Furthermore, we show the equivalence between the Max-SNIR-criterion-based scheme and the proposed commutative optimization scheme. Computer simulation results show its good performance even in channels where directions of arrival of arriving waves are randomly determined.     

窄波束全向接收的自适应天线阵研究

为了实现对短波频段全空域低信噪比信号的良好接收，本文提出了一种窄波束全向接收的知适应天线阵。文中首先简要回顾了自适应天线阵的基本理论，并针地短波波段频程较宽的特点，提出了一种接收信号频率决定阵元间距的阵元间距动态可变组阵方案，文末通过计算机仿真比较了该方案实现的窄波束全向接收自适应天线阵和常规短波天线阵的性能。     

A lens antenna array with adaptive optical processing

This paper presents an X band smart antenna array in which adaptive processing of the received signals is performed by dynamic holographic optical circuitry. The optical circuitry adaptively extracts the principal component of the received signal space, that is the strongest first-order independent temporal component of the ensemble of received signals. The adaptive receiver system can be used, for example, to mitigate multipath interference effects and can separate one received signal from another even though their power spectra may entirely overlap. A prototype two-channel system is designed to fit in a standard-size briefcase and consume less than 50 W of power. The input to the system are modulated waves with a carrier in X band and the output is an electronic demodulated signal. Three major components of this system are described in detail: (1) the quasi-optical lens antenna array front end with angle-of-arrival preprocessing and downconversion, (2) the two-channel electrooptic modulation and optical carrier suppression stage, and (3) the smart optical processor (auto-tuning filter). Component and end-to-end system measurements give quantitative indicators for the usefulness of optical processing in wireless communications     

Co-channel interference canceller using CMA adaptive array antenna

A co-channel interference canceller that uses a constant modulus algorithm (CMA) adaptive array antenna is presented. In this canceller, when a CMA adaptive array antenna captures a co-channel interference signal, a replica of this signal is generated and then eliminated from a received signal, thus a desired signal can be obtained. Computer simulation results show that the proposed canceller can effectively reduce co-channel interference     

The tripole antenna: An adaptive array with full polarization flexibility

The performance of an adaptive array using three mutually perpendicular dipoles (a "tripole") is studied. A desired signal and an interference signal, each with arbitrary angle of arrival and polarization, are assumed incident on the array. Uncorrelated thermal noise is also assumed present on each element signal. The output desired signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) is computed as a function of the signal arrival angles and polarizations. It is shown that for most angles of arrival and polarizations, the array has an excellent ability to protect a desired signal from interference. Certain special cases where the performance is not good are discussed in detail.     

Nonlinear two element active antenna array stability analysis

Closed form analytical equations for the stability condition for the two modes available within a two element active antenna linear array as the element separation is increased are presented for the first time. A mathematical explanation to the mode swap characteristics first reported by Stephan and Young (1988) is given with a prediction of within which mode the array will operate as a function of element separation. This knowledge is imperative since the array far-field radiation pattern is different depending on the operating mode, and so a prediction method is desirable (i.e. boresight null or peak). The identical element case is considered, although the analysis can be extended to incorporate similar though non-identical elements     

Modeling of active antenna array coupling effects-load variationmethod

This paper presents a simple method for the calculation of the frequency and power variation of an active antenna operated in the presence of a reflecting surface. The situation modeled accounts for interdependent amplitude and phase dynamics and also allows for the extraction of active antenna array coupling coefficients. Analytical and experimental results are presented for both frequency and power variations of an individual element when operated in a strongly coupled imaged array environment. Here the nearest neighbor coupling is shown to be the dominant coupling mechanism     

天线罩对自适应阵列天线性能的影响分析

建立了可受变化干扰源激发的阵列天线和天线罩系统分析模型,分别通过阵列天线接收到的干扰源的辐射功率以及阵列榆入矩阵的相关矩阵特征值分布两种方案,对天线罩的影响效应进行了评估.结果表明,天线罩的存在对阵列天线的自适应性能明显降低.采用物理光学法分析了天线罩存在时天线阵的方向图,并利用闪烁瓣的观点对其结论进行了解释.     

抗干扰自适应天线阵波束形成零陷算法

针对传统的功率倒置算法应用在卫星信号接收时,不能在有用信号方向上形成主波束,不具有提高信噪比的功能,提出一种新的波束形成零陷算法,提高了该功能。通过软件仿真验证,结果表明提出的新算法克服了功率倒置算法在有用信号方向不能形成主波束的不足,不仅能在干扰方向形成更深的＂零陷＂,而且具有更高的输出信噪比。     

A high-speed adaptive antenna array with simultaneous multibeam-forming capability

A new type of adaptive beamforming antenna system architecture is proposed for multichannel wireless communications. Multibeam communication with high data throughput is accomplished using the proposed beamformer architecture. The system consists of analog mixers, a multitone direct digital synthesizer (DDS), and a digital signal processor (DSP) controller. The essential idea of multibeam forming is based on a multitone weighting scheme combined with analog-digital hybrid signal processing. While the real-time multibeam construction is realized by the analog mixer circuits and a DDS, the complicated adaptive beamforming and direction-of-arrival estimation algorithms are carried out by the DSP. In this architecture, only one beamformer circuit is required to handle multiple beams, leading to significant reduction in hardware counts. A 5.8-GHz eight-element adaptive beamforming array successfully demonstrates two-beam simultaneous beamforming with less than three degrees of peak and steering errors and more than 20-dB interference suppression. The test-bed exhibits successful two-channel data recovery at 25-Mb/s data throughput in each channel with binary phase-shift keying modulation, for simultaneous dual-beam reception. The bit-error-rate measurement validates the robustness of the communication quality under strong interferences.